HK#1
Writing & Arts
Harriet Kirkwood
1880–1953Irish painter (1880–1953)
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Raymond Okonski · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Sutton, Dublin
4 famous people call Sutton their birthplace
The best known is the Irish painter Harriet Kirkwood, with articles in 2 languages. John Flood is second and Dan O'Grady third. Writers and artists make up the largest group, 2 of them. For every 10,000 residents there are 6.9 on the list, well above the typical Co. Dublin town’s 2.2.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Harriet Kirkwood
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1880
Harriet Kirkwood
Youngest
1968
Dan O'Grady
Most common field
Writing & Arts
2 people
The best known
Born in Sutton
By how many languages cover them, Harriet Kirkwood comes first (2), then John Flood (2) and Dan O'Grady (1).
JF#2
Writing & Arts
John Flood
?–1909Irish revolutionry, convict, poet and newspaper proprietor
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
DO#3
Known for
What Sutton is known for
Writers and artists are the most numerous, 2 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Sutton
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
7 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Sutton
Who is the most famous person from Sutton?
Harriet Kirkwood (Irish painter (1880–1953)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come John Flood and Dan O'Grady.
How many famous people were born in Sutton?
4 people born in Sutton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Sutton known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 12% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sutton?
Harriet Kirkwood, born in 1880. The youngest on the list was born in 1968.
Who counts as from Sutton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sutton’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 (4)
- Bram Stoker: unidentified photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Seán Haughey: Xavier Lejeune, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Duffy: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denise Mitchell: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, 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).