PB#1
Film, TV & Stage
Pierce Brosnan
born 1953Irish actor (born 1953)
105 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Drogheda, Co. Louth
Drogheda leads Co. Louth with 96 famous people
Pierce Brosnan, the Irish actor, is the most widely known, written about in 105 languages. Close behind are Steve Staunton and Colin O'Donoghue. With 24 leaders, the list holds 1.6 times the share found across Irish towns. The list comes to 21.8 for every 10,000 residents, against 12.8 in the typical town in Co. Louth.
Born here
96
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Pierce Brosnan
105 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1610
John Bathe
Youngest
2005
Daryl DeLeon
Most common field
Sports
43 people
What stands out about Drogheda’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Drogheda
Counted by languages, Pierce Brosnan is ahead of Steve Staunton and Colin O'Donoghue: 105, 32 and 29.
#2
#3Film, TV & Stage
Colin O'Donoghue
born 1981Irish actor
29 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Drogheda’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1970s than in any other decade: 16.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StageMilitaryMusicScience & MedicineNotableFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Drogheda is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is leaders, at 1.6 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Drogheda
93 more, best known first.
George Drumgoole Coleman
1795–1844Irish civil architect who lived and worked in Singapore, Straits Settlements
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Thomas Charles Wright
1799–1868Irish-born admiral, founding-father of Ecuadorian Navy
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Catherine Ann Cullen
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
DCBalbriggan · 15 kmDiane Caldwell & 11 more
Ardee · 20 kmBeatrice Hill-Lowe & 6 moreGPLaytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney · 6 kmGeorgie Poynton & 3 moreFLSlane · 13 kmFrancis Ledwidge & 3 more
Duleek · 8 kmKeane Barry & 2 moreBMStamullen · 11 kmBen McKenna & 2 moreACClogherhead · 11 kmAlbert Cashier & 1 moreELTermonfeckin · 7 kmEvanna Lynch
Ardee · 20 kmBeatrice Hill-Lowe & 6 moreGPLaytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney · 6 kmGeorgie Poynton & 3 moreFLSlane · 13 kmFrancis Ledwidge & 3 moreDuleek · 8 kmKeane Barry & 2 moreBMStamullen · 11 kmBen McKenna & 2 moreACClogherhead · 11 kmAlbert Cashier & 1 moreELTermonfeckin · 7 kmEvanna LynchQuestions about famous people from Drogheda
Who is the most famous person from Drogheda?
Pierce Brosnan (Irish actor (born 1953)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 105 languages. Next come Steve Staunton and Colin O'Donoghue.
How many famous people were born in Drogheda?
96 people born in Drogheda have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 111 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Drogheda known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 43 of the 96. That is 45% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Drogheda?
John Bathe, born in 1610. The youngest on the list was born in 2005.
Who counts as from Drogheda?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Drogheda’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 (39)
- Steve Staunton: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Colin O'Donoghue: vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mairead McGuinness: Photographer: Christophe Licoppe, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Harte: Jon Candy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Byrne: Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eamonn Campbell: Jim McCann, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Megan Campbell: RonJonMan from Tallahassee, FL, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Hughes: The original uploader was D Monack at English Wikipedia ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Damien English: World Trade Organization, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Thornton: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Byrne: Houses of the Oireachtas from Ireland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peadar Tóibín: Houses of the Oireachtas from Ireland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Colm Markey: K432807, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth O'Neill: John James Masquerier, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Killian Brennan: Christian Gavelle of Paris Saint-Germain, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alan O'Hare: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerald Nash: House of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson: Contemporary photograph, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Martin: Montrealais 21:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC), CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Alison Gilliland: Labour Youth, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Annie Hoey: Danwaugh, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Chidley Irwin: Bartletto Studios, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Imelda Munster: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joanna Byrne: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Katherine Wilmot: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lukas Browning Lagerfeldt: User199988, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom O'Toole: stede64, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Fergus: Laviru Koruwakankanamge, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Des Smyth: Pvt pauline, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Drumgoole Coleman: http://www.roguery.com, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alison Comyn: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Buttimer: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Grimmond: Supplement to the Auckland Weekly News, 23 May 1918, page 40 - photographer unknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Horsford Kemp: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Duffy: Steve Knight from Halstead, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Charles Wright: Tommyxx, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Kenny: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Beatrice Hill-Lowe: British Olympic Association, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Keane Barry: DARTS NOW, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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