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Famous people · Corrofin, Co. Galway

No famous person born in Corrofin is listed yet

A short trip away, Tuam (9 km) counts 25 famous people, Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair among them. 38 towns across Co. Galway can name a famous person born there. Galway has the most of any town in Co. Galway: 255. After Galway, the next longest list in Co. Galway is Ballinasloe’s, with 54.

Who’s listed here

We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Corrofin’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Corrofin yet.

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Famous people born near Corrofin

Tuam leads the towns around it, with 25 names.

Questions about famous people from Corrofin

Who counts as from Corrofin?

People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Corrofin’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).

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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).