Photo: Sheila1988 · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Esker is on the famous people list yet
Go 4 km to Clondalkin and the list grows to 12, with Graham Norton at the top. 81 towns across Co. Dublin can name a famous person born there. No town in Co. Dublin lists more than Dublin, with 3,775. After Dublin, the next longest list in Co. Dublin is Dún Laoghaire’s, with 37.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Esker’s neighbourhood and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Esker yet.
Famous people born near Esker
Clondalkin has the longest list next door: 12.
Questions about famous people from Esker
Who counts as from Esker?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Esker’s neighbourhood (its Census 2022 Small Areas), 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.
Why is someone missing?
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.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations, how many Wikipedia and sister-site articles cover each person) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). A birthplace is placed in a town by its own Wikidata item, its Logainm place name, or a point inside its CSO 2022 outline; a birth recorded only as one of the five cities stays on the city’s page. Ranked by the number of articles. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across Irish towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Graham Norton: PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Collins: Bex Walton, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Curran: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Boyle: Вячеслав Евдокимов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).