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Charles Handy
1932–2024Irish economist (1932–2024)
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Clane, Co. Kildare
Clane counts 3 famous people, first among them Charles Handy
The best known is the Irish economist Charles Handy, with articles in 18 languages. Kristine O'Brien and Larry Cribbin follow. For its size the list is short: 3.7 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.6 in the typical Co. Kildare town. The neighbour with the longest list is Naas, 8 km away: 23, led by John de Robeck.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Charles Handy
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1880
Larry Cribbin
Youngest
1991
Kristine O'Brien
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Clane
Counted by languages, Charles Handy is ahead of Kristine O'Brien and Larry Cribbin: 18, 9 and 1.
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Known for
What Clane is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 2.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Clane
Who is the most famous person from Clane?
Charles Handy (Irish economist (1932–2024)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 18 languages. Next come Kristine O'Brien and Larry Cribbin.
How many famous people were born in Clane?
3 people born in Clane have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Clane known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Clane?
Larry Cribbin, born in 1880. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
Who counts as from Clane?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Clane’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 (5)
- Charles Handy: einalem, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John de Robeck: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Guinness: User Morrison1917 on en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam O'Flynn: Ganainm, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ciarán Kilduff: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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