MO#1
Sports
Mick O'Dwyer
1936–2025Irish Gaelic football player and manager
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Pmk58 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Waterville, Co. Kerry
Waterville is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Articles in 4 languages make the Irish Gaelic football player and manager Mick O'Dwyer the best known. The Irish politician Thomas O'Reilly ranks second, ahead of Denis O'Dwyer. Thomas O'Reilly (1875) and Mick O'Dwyer (1936) mark the two ends of the list. Athletes make up the largest group, 3 of them.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mick O'Dwyer
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1875
Thomas O'Reilly
Youngest
1936
Mick O'Dwyer
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Waterville
Athletes take two of the three places.
TO#2
Politics & Law
Thomas O'Reilly
1875–1944Irish politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
DO#3
Known for
What Waterville is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 2.3 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Waterville
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 1 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Waterville
Who is the most famous person from Waterville?
Mick O'Dwyer (Irish Gaelic football player and manager) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Thomas O'Reilly and Denis O'Dwyer.
How many famous people were born in Waterville?
4 people born in Waterville have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Waterville known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Waterville?
Thomas O'Reilly, born in 1875. The youngest on the list was born in 1936.
Who counts as from Waterville?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Waterville’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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