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Photo: C O'Flanagan · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Ronanstown, Dublin
2 famous people were born in Ronanstown
Most widely known is Killian Donnelly, the Irish actor, with articles in 4 languages. The other is Stephen Clynch, the Irish hurler. Graham Norton tops the 12 names on record in Clondalkin, 3 km away. The list’s best known name, Killian Donnelly, dates from 1984.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Killian Donnelly
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1984
Killian Donnelly
Youngest
1984
Stephen Clynch
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 person
The best known
Born in Ronanstown
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Known for
What Ronanstown is known for
Film, TV & Stage leads the fields, with 1 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 Clondalkin: 12.
Questions about famous people from Ronanstown
Who is the most famous person from Ronanstown?
Killian Donnelly (Irish actor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Stephen Clynch.
How many famous people were born in Ronanstown?
2 people born in Ronanstown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ronanstown known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ronanstown?
Killian Donnelly, born in 1984. The youngest on the list was born in 1984.
Who counts as from Ronanstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ronanstown’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 (2)
- Graham Norton: PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Boyle: Вячеслав Евдокимов, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).