#1Sports
Robbie Keane
born 1980Irish association football player and manager
64 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Tallaght, Dublin
Performers stand out among the 21 famous people born in Tallaght
At the top of the list is the Irish association football player and manager Robbie Keane, covered in 64 languages. 15 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. From Gabriel Cleary to Victor Ozhianvuna, the births on the list run from 1945 to 2009. Fewer than a quarter of the 81 towns in Co. Dublin with famous people list more.
Born here
21
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Robbie Keane
64 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1945
Gabriel Cleary
Youngest
2009
Victor Ozhianvuna
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Tallaght’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Tallaght’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1980s than in any other decade: 6.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Tallaght is known for
Performers stand out most, at 3 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Tallaght
All three are athletes.
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#2Sports
Richard Dunne
born 1979Irish footballer (born 1979)
43 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Mark Yeates
born 1985Irish association football player
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Tallaght
Here are 18 more, born from 1945 to 2009.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Clondalkin has the most on record: 12.
Questions about famous people from Tallaght
Who is the most famous person from Tallaght?
Robbie Keane (Irish association football player and manager) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 64 languages. Next come Richard Dunne and Mark Yeates.
How many famous people were born in Tallaght?
21 people born in Tallaght have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 22 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Tallaght known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 7 of the 21. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tallaght?
Gabriel Cleary, born in 1945. The youngest on the list was born in 2009.
Who counts as from Tallaght?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Tallaght’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 (14)
- Robbie Keane: Michael Kranewitter, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Dunne: Tomasz Przechlewski, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Yeates: Jon Candy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alan Joyce: Jetstar Airways from Melbourne, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Hayes: Myrtle26, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lynn Ruane: House of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Holohan: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brandon Miele: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Al Porter: Angela Curiello, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nucentz: IHH 2011, 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
- Damien Duff: Mikhail Slain, 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).