#1Sports
Nathan Collins
born 2001Irish association football player
28 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Leixlip, Co. Kildare
11 famous people were born in Leixlip, more of them athletes than in most towns
Nathan Collins, the Irish association football player, is the most widely known, written about in 28 languages. The largest group, 10, was born since 1970. From Jean Sophia Pigott in 1845 to Andrew Omobamidele in 2002, the births cover 157 years. Fewer than a quarter of the 28 towns in Co. Kildare with famous people list more.
Born here
11
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Nathan Collins
28 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1845
Jean Sophia Pigott
Youngest
2002
Andrew Omobamidele
Most common field
Sports
8 people
What stands out about Leixlip’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Leixlip’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1970s, at 3.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Leixlip is known for
Leixlip has 2.3× the usual share of athletes.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Leixlip
The three best known are all athletes.
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Andrew Omobamidele
born 2002Irish footballer (born 2002)
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Emma Byrne
born 1979Irish association football player
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Leixlip
The rest number 8, with 5 athletes among them.
Aishah Akorede
born 1999Irish model who is Miss Universe Ireland 2023 (born 1999)
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Leixlip, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Leixlip
Who is the most famous person from Leixlip?
Nathan Collins (Irish association football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 28 languages. Next come Andrew Omobamidele and Emma Byrne.
How many famous people were born in Leixlip?
11 people born in Leixlip have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Leixlip known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 8 of the 11. That is 73% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Leixlip?
Jean Sophia Pigott, born in 1845. The youngest on the list was born in 2002.
Who counts as from Leixlip?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Leixlip’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)
- Nathan Collins: Bex Walton, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Omobamidele: Irish Football Fan TV, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Emma Byrne: joshjdss, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Trevor Brennan: PierreSelim, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Geraghty: Gero t, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Guinness: User Morrison1917 on en.wikipedia, Public domain, 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).