#1Famous people · Raheny, Dublin
14 famous people were born in Raheny, more of them leaders than in most towns
Most widely known is Seán Haughey, the Irish politician, with articles in 12 languages. Over 184 years of births, the list goes from Richard Fox (1816) to Brian Maher (2000). 5 of them were born since 1970. For every 10,000 residents there are 16 on the list, well above the typical Co. Dublin town’s 2.2.
Born here
14
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Seán Haughey
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1816
Richard Fox
Youngest
2000
Brian Maher
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
What stands out about Raheny’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Raheny’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1970s, at 4.
Politics & LawSportsWriting & ArtsMusicScience & MedicineMilitaryNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Raheny is known for
Leaders stand out most, at 1.8 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Raheny
First, Seán Haughey (12 languages), then Michael Graham (11) and Richard Maunsell (5).
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Music
Michael Graham
born 1972Irish singer-songwriter, actor and record producer
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Science & Medicine
Richard Maunsell
1868–1944British locomotive engineer born Raheny, Ireland (1868–1944)
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Raheny
The other 11 span the years 1816 to 2000.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Clontarf East counts 25 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Raheny
Who is the most famous person from Raheny?
Seán Haughey (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 12 languages. Next come Michael Graham and Richard Maunsell.
How many famous people were born in Raheny?
14 people born in Raheny have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 16 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Raheny known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 4 of the 14. That is 29% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Raheny?
Richard Fox, born in 1816. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Raheny?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Raheny’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 (7)
- Seán Haughey: Xavier Lejeune, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Maunsell: Lafayette (no individual credited), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Séamus Woulfe: Office of the President of Ireland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bram Stoker: unidentified photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barney McKenna: Original uploader was Aloys Soullie at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).