CM#1
Politics & Law
Charlie McCreevy
born 1949Irish politician
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Sallins, Co. Kildare
Charlie McCreevy tops a list of 2 famous people born in Sallins
The best known is the Irish politician Charlie McCreevy, with articles in 16 languages. The other is John Cliffe Watts, the architect & postmaster-general. Newbridge, 12 km off, can claim 26 famous people, the best known Kathleen Lonsdale. From John Cliffe Watts to Charlie McCreevy, the births on the list run from 1786 to 1949.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Charlie McCreevy
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1786
John Cliffe Watts
Youngest
1949
Charlie McCreevy
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Sallins
JW#2
Writing & Arts
John Cliffe Watts
1786–1873Architect & Postmaster-General (1786–1873)
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Sallins is known for
1 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Newbridge counts 26 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Sallins
Who is the most famous person from Sallins?
Charlie McCreevy (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 16 languages. Next come John Cliffe Watts.
How many famous people were born in Sallins?
2 people born in Sallins have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Sallins known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sallins?
John Cliffe Watts, born in 1786. The youngest on the list was born in 1949.
Who counts as from Sallins?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sallins’ 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 (4)
- John de Robeck: Unknown photographer, 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).