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Famous people · Malahide, Co. Dublin
13 famous people come from Malahide, David Wilkins the best known
At the top of the list is the Irish sports sailor David Wilkins, covered in 10 languages. The list comes to 7 for every 10,000 residents, against 2.2 in the typical town in Co. Dublin. 4 of them were born since 1970. Over 210 years of births, the list goes from Thomas Talbot (1771) to Marianne Herbert (1981).
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
David Wilkins
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1771
Thomas Talbot
Youngest
1981
Marianne Herbert
Most common field
Military
3 people
What stands out about Malahide’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Malahide’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1970s, with 3 births.
MilitaryPolitics & LawSportsFilm, TV & StageFaithMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Malahide
Three names lead: David Wilkins (10 languages), Darragh O'Brien (6) and Alan Farrell (5).
#2Politics & Law
Darragh O'Brien
born 1974Irish Fianna Fáil politician
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Known for
What Malahide is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as soldiers and sailors, at 6.5 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Malahide
The other 10 span the years 1771 to 1981.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Swords leads the towns around it, with 4 names.
Questions about famous people from Malahide
Who is the most famous person from Malahide?
David Wilkins (Irish sports sailor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 10 languages. Next come Darragh O'Brien and Alan Farrell.
How many famous people were born in Malahide?
13 people born in Malahide have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 14 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Malahide known for?
Among its famous people, soldiers and sailors: 3 of the 13. That is 23% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Malahide?
Thomas Talbot, born in 1771. The youngest on the list was born in 1981.
Who counts as from Malahide?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Malahide’s urban area (the CSO’s 2022 urban area), 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.
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 (9)
- Darragh O'Brien: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alan Farrell: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pat Ingoldsby: Emanuel Stoica, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Milo Talbot: Artist William Carter (1863-1939), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ruth Durlacher: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger Doyle: StPaul353, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Taylor: psyberartist, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Ryan: Labour Youth, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Duffy: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 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).