#1Music
Liam O'Flynn
1945–2018Irish musician (1945-2018)
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Kill, Co. Kildare
Kill counts 6 famous people, first among them Liam O'Flynn
Most widely known is Liam O'Flynn, the Irish musician, with articles in 18 languages. John Devoy is second and Heidi Talbot third. 3 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. The list runs from John Devoy, born in 1842, to Adam Byrne, born in 1994.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Liam O'Flynn
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1842
John Devoy
Youngest
1994
Adam Byrne
Most common field
Music
2 people
What stands out about Kill’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Kill’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1940s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
MusicSportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Kill
Two of the three are musicians.
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#2Writing & Arts
John Devoy
1842–1928Irish rebel leader and journalist (1842–1928)
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Known for
What Kill is known for
The field with the most names is Music: 2.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Kill
Another 3, the earliest born in 1933.
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Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Naas, at 23.
Naas · 5 kmJohn de Robeck & 22 more
Celbridge · 11 kmArthur Guinness & 10 more
Clane · 8 kmCharles Handy & 2 moreMSRathcoole · 9 kmMichelle Smith & 2 more
Blessington · 9 kmNinette de Valois & 2 moreCMSallins · 5 kmCharlie McCreevy & 1 moreKWSaggart · 11 kmKathleen Watkins & 1 moreALJohnstown · 2 kmAnthony LawlorQuestions about famous people from Kill
Who is the most famous person from Kill?
Liam O'Flynn (Irish musician (1945-2018)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 18 languages. Next come John Devoy and Heidi Talbot.
How many famous people were born in Kill?
6 people born in Kill have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Kill known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 2 of the 6. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kill?
John Devoy, born in 1842. The youngest on the list was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Kill?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kill’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)
- Liam O'Flynn: Ganainm, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Devoy: Unknown (Bain News Service, publisher), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Heidi Talbot: Missgrumpy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ruby Walsh: The colonel of the lamb, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Byrne: Stefano Delfrate, 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
- 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).