Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Newtown has made the famous people list yet
Carlow, 13 km off, can claim 39 famous people, the best known William Desmond Taylor. In all of Co. Laois, the famous people on record come from 15 towns. No town in Co. Laois lists more than Portlaoise, with 46. After Portlaoise, the next longest list in Co. Laois is Rathdowney’s, with 15.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Newtown’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Newtown yet.
Famous people born near Newtown
Nearby, Carlow has the most on record, with 39.
Athy · 16 kmGeorge Lyttleton Rogers & 10 moreMCBallyragget · 17 kmMabel Cahill & 8 moreJBAbbeyleix · 16 kmJonah Barrington & 7 moreJWCastledermot · 19 kmJack Wall & 2 moreWGBallylinan · 10 kmWilliam Russell GraceQuestions about famous people from Newtown
Who counts as from Newtown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Newtown’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 (1)
- George Lyttleton Rogers: Unknown (Bassano Ltd), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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