#1Politics & Law
Charles Flanagan
born 1956Irish Fine Gael politician
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Mountmellick, Co. Laois
Mountmellick’s famous people span 227 years: 10 births from 1773 to 2000
Articles in 12 languages make the Irish Fine Gael politician Charles Flanagan the best known. Second and third on the list are James Jeffrey Roche and Oliver J. Flanagan. 3 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. The list comes to 20.4 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Co. Laois, at 19.6.
Born here
10
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Charles Flanagan
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1773
John Shaw
Youngest
2000
Robin Tamplin
What stands out about Mountmellick’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Mountmellick’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1920s than in any other decade: 2.
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The best known
Born in Mountmellick
Languages with an article: 12 for Charles Flanagan, 7 for James Jeffrey Roche, 5 for Oliver J. Flanagan.
#1
#2Writing & Arts
James Jeffrey Roche
1847–1908American journalist (1847-1908)
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
OF#3
Politics & Law
Oliver J. Flanagan
1920–1987Irish politician (1920-1987)
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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What Mountmellick is known for
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Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Portlaoise’s, at 46 names.
Questions about famous people from Mountmellick
Who is the most famous person from Mountmellick?
Charles Flanagan (Irish Fine Gael politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 12 languages. Next come James Jeffrey Roche and Oliver J. Flanagan.
How many famous people were born in Mountmellick?
10 people born in Mountmellick have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mountmellick?
John Shaw, born in 1773. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Mountmellick?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Mountmellick’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 (4)
- Charles Flanagan: Department of Children and Youth Affairs, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Jeffrey Roche: uncredited, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Sheehan: Luigi Novi, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Willoughby James Hamilton: Robinson (Photographer), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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