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Photo: Andrew Woodvine · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Bangor Erris, Co. Mayo
2 famous people call Bangor Erris their birthplace
John McAndrew, the gaelic football player, is the most widely known, written about in one language. One more name completes the list: Johnny Carey. A short trip away, Béal An Mhuirthead (18 km) counts 5 famous people, Sinead Diver among them. From John McAndrew to Johnny Carey, the births on the list run from 1927 to 1945.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
John McAndrew
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1927
John McAndrew
Youngest
1945
Johnny Carey
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Bangor Erris
JC#2
Sports
Johnny Carey
born 1945Gaelic footballer, Garda Superintendent
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Béal An Mhuirthead leads the towns around it, with 5 names.
Questions about famous people from Bangor Erris
Who is the most famous person from Bangor Erris?
John McAndrew (gaelic football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages. Next come Johnny Carey.
How many famous people were born in Bangor Erris?
2 people born in Bangor Erris have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Bangor Erris known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 2. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bangor Erris?
John McAndrew, born in 1927. The youngest on the list was born in 1945.
Who counts as from Bangor Erris?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bangor Erris’ 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.
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