#1Famous people · Lucan, Dublin
6 famous people were born in Lucan from 1891 to 1998
The best known is the Irish politician John Curran, with articles in 6 languages. Michael Fitzgerald is second and John Francis Norton third. 3 of them were born between 1922 and 1969, more than in any other period. Births since 1970 account for 2 of the names.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
John Curran
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1891
John Francis Norton
Youngest
1998
Ciaran Kelly
Most common field
Sports
2 people
What stands out about Lucan’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Lucan’s famous people were born
The 1960s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineFaithWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Lucan
The three are covered in 6, 6 and 4 languages: John Curran, Michael Fitzgerald and John Francis Norton.
#1
#2Science & Medicine
Michael Fitzgerald
born 1946Irish psychiatrist and academic
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
JN#3
Faith
John Francis Norton
1891–1963Irish-born Roman Catholic bishop in Australia
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Lucan is known for
Athletes 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 Lucan
The rest number 3, with 2 athletes among them.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
5 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Lucan
Who is the most famous person from Lucan?
John Curran (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Michael Fitzgerald and John Francis Norton.
How many famous people were born in Lucan?
6 people born in Lucan have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 8 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Lucan known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 6. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lucan?
John Francis Norton, born in 1891. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Lucan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lucan’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 (6)
- John Curran: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Fitzgerald: Files2Fly, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Graham Norton: PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Collins: Bex Walton, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Guinness: User Morrison1917 on en.wikipedia, Public domain, 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).