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Photo: Tdr112 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Walkinstown, Dublin
2 famous people call Walkinstown their birthplace
Most widely known is Frank Clarke, the Irish judge, with articles in 7 languages. The other is Sinéad Crowley, the Irish journalist and novelist. Roberto Lopes tops the 16 names on record in Crumlin, 1 km away. Over 23 years of births, the list goes from Frank Clarke (1951) to Sinéad Crowley (1974).
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Frank Clarke
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1951
Frank Clarke
Youngest
1974
Sinéad Crowley
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Walkinstown
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Writing & Arts
Sinéad Crowley
born 1974Irish journalist and novelist
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Walkinstown is known for
Share of Walkinstown’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Walkinstown, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Walkinstown
Who is the most famous person from Walkinstown?
Frank Clarke (Irish judge) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Sinéad Crowley.
How many famous people were born in Walkinstown?
2 people born in Walkinstown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Walkinstown known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Walkinstown?
Frank Clarke, born in 1951. The youngest on the list was born in 1974.
Who counts as from Walkinstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Walkinstown’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 (3)
- Roberto Lopes: Office of the President of Ireland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Doran: Alasdair Middleton from Rothesay, Scotland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Byrne: Mattythewhite, 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).