MO#1
Politics & Law
Mary Mitchell O'Connor
born 1959Irish politician
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Rick Crowley · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Milltown, Co. Galway
8 famous people were born in Milltown, more of them athletes than in most towns
Articles in 7 languages make the Irish politician Mary Mitchell O'Connor the best known. Most were born between 1922 and 1969: 7 of them. Born in 1837, Richard William Dowling is the first name on record, and Tomás Tierney, born in 1961, the most recent. Fewer than a quarter of the 38 towns in Co. Galway with famous people list more.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mary Mitchell O'Connor
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1837
Richard William Dowling
Youngest
1961
Tomás Tierney
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Milltown’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Milltown’s famous people were born
The 1950s top the chart, with 4 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Milltown is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.9 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Milltown
Mary Mitchell O'Connor has articles in 7 languages, Jim Carney in 2 and Gay McManus in 1.
JC#2
Writing & Arts
Jim Carney
born 1950Irish Poet and Broadcaster
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
GM#3
Everyone
Everyone else born in Milltown
Another 5, 4 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Tuam’s, at 25 names.
Questions about famous people from Milltown
Who is the most famous person from Milltown?
Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Jim Carney and Gay McManus.
How many famous people were born in Milltown?
8 people born in Milltown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 9 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Milltown known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 8. That is 63% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Milltown?
Richard William Dowling, born in 1837. The youngest on the list was born in 1961.
Who counts as from Milltown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Milltown’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)
- Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair: ClintMalpaso, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John D'Alton: Rolls Press (Popperfoto), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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