Photo: NTF30 · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person yet from Sandyford
John Millington Synge heads the list in Rathfarnham, 5 km away, which has 11 names. The longest list of any town in Co. Dublin belongs to Dublin, with 3,775. After Dublin, the next longest list in Co. Dublin is Dún Laoghaire’s, with 37. 81 towns across Co. Dublin can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Sandyford’s neighbourhood and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Sandyford yet.
Famous people born near Sandyford
The fullest list close by belongs to Rathfarnham, with 11.
Dundrum · 2 kmStephen Roche & 6 moreENStepaside · 2 kmEdward Max Nicholson & 4 moreDBMonkstown · 4 kmDerek John Christopher Byrne & 4 more
Foxrock · 3 kmSamuel Beckett & 2 moreDKChurchtown · 4 kmDervla Kirwan & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Sandyford
Who counts as from Sandyford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sandyford’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)
- Stephen Roche: Eric HOUDAS, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Beckett: Roger Pic, 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).