PC#1
Politics & Law
Pat Carey
born 1947Irish Fianna Fáil politician
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Castlemaine, Co. Kerry
4 famous people were born in Castlemaine from 1818 to 1947
Pat Carey, the Irish Fianna Fáil politician, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. Second and third on the list are Dan Keating and Patrick O'Sullivan. The list’s best known name, Pat Carey, dates from 1947. 2 of them are leaders, more than in any other field.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Pat Carey
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1818
Patrick O'Sullivan
Youngest
1947
Pat Carey
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Castlemaine
Two of the three are leaders.
DK#2
PO#3
Politics & Law
Patrick O'Sullivan
1818–1904(1818-1904) politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Castlemaine’s famous people were born
The 1940s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Castlemaine 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 Castlemaine
1 more, best known first.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 5 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Castlemaine
Who is the most famous person from Castlemaine?
Pat Carey (Irish Fianna Fáil politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Dan Keating and Patrick O'Sullivan.
How many famous people were born in Castlemaine?
4 people born in Castlemaine have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Castlemaine known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Castlemaine?
Patrick O'Sullivan, born in 1818. The youngest on the list was born in 1947.
Who counts as from Castlemaine?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Castlemaine’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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- Denis Mary Bradley: w:John Gilmary Shea is the author of the book., Public domain, 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).