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Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Rathcoole, Co. Dublin
Michelle Smith tops a list of 3 famous people born in Rathcoole
At the top of the list is the Irish swimmer Michelle Smith, covered in 27 languages. Close behind are Bill Attley and Pat Taaffe. Just 7 km away, Tallaght’s list holds 21 names, Robbie Keane the best known. The oldest name on the list belongs to Pat Taaffe, born in 1930, the newest to Michelle Smith, born in 1969.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Michelle Smith
27 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1930
Pat Taaffe
Youngest
1969
Michelle Smith
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Rathcoole
Athletes take two of the three places.
BA#2
Politics & Law
Bill Attley
born 1938Former Irish trade unionist and referee
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
PT#3
Known for
What Rathcoole is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 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
The most names next door are in Tallaght: 21.
Questions about famous people from Rathcoole
Who is the most famous person from Rathcoole?
Michelle Smith (Irish swimmer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 27 languages. Next come Bill Attley and Pat Taaffe.
How many famous people were born in Rathcoole?
3 people born in Rathcoole have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Rathcoole known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rathcoole?
Pat Taaffe, born in 1930. The youngest on the list was born in 1969.
Who counts as from Rathcoole?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rathcoole’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)
- Robbie Keane: Michael Kranewitter, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Graham Norton: PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Guinness: User Morrison1917 on en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Curran: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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