No town in Co. Dublin has more famous people than Dublin: 3,775

Oscar Wilde (Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 224 languages. Next come George Bernard Shaw and Jonathan Swift.

3,775 people born in Dublin have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4,306 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.

Among its famous people, athletes: 1,348 of the 3,775. That is 36% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.

Sigtrygg Silkbeard, born in 970. The youngest on the list was born in 2011.

People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dublin’s city boundary (the CSO’s 2022 city outline), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed. In Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford a birth recorded only as the city stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only people recorded as born in it.

Their Wikidata birthplace may be a county or just “Ireland”, a townland or village we don’t list, another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.