SC#1
Sports
Steve Casey
1908–1987Irish rower and professional wrestler (1908–1987)
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Sneem, Co. Kerry
Sneem’s famous people span 125 years: 5 births from 1850 to 1975
The best known is the Irish rower and professional wrestler Steve Casey, with articles in 4 languages. Second place goes to the British spy William Melville, third to Ronan Hussey. Steve Casey, the best known, was born in 1908. More are athletes than anything else, 4 in all.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Steve Casey
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1850
William Melville
Youngest
1975
Killian Burns
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Sneem
Athletes take two of the three places.
WM#2
Military
William Melville
1850–1918British spy (1850–1918)
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
RH#3
Through the years
When Sneem’s famous people were born
The 1900s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
SportsMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Sneem is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 2.5 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Sneem
2 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Sneem
Who is the most famous person from Sneem?
Steve Casey (Irish rower and professional wrestler (1908–1987)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come William Melville and Ronan Hussey.
How many famous people were born in Sneem?
5 people born in Sneem have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Sneem known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 5. That is 80% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sneem?
William Melville, born in 1850. The youngest on the list was born in 1975.
Who counts as from Sneem?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sneem’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.
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