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Photo: Gareth James · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Clifden, Co. Galway
5 famous people were born in Clifden from 1824 to 1991
Articles in 9 languages make the Irish soldier John Riley the best known. Tiernan O'Halloran and Alan Joseph Adamson follow. The list’s best known name, John Riley, dates from 1824. More are leaders than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
John Riley
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1824
John Riley
Youngest
1991
Tiernan O'Halloran
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Clifden
Ranked by languages covered: John Riley with 9, then Tiernan O'Halloran with 4 and Alan Joseph Adamson with 3.
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Sports
Tiernan O'Halloran
born 1991Irish rugby union player
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
AA#3
Politics & Law
Alan Joseph Adamson
1857–1928Canadian politician (1857-1928)
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Clifden’s famous people were born
The 1820s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
Politics & LawMilitarySportsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Clifden is known for
Leaders are the most numerous, 2 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Clifden
Still to come: 2 more, from 1898 to 1907.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Clifden
Who is the most famous person from Clifden?
John Riley (Irish soldier (1824–1879)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Tiernan O'Halloran and Alan Joseph Adamson.
How many famous people were born in Clifden?
5 people born in Clifden 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 Clifden known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 5. That is 40% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Clifden?
John Riley, born in 1824. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
Who counts as from Clifden?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Clifden’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.
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