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Photo: Graham Horn · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Bearna, Co. Galway
2 famous people were born in Bearna
At the top of the list is the footballer Dora Gorman, covered in 5 languages. The list has one more: the Irish print and broadcast journalist Sarah McInerney. The nearest list is in Maigh Cuilinn, 9 km away: 5 names, starting with Emma Eliza Regan. Over 12 years of births, the list goes from Sarah McInerney (1981) to Dora Gorman (1993).
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dora Gorman
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1981
Sarah McInerney
Youngest
1993
Dora Gorman
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Bearna
SM#2
Writing & Arts
Sarah McInerney
born 1981Irish print and broadcast journalist
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Bearna is known for
Share of Bearna’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 Bearna, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Bearna
Who is the most famous person from Bearna?
Dora Gorman (footballer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Sarah McInerney.
How many famous people were born in Bearna?
2 people born in Bearna have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Bearna known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bearna?
Sarah McInerney, born in 1981. The youngest on the list was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Bearna?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bearna’s 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 (2)
- Séamus Brennan: Flickr user "Justsplit.com", CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Grady: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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