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Famous people · Portmarnock, Co. Dublin
2 famous people were born in Portmarnock
Articles in 4 languages make the Irish footballer Neill Byrne the best known. The other is Orla O'Doherty, the squash player. The neighbour with the longest list is Raheny, 5 km away: 14, led by Seán Haughey. The first birth on record is Orla O'Doherty’s, in 1971, and the last Neill Byrne’s, in 1993.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Neill Byrne
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1971
Orla O'Doherty
Youngest
1993
Neill Byrne
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Portmarnock
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 6 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Portmarnock
Who is the most famous person from Portmarnock?
Neill Byrne (Irish footballer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Orla O'Doherty.
How many famous people were born in Portmarnock?
2 people born in Portmarnock have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Portmarnock known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 2. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Portmarnock?
Orla O'Doherty, born in 1971. The youngest on the list was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Portmarnock?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Portmarnock’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 (4)
- Orla O'Doherty: England Squash Masters, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Seán Haughey: Xavier Lejeune, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Duffy: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denise Mitchell: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 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).