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Politics & Law
Anthony Lawlor
born 1959Irish politician
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Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Johnstown, Co. Kildare
Johnstown, birthplace of the Irish politician Anthony Lawlor
In 1959, the Irish politician Anthony Lawlor was born. That places their birth between 1922 and 1969. Readers can find them written up in 5 languages. Nearby, Naas, 3 km away, lists 23, led by John de Robeck.
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Best known
Anthony Lawlor
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1959
Anthony Lawlor
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Johnstown
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Naas · 3 kmJohn de Robeck & 22 more
Celbridge · 13 kmArthur Guinness & 10 more
Kill · 2 kmLiam O'Flynn & 5 more
Clane · 8 kmCharles Handy & 2 more
Blessington · 9 kmNinette de Valois & 2 moreMSRathcoole · 11 kmMichelle Smith & 2 moreCMSallins · 4 kmCharlie McCreevy & 1 moreKWSaggart · 13 kmKathleen Watkins & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Johnstown
Who is the most famous person from Johnstown?
Anthony Lawlor (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 Johnstown?
1 people born in Johnstown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Johnstown 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 Johnstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Johnstown’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)
- 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
- Charles Handy: einalem, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ninette de Valois: Rob Croes for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).