DB#1
Faith
Derek John Christopher Byrne
born 1948Irish Roman Catholic bishop
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Monkstown, Dublin
5 famous people were born in Monkstown
Articles in 5 languages make the Irish Roman Catholic bishop Derek John Christopher Byrne the best known. Second place goes to the Irish singer and musician Liam Ó Maonlaí, third to Manliff Barrington. More than half were born between 1922 and 1969, 3 in all. Over 97 years of births, the list goes from Edmund Saulez (1867) to Liam Ó Maonlaí (1964).
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Derek John Christopher Byrne
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1867
Edmund Saulez
Youngest
1964
Liam Ó Maonlaí
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Monkstown
Counted by languages, Derek John Christopher Byrne is ahead of Liam Ó Maonlaí and Manliff Barrington: 5, 5 and 5.
#2Music
Liam Ó Maonlaí
born 1964Irish singer and musician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MB#3
Sports
Manliff Barrington
1910–1999Irish motorcycle racer (1910-1999)
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Monkstown’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1940s come out on top, with 1 births.
SportsFaithMusicWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Monkstown is known for
Sports 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 Monkstown
2 more, from 1867 to 1935.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Dún Laoghaire, at 37.
Dún Laoghaire · 2 kmBob Geldof & 36 more
Dalkey · 4 kmMaeve Binchy & 26 moreWOStillorgan · 3 kmWilliam Orpen & 8 moreENStepaside · 4 kmEdward Max Nicholson & 4 more
Foxrock · 2 kmSamuel Beckett & 2 moreGCCabinteely · 4 kmGiles Cooper & 2 moreKCBooterstown · 3 kmKenny Carroll & 1 moreSLBallybrack · 4 kmSeán Lemass & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Monkstown
Who is the most famous person from Monkstown?
Derek John Christopher Byrne (Irish Roman Catholic bishop) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Liam Ó Maonlaí and Manliff Barrington.
How many famous people were born in Monkstown?
5 people born in Monkstown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Monkstown known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 5. That is 40% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Monkstown?
Edmund Saulez, born in 1867. The youngest on the list was born in 1964.
Who counts as from Monkstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Monkstown’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 (5)
- Liam Ó Maonlaí: Biguana, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Pat Coogan: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Geldof: International Monetary Fund Photograph/Stephen Jaffe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maeve Binchy: The original uploader was Jon Kay at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Beckett: Roger Pic, Public domain, 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).