#1Politics & Law
Denise Mitchell
born 1976Irish politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Harmonstown, Dublin
Harmonstown is the birthplace of 4 famous people
The best known is the Irish politician Denise Mitchell, with articles in 5 languages. Aoife Dooley and Gary Shore follow. For every 10,000 residents there are 6.9 on the list, well above the typical Co. Dublin town’s 2.2. From Mairead Berry to Aoife Dooley, the births on the list run from 1975 to 1991.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Denise Mitchell
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1975
Mairead Berry
Youngest
1991
Aoife Dooley
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
The best known
Born in Harmonstown
First, Denise Mitchell (5 languages), then Aoife Dooley (3) and Gary Shore (2).
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#2Film, TV & Stage
Aoife Dooley
born 1991Irish comedian, author, illustrator
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
GS#3
Film, TV & Stage
Gary Shore
born 1981Irish film director
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Harmonstown’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1970s, with 2 people born in that decade.
Film, TV & StagePolitics & LawSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Harmonstown is known for
Performers are the most numerous, 2 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Harmonstown
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Clontarf East has the longest list next door: 25.
Questions about famous people from Harmonstown
Who is the most famous person from Harmonstown?
Denise Mitchell (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Aoife Dooley and Gary Shore.
How many famous people were born in Harmonstown?
4 people born in Harmonstown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Harmonstown known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Harmonstown?
Mairead Berry, born in 1975. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
Who counts as from Harmonstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Harmonstown’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 (7)
- Denise Mitchell: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aoife Dooley: LoopDaLoop, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bram Stoker: unidentified photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Seán Haughey: Xavier Lejeune, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Barney McKenna: Original uploader was Aloys Soullie at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Duffy: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex White: Department of Health, CC BY 2.0, 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).