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Famous people · Rathgar, Dublin
9 famous people were born in Rathgar, most of them in the Revival and independence years
Laura Delany, the Irish cricketer, is the most widely known, written about in 9 languages. Second and third on the list are Nicholas Donnelly and Ulick O'Connor. Per head, the list is long: 15.6 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Co. Dublin has 2.2. The earliest on the list is Nicholas Donnelly, born in 1837, and the youngest Laura Delany, born in 1992.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Laura Delany
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1837
Nicholas Donnelly
Youngest
1992
Laura Delany
Most common field
Writing & Arts
3 people
The best known
Born in Rathgar
Ranked by languages covered: Laura Delany with 9, then Nicholas Donnelly with 3 and Ulick O'Connor with 3.
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Writing & Arts
Ulick O'Connor
1928–2019Irish dramatist (& sportsman)
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Rathgar’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1890s, with 3 people born in that decade.
Writing & ArtsSportsFaithScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Rathgar is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is writers and artists, at 2.9 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Rathgar
Still to come: 6 more, from 1853 to 1915.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Rathmines West has the longest list next door: 18.
AHRathmines West · 1 kmAndrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope & 17 moreJSRathfarnham · 2 kmJohn Millington Synge & 10 more
Rathmines East · 2 kmMaureen O'Hara & 9 more
Dundrum · 3 kmStephen Roche & 6 moreEWTempleogue · 3 kmEllen Walshe & 4 moreEBTerenure · 1 kmEdmund Charles Beard & 2 moreDKChurchtown · 2 kmDervla Kirwan & 2 more
Portobello · 3 kmArthur Shields & 1 more
Rathmines East · 2 kmMaureen O'Hara & 9 moreDundrum · 3 kmStephen Roche & 6 moreEWTempleogue · 3 kmEllen Walshe & 4 moreEBTerenure · 1 kmEdmund Charles Beard & 2 moreDKChurchtown · 2 kmDervla Kirwan & 2 morePortobello · 3 kmArthur Shields & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Rathgar
Who is the most famous person from Rathgar?
Laura Delany (Irish cricketer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Nicholas Donnelly and Ulick O'Connor.
How many famous people were born in Rathgar?
9 people born in Rathgar have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 10 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Rathgar known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 3 of the 9. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 12% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rathgar?
Nicholas Donnelly, born in 1837. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Rathgar?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rathgar’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 (4)
- Nicholas Donnelly: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maureen O'Hara: USMC Archives from Quantico, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Roche: Eric HOUDAS, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Shields: film screenshot, 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).