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Faith
Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton
1736–1809Irish archbishop (1736-1809)
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Photo: Alex Passmore · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
Most of the 12 famous people born in Gowran came into the world since 1970
Articles in 5 languages make the Irish archbishop Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton the best known. Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton (1736) and Michael Carey (1999) mark the two ends of the list.
Born here
12
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1736
Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton
Youngest
1999
Michael Carey
What stands out about Gowran’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Gowran’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1970s, at 4.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Gowran
Ranked by languages covered: Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton with 5, then D. J. Carey with 5 and Jim Langton with 2.
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Known for
What Gowran is known for
1 of them work in Faith, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Gowran
Here are 9 more, born from 1916 to 1999.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Kilkenny has the most on record: 179.
Questions about famous people from Gowran
Who is the most famous person from Gowran?
Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton (Irish archbishop (1736-1809)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come D. J. Carey and Jim Langton.
How many famous people were born in Gowran?
12 people born in Gowran have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 14 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Gowran?
Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton, born in 1736. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Gowran?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gowran’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).
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- Phil Hogan: EU2016 NL from The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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