RG#1
Music
Rea Garvey
born 1973Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Tralee, Co. Kerry
115 famous people from Tralee, many of them athletes
Rea Garvey is the best known, with articles in 12 languages. Since 1970, 46 were born, the most of any period. Among the 32 towns in Co. Kerry with anyone listed, none has more. Over 221 years of births, the list goes from Mary O'Connell (1778) to David Clifford (1999).
Born here
115
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Rea Garvey
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1778
Mary O'Connell
Youngest
1999
David Clifford
Most common field
Sports
76 people
What stands out about Tralee’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Tralee is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 2.1 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Tralee’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 26.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsMusicNotableFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Tralee
Three names lead: Rea Garvey (12 languages), Timothy V. Murphy (11) and Dick Spring (10).
TM#2
Film, TV & Stage
Timothy V. Murphy
born 1960Irish actor
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
DS#3
Everyone
Everyone else born in Tralee
Another 112, 76 of them athletes.
Robert D. FitzGerald
1830–1892Surveyor, ornithologist, botanist and poet (1830-1892)
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
Patrick Cahill
1884–1946Irish Sinn Féin politician and newspaper editor (1884-1946)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Gabriel Stokes
1849–1920Irish civil servant in India and British colonial administrator (1849-1920)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Killorglin: 13.
Questions about famous people from Tralee
Who is the most famous person from Tralee?
Rea Garvey (Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 12 languages. Next come Timothy V. Murphy and Dick Spring.
How many famous people were born in Tralee?
115 people born in Tralee have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 123 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Tralee known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 76 of the 115. That is 66% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tralee?
Mary O'Connell, born in 1778. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Tralee?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Tralee’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 (22)
- Robert D. FitzGerald: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Crean: Trocaire from Ireland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Austin Stack: Unknown author Unknown author , scanned & uploaded by M Doyle, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Norma Foley: House of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Clifford: Dublin32, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Darren Dennehy: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denis Behan: GavinZac at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Ferris: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Declan O'Sullivan: Myrtle26, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Brassil: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pa Daly: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tommy Walsh: Ulster Council, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aidan O'Mahony: Ciaran McGuiggan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alice Curtayne: DonalRynne, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christie Hennessy: Giacomo Antonio Lombardi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek O'Brien: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Toiréasa Ferris: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Donnacha Walsh: Perstare08, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary O'Connell: John Gubbins, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Timmy O'Dowd: Myrtle26, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gabriel Stokes: Teresa Stokes, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denis Mary Bradley: w:John Gilmary Shea is the author of the book., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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