Photo: Noelcarroll · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Newcastle is on the famous people list yet
Go 3 km to Castlegar and the list grows to 6, with Joe Connolly at the top. Across Co. Galway, 38 towns list someone born there. No town in Co. Galway lists more than Galway, with 255. Ballinasloe has the second-longest list in Co. Galway, after Galway, with 54.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Newcastle’s neighbourhood and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Newcastle yet.
Famous people born near Newcastle
The fullest list close by belongs to Castlegar, with 6.
Questions about famous people from Newcastle
Who counts as from Newcastle?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Newcastle’s neighbourhood (its Census 2022 Small Areas), 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. In Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford a birth recorded only as the city stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only people recorded as born in it.
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)
- Thomas Grady: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Séamus Brennan: Flickr user "Justsplit.com", CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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).