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Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Howth, Dublin
4 famous people come from Howth, Stuart Townsend the best known
Stuart Townsend, the Irish actor, is the most widely known, written about in 30 languages. Second and third on the list are Ruairi O'Connor and Sonya McGinn. For every 10,000 residents there are 4.9 on the list, well above the typical Co. Dublin town’s 2.2. 2 of them are performers, more than in any other field.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Stuart Townsend
30 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1935
John Harbison
Youngest
1991
Ruairi O'Connor
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
The best known
Born in Howth
Two of the three are performers.
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Through the years
When Howth’s famous people were born
Most were born since 1970 (3); the busiest decade is the 1970s (2).
Film, TV & StageSportsScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Howth is known for
Film, TV & Stage leads the fields, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Howth
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Clontarf East lists the most people: 25.
Questions about famous people from Howth
Who is the most famous person from Howth?
Stuart Townsend (Irish actor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 30 languages. Next come Ruairi O'Connor and Sonya McGinn.
How many famous people were born in Howth?
4 people born in Howth have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 7 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Howth 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 Howth?
John Harbison, born in 1935. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
Who counts as from Howth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Howth’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)
- Bram Stoker: unidentified photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Seán Haughey: Xavier Lejeune, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Duffy: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denise Mitchell: Houses of the Oireachtas, 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).