No famous person from Rathcoffey yet, but Naas next door has 23
The longest list in Co. Kildare is Kildare’s, with 28 names. Newbridge has the second-longest list in Co. Kildare, after Kildare, with 26. The best known born in Naas is John de Robeck.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Rathcoffey’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Rathcoffey yet.
Famous people born near Rathcoffey
The longest list nearby is Naas’, with 23.
Naas · 12 kmJohn de Robeck & 22 more
Celbridge · 9 kmArthur Guinness & 10 more
Maynooth · 8 kmGerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare & 8 more
Kill · 11 kmLiam O'Flynn & 5 more
Clane · 4 kmCharles Handy & 2 more
Kilcock · 7 kmCiarán Kilduff & 1 moreCMSallins · 9 kmCharlie McCreevy & 1 moreMOStraffan · 5 kmMichael O'HigginsQuestions about famous people from Rathcoffey
Who counts as from Rathcoffey?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rathcoffey’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 (6)
- John de Robeck: Unknown photographer, Public domain, 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
- Liam O'Flynn: Ganainm, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).