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Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Johnstownbridge, Co. Kildare
A single famous person was born in Johnstownbridge: Damien Molony
The Irish actor Damien Molony was born in 1984. Readers can find them written up in 16 languages. The neighbour with the longest list is Edenderry, 15 km away: 10, led by Andrew Killian. Kildare has the most of any town in Co. Kildare: 28.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Damien Molony
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1984
Damien Molony
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 person
The best known
Born in Johnstownbridge
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Johnstownbridge
Who is the most famous person from Johnstownbridge?
Damien Molony (Irish actor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 16 languages.
How many famous people were born in Johnstownbridge?
1 people born in Johnstownbridge have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Johnstownbridge known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Johnstownbridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Johnstownbridge’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)
- Andrew Killian: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Handy: einalem, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ciarán Kilduff: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 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).