JF#1
Military
James FitzGibbon
born 1780British Army officer
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: United Kingdom Hydrographic Office · Public domainFamous people · Glin, Co. Limerick
2 famous people call Glin their birthplace
Articles in 5 languages make the British Army officer James FitzGibbon the best known. The only other name is the Irish Gaelic footballer Con Fitzgerald. Over 92 years of births, the list goes from James FitzGibbon (1780) to Con Fitzgerald (1872). John B. Keane tops the 21 names on record in Listowel, 19 km away.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
James FitzGibbon
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1780
James FitzGibbon
Youngest
1872
Con Fitzgerald
Most common field
Military
1 person
The best known
Born in Glin
CF#2
Known for
What Glin is known for
Military leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Listowel has the longest list next door: 21.
Questions about famous people from Glin
Who is the most famous person from Glin?
James FitzGibbon (British Army officer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Con Fitzgerald.
How many famous people were born in Glin?
2 people born in Glin have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Glin known for?
Among its famous people, soldiers and sailors: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Glin?
James FitzGibbon, born in 1780. The youngest on the list was born in 1872.
Who counts as from Glin?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Glin’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 (3)
- John B. Keane: Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur: William Salter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Travers: Photographer unidentified, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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