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Photo: Robert Ashby · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Carragh, Co. Kildare
The Irish politician Seán Power is the one famous person from Carragh
In 1960, the Irish politician Seán Power was born. That places their birth between 1922 and 1969. Articles about them exist in 5 languages. Kathleen Lonsdale heads the list in Newbridge, 8 km away, which has 26 names.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Seán Power
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1960
Seán Power
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Carragh
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Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Carragh, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Carragh
Who is the most famous person from Carragh?
Seán Power (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages.
How many famous people were born in Carragh?
1 people born in Carragh have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Carragh known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Carragh?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Carragh’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 (3)
- John de Robeck: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam O'Flynn: Ganainm, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Handy: einalem, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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).