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Photo: Seansweeney1 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
4 famous people were born in Ballinamore
At the top of the list is the Irish politician Joe McCartin, covered in 8 languages. The Irish race walker Colin Griffin ranks second, ahead of Augustine Martin. Born in 1935, Augustine Martin is the first name on record, and Colin Griffin, born in 1982, the most recent. More are leaders than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Joe McCartin
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1935
Augustine Martin
Youngest
1982
Colin Griffin
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Ballinamore
Counted by languages, Joe McCartin is ahead of Colin Griffin and Augustine Martin: 8, 5 and 4.
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Science & Medicine
Augustine Martin
1935–1995Irish academic, Anglo-Irish scholar, teacher, writer, broadcaster and literary critic
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Ballinamore’s famous people were born
The 1930s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Ballinamore is known for
Share of Ballinamore’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ballinamore
1 more, best known first.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Ballinamore, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Ballinamore
Who is the most famous person from Ballinamore?
Joe McCartin (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Colin Griffin and Augustine Martin.
How many famous people were born in Ballinamore?
4 people born in Ballinamore have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 8 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Ballinamore known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballinamore?
Augustine Martin, born in 1935. The youngest on the list was born in 1982.
Who counts as from Ballinamore?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballinamore’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.
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