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Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Omeath, Co. Louth
2 famous people call Omeath their birthplace
Articles in 2 languages make the Irish politician Arthur Morgan the best known. The list has one more: the professional golfer Hugh Boyle. Andrea Corr tops the 71 names on record in Dundalk, 14 km away. Over 18 years of births, the list goes from Hugh Boyle (1936) to Arthur Morgan (1954).
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Arthur Morgan
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1936
Hugh Boyle
Youngest
1954
Arthur Morgan
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Omeath
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Known for
What Omeath is known for
Share of Omeath’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
The neighbour with the most names is Dundalk, at 71.
Questions about famous people from Omeath
Who is the most famous person from Omeath?
Arthur Morgan (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Hugh Boyle.
How many famous people were born in Omeath?
2 people born in Omeath have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Omeath known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Omeath?
Hugh Boyle, born in 1936. The youngest on the list was born in 1954.
Who counts as from Omeath?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Omeath’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)
- Andrea Corr: Charlie Brewer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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