#1Business
Arthur Guinness
1725–1803Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family (1725–1803)
30 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Celbridge, Co. Kildare
From 1725 to 1995, Celbridge was the birthplace of 11 famous people
Arthur Guinness leads the list, covered in 30 languages. Second and third on the list are William Francis Patrick Napier and Aidan Higgins. Since 1970, 4 were born, the most of any period. The list’s best known name, Arthur Guinness, dates from 1725.
Born here
11
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Arthur Guinness
30 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1725
Arthur Guinness
Youngest
1995
Daniel O'Reilly
Most common field
Military
2 people
What stands out about Celbridge’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Celbridge’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1990s, at 3.
MilitarySportsPolitics & LawNotableBusinessWriting & ArtsFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Celbridge
By how many languages cover them, Arthur Guinness comes first (30), then William Francis Patrick Napier (16) and Aidan Higgins (8).
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Military
William Francis Patrick Napier
1785–1860Irish soldier in the British Army and military historian (1785-1860)
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Writing & Arts
Aidan Higgins
1927–2015Irish novelist (1927–2015)
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Celbridge is known for
The largest field is Military, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Celbridge
Another 8, the earliest born in 1829.
John Augustus Conolly
born 1829Irish military officer (1829–1888); recipient of the Victoria Cross
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Leixlip has the longest list next door: 11.
Questions about famous people from Celbridge
Who is the most famous person from Celbridge?
Arthur Guinness (Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family (1725–1803)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 30 languages. Next come William Francis Patrick Napier and Aidan Higgins.
How many famous people were born in Celbridge?
11 people born in Celbridge have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 14 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Celbridge known for?
Among its famous people, soldiers and sailors: 2 of the 11. That is 18% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Celbridge?
Arthur Guinness, born in 1725. The youngest on the list was born in 1995.
Who counts as from Celbridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Celbridge’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 (9)
- Arthur Guinness: User Morrison1917 on en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aidan Higgins: Rub117, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cian Bolger: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Art O'Connor: not stated, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Augustus Conolly: Maull & Fox (no individual credited), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Collins: Bex Walton, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare: Unknown author Unknown author artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Bruton: Friends of Europe, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Curran: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, 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).