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George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence is the best known, with articles in 34 languages. Second and third on the list are William Henry Gregory and Henry Charles Sirr. The list comes to 5.5 for every 10,000 residents, against 2.2 in the typical town in Co. Dublin. No town in Co. Dublin lists more than Dublin, with 3,775.
Languages with an article: 34 for George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, 5 for William Henry Gregory, 3 for Henry Charles Sirr.
#1Third son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English Kings Edward IV and Richard III (1449-1478)
#2Anglo-Irish writer and politician (1817–1892)
#3Irish soldier and police officer
More of them were born in the 1440s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
1 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
1 more, best known first.
The neighbour with the most names is St Stephen's Green, at 6.
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (third son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English Kings Edward IV and Richard III (1449-1478)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 34 languages. Next come William Henry Gregory and Henry Charles Sirr.
4 people born in Temple Bar 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.
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 4. That is 25% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, born in 1449. The youngest on the list was born in 1891.
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Temple Bar’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.
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).
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