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Famous people · Marino, Dublin

Marino is the birthplace of 2 famous people

Alex White, the Irish former politician, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. The other is Tom Jordan, the Irish actor. For more famous names, Clontarf East is 3 km away: its list has 25, led by Bram Stoker. From Tom Jordan to Alex White, the births on the list run from 1937 to 1958.

#1 best knownAlex WhitePolitics & Law · born 1958
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Alex White
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1937
Tom Jordan
Youngest
1958
Alex White
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known

Born in Marino

Alex White#1
Politics & Law

Alex White

born 1958

Irish former politician (b. 1958)

8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
TJ#2
Film, TV & Stage

Tom Jordan

1937–2019

Irish actor (1937-2019)

1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for

What Marino is known for

The largest field is Politics & Law, with 1 people.

The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.

Next door

Famous people from the towns next door

Of the towns around it, Clontarf East has the most on record: 25.

Questions about famous people from Marino

Who is the most famous person from Marino?

Alex White (Irish former politician (b. 1958)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Tom Jordan.

How many famous people were born in Marino?

2 people born in Marino have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.

What is Marino known for?

Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.

Who is the earliest-born famous person from Marino?

Tom Jordan, born in 1937. The youngest on the list was born in 1958.

Who counts as from Marino?

People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Marino’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).

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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).