#1Famous people · Rush, Co. Dublin
6 famous people from Rush, many of them athletes
At the top of the list is the Irish footballer Isibeal Atkinson, covered in 12 languages. Behind the leader come Con Martin and Marie Kean. 3 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. The list comes to 5.5 for every 10,000 residents, against 2.2 in the typical town in Co. Dublin.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Isibeal Atkinson
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1918
Marie Kean
Youngest
2003
Nathan McGuire
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Rush’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Rush is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 2.6 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Rush’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 2000s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
SportsFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Rush
Languages with an article: 12 for Isibeal Atkinson, 9 for Con Martin, 7 for Marie Kean.
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Con Martin
1923–2013Irish footballer (1923–2013)
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MK#3
Film, TV & Stage
Marie Kean
1918–1993Irish actress (1918–1993)
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Rush
The rest number 3, with 3 athletes among them.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Malahide has the most on record, with 13.
Questions about famous people from Rush
Who is the most famous person from Rush?
Isibeal Atkinson (Irish footballer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 12 languages. Next come Con Martin and Marie Kean.
How many famous people were born in Rush?
6 people born in Rush have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Rush known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 6. That is 83% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rush?
Marie Kean, born in 1918. The youngest on the list was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Rush?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rush’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 (5)
- Isibeal Atkinson: Ryan Asman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Con Martin: Wim van Rossem for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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
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).