Photo: Maj Adev · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Portrane yet, but Malahide next door has 13
81 towns across Co. Dublin can name a famous person born there. Dublin’s 3,775 names make the longest list in Co. Dublin. After Dublin, the next longest list in Co. Dublin is Dún Laoghaire’s, with 37. The best known born in Malahide is David Wilkins.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Portrane’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Portrane yet.
Famous people born near Portrane
Malahide has the longest list next door: 13.
Questions about famous people from Portrane
Who counts as from Portrane?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Portrane’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)
- Isibeal Atkinson: Ryan Asman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Ryan: Labour Youth, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Taylor: psyberartist, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek Landy: Hpschaefer www.reserv-art.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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