HR#1
Business
Hugh Ryan
1832–1899Irish-Canadian railway magnate, industrialist, banker and philanthropist
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Doon, Co. Limerick
9 famous people were born in Doon, most of them since 1970
Hugh Ryan leads the list, covered in 2 languages. Second and third on the list are John Ryan and Liam Fitzgerald. The biggest group are business people: 2. Fewer than a quarter of the 34 towns in Co. Limerick with famous people list more.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Hugh Ryan
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1832
Hugh Ryan
Youngest
1999
Mikey O'Brien
What stands out about Doon’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Doon’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1990s, with 4 people born in that decade.
NotableBusinessPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Doon
Hugh Ryan, John Ryan and Liam Fitzgerald are written about in 2, 2 and 2 languages.
JR#2
Business
John Ryan
1834–1902Irish-Canadian railway magnate
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
LF#3
Politics & Law
Liam Fitzgerald
1949–2025Irish politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Doon is known for
Share of Doon’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 Doon
The other 6 span the years 1950 to 1999.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Tipperary has the most on record: 18.
Questions about famous people from Doon
Who is the most famous person from Doon?
Hugh Ryan (Irish-Canadian railway magnate, industrialist, banker and philanthropist) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come John Ryan and Liam Fitzgerald.
How many famous people were born in Doon?
9 people born in Doon have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Doon?
Hugh Ryan, born in 1832. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Doon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Doon’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)
- John O'Leary: Frederick Hollyer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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