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Politics & Law
Máire Whelan
born 1965Attorney General of Ireland
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Joseph Mischyshyn · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Kinvarra, Co. Galway
6 famous people were born in Kinvarra
Most widely known is Máire Whelan, the attorney General of Ireland, with articles in 4 languages. 3 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. From Celia Lynch in 1908 to Ger Mahon in 1986, the births cover 78 years. More are leaders than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Máire Whelan
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1908
Celia Lynch
Youngest
1986
Ger Mahon
What stands out about Kinvarra’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Kinvarra’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1980s come out on top, with 2 births.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Kinvarra
Leaders take two of the three places.
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Known for
What Kinvarra is known for
The largest field is Politics & Law, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Kinvarra
3 more, from 1922 to 1983.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Gort has the most on record, with 14.
Questions about famous people from Kinvarra
Who is the most famous person from Kinvarra?
Máire Whelan (attorney General of Ireland) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Celia Lynch and Ger Mahon.
How many famous people were born in Kinvarra?
6 people born in Kinvarra have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kinvarra?
Celia Lynch, born in 1908. The youngest on the list was born in 1986.
Who counts as from Kinvarra?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kinvarra’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 (3)
- Hildegarde Naughton: House of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Grady: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Séamus Brennan: Flickr user "Justsplit.com", CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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