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Film, TV & Stage
Jon Kenny
1957–2024Irish comedian and actor (1957–2024)
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Epzcaw · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Hospital, Co. Limerick
Hospital is the birthplace of 3 famous people
Jon Kenny, the Irish comedian and actor, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. Second place goes to the Irish hurler Jimmy Carroll, third to Damien Reale. Births span 1957 to 1981, from Jon Kenny to Damien Reale. Of its neighbours, Kilmallock, 13 km away, lists the most: 19, William Turner first.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jon Kenny
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1957
Jon Kenny
Youngest
1981
Damien Reale
The best known
Born in Hospital
Jon Kenny has articles in 8 languages, Jimmy Carroll in 2 and Damien Reale in 1.
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Known for
What Hospital is known for
Share of Hospital’s famous people in each field.
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
Close by, the fullest list is Kilmallock’s, at 19 names.
Questions about famous people from Hospital
Who is the most famous person from Hospital?
Jon Kenny (Irish comedian and actor (1957–2024)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Jimmy Carroll and Damien Reale.
How many famous people were born in Hospital?
3 people born in Hospital have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Hospital?
Jon Kenny, born in 1957. The youngest on the list was born in 1981.
Who counts as from Hospital?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hospital’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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