DH#1
Politics & Law
Danny Healy-Rae
born 1954Irish politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Kilgarvan, Co. Kerry
Of the 6 famous people born in Kilgarvan, an unusual share are leaders
Articles in 4 languages make the Irish politician Danny Healy-Rae the best known. Jackie Healy-Rae, the Irish politician, comes second, with Michael Healy-Rae third. Over 62 years of births, the list goes from Mike Quill (1905) to Michael Healy-Rae (1967). No town in Co. Kerry lists more than Tralee, with 115.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Danny Healy-Rae
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1905
Mike Quill
Youngest
1967
Michael Healy-Rae
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
What stands out about Kilgarvan’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Kilgarvan is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 4.1 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Kilgarvan
Danny Healy-Rae has articles in 4 languages, Jackie Healy-Rae in 4 and Michael Healy-Rae in 4.
JH#2
Politics & Law
Jackie Healy-Rae
1931–2014Irish politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MH#3
Politics & Law
Michael Healy-Rae
born 1967Irish politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Kilgarvan’s famous people were born
3 were born between 1922 and 1969, and the 1950s alone saw 1.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
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Everyone else born in Kilgarvan
3 more, 2 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Killarney’s, at 48 names.
Questions about famous people from Kilgarvan
Who is the most famous person from Kilgarvan?
Danny Healy-Rae (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Jackie Healy-Rae and Michael Healy-Rae.
How many famous people were born in Kilgarvan?
6 people born in Kilgarvan have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 7 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Kilgarvan known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 4 of the 6. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kilgarvan?
Mike Quill, born in 1905. The youngest on the list was born in 1967.
Who counts as from Kilgarvan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kilgarvan’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 (1)
- Charles Phibbs Jones: No 9 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Park, Roland (Sergeant), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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