KW#1
Film, TV & Stage
Kathleen Watkins
1934–2024Irish broadcaster, harpist, singer and author
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Ian Paterson · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Saggart, Co. Dublin
2 famous people were born in Saggart
With articles in 3 languages, Kathleen Watkins is the most widely known. The other is Blaine Kelly, the gaelic football player. Of its neighbours, Tallaght, 5 km away, lists the most: 21, Robbie Keane first. The list’s best known name, Kathleen Watkins, dates from 1934.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kathleen Watkins
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1934
Kathleen Watkins
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 person
The best known
Born in Saggart
BK#2
Known for
What Saggart is known for
Performers are the most numerous, 1 of them.
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 neighbour with the most names is Tallaght, at 21.
Questions about famous people from Saggart
Who is the most famous person from Saggart?
Kathleen Watkins (Irish broadcaster, harpist, singer and author) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Blaine Kelly.
How many famous people were born in Saggart?
2 people born in Saggart have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Saggart 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 counts as from Saggart?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Saggart’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
- Dave Allen: CBS Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Byrne: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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