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Politics & Law
Jim Glennon
born 1953Irish politician and rugby union player
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Skerries, Co. Dublin
Most of the 10 famous people born in Skerries came into the world since 1970
Most widely known is Jim Glennon, the Irish politician and rugby union player, with articles in 5 languages. Second and third on the list are Steven Beattie and Aebh Kelly. The list runs from J.P. "Paddy" Saul, born in 1894, to Mark Doyle, born in 1998. The biggest group are athletes: 4.
Born here
10
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jim Glennon
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1894
J.P. "Paddy" Saul
Youngest
1998
Mark Doyle
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Skerries’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Skerries’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1990s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Skerries
Ranked by languages covered: Jim Glennon with 5, then Steven Beattie with 3 and Aebh Kelly with 2.
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What Skerries is known for
Share of Skerries’ famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Malahide lists the most people: 13.
DWMalahide · 15 kmDavid Wilkins & 12 moreDCBalbriggan · 6 kmDiane Caldwell & 11 more
Rush · 6 kmIsibeal Atkinson & 5 more
Donabate · 10 kmBrendan Ryan & 3 more
Swords · 15 kmFrancis Taylor & 3 moreGPLaytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney · 17 kmGeorgie Poynton & 3 more
Lusk · 7 kmDerek Landy & 2 moreBMStamullen · 11 kmBen McKenna & 2 more
Rush · 6 kmIsibeal Atkinson & 5 moreDonabate · 10 kmBrendan Ryan & 3 moreSwords · 15 kmFrancis Taylor & 3 moreGPLaytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney · 17 kmGeorgie Poynton & 3 moreLusk · 7 kmDerek Landy & 2 moreBMStamullen · 11 kmBen McKenna & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Skerries
Who is the most famous person from Skerries?
Jim Glennon (Irish politician and rugby union player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Steven Beattie and Aebh Kelly.
How many famous people were born in Skerries?
10 people born in Skerries have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 11 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Skerries known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 10. That is 40% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Skerries?
J.P. "Paddy" Saul, born in 1894. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Skerries?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Skerries’ 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 (6)
- Aebh Kelly: Ceolcellach, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Conor Oliver: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Isibeal Atkinson: Ryan Asman, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).