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Photo: Sarah777 · Public domainFamous people · Knocklyon, Dublin
Knocklyon is the birthplace of 3 famous people
Articles in 7 languages make the Irish footballer Andrew Moran the best known. Robbie Gibbons is second and Ciarán Maher third. Nearby, Tallaght, 4 km away, lists 21, led by Robbie Keane. Over 41 years of births, the list goes from Ciarán Maher (1962) to Andrew Moran (2003).
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Andrew Moran
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1962
Ciarán Maher
Youngest
2003
Andrew Moran
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Knocklyon
All three are athletes.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Tallaght’s, at 21 names.
Questions about famous people from Knocklyon
Who is the most famous person from Knocklyon?
Andrew Moran (Irish footballer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Robbie Gibbons and Ciarán Maher.
How many famous people were born in Knocklyon?
3 people born in Knocklyon have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Knocklyon known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 3. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Knocklyon?
Ciarán Maher, born in 1962. The youngest on the list was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Knocklyon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Knocklyon’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)
- Robbie Keane: Michael Kranewitter, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave Allen: CBS Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Damien Duff: Mikhail Slain, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Byrne: Mattythewhite, 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).