#1Politics & Law
Francis Taylor
1550–1621Mayor of Dublin and Catholic martyr
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Famous people · Swords, Co. Dublin
Swords’ famous people span 449 years: 4 births from 1550 to 1999
Articles in 4 languages make the mayor of Dublin and Catholic martyr Francis Taylor the best known. The Irish judge Joseph Finnegan ranks second, ahead of Peter Kioso. Francis Taylor, the best known, was born in 1550. For its size the list is short: 1 for every 10,000 residents, against 2.2 in the typical Co. Dublin town.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Francis Taylor
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1550
Francis Taylor
Youngest
1999
Peter Kioso
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Swords
Francis Taylor, Joseph Finnegan and Peter Kioso are written about in 4, 4 and 4 languages.
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Through the years
When Swords’s famous people were born
The 1550s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Swords is known for
The field with the most names is Politics & Law: 2.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Swords
1 more, best known first.
Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth
1680–1758Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and nobleman
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 6 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Swords
Who is the most famous person from Swords?
Francis Taylor (mayor of Dublin and Catholic martyr) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Joseph Finnegan and Peter Kioso.
How many famous people were born in Swords?
4 people born in Swords have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Swords known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Swords?
Francis Taylor, born in 1550. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Swords?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Swords’ 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)
- Francis Taylor: psyberartist, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barney McKenna: Original uploader was Aloys Soullie at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Montague: Josh Lim ( Sky Harbor ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Ryan: Labour Youth, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lyons: Flickr user " William Murphy ", CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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