Photo: Robert Ashby · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Spa
Tralee, 6 km off, can claim 115 famous people, the best known Rea Garvey. Of the famous people on record, none was born in Spa. No town in Co. Kerry lists more than Tralee, with 115. After Tralee, the next longest list in Co. Kerry is Killarney’s, with 48.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Spa’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Spa yet.
Famous people born near Spa
Of the towns around it, Tralee has the most on record: 115.
Questions about famous people from Spa
Who counts as from Spa?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Spa’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.
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).