MS#1
Politics & Law
Michael Staines
1885–1955Irish politician and police commissioner (1885-1955)
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Mark Waters · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Newport, Co. Mayo
3 famous people call Newport their birthplace
Michael Staines, the Irish politician and police commissioner, is the most widely known, written about in 6 languages. Second and third on the list are Joseph Walsh and Michael Kilroy. The neighbour with the longest list is Castlebar, 17 km away: 62, led by Enda Kenny. From Michael Kilroy to Joseph Walsh, the births on the list run from 1884 to 1888.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Michael Staines
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1884
Michael Kilroy
Youngest
1888
Joseph Walsh
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Newport
By how many languages cover them, Michael Staines comes first (6), then Joseph Walsh (4) and Michael Kilroy (3).
JW#2
MK#3
Politics & Law
Michael Kilroy
1884–1962Irish politician (1884-1962)
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Newport is known for
Leaders are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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
Nearby, Castlebar has the most on record, with 62.
Questions about famous people from Newport
Who is the most famous person from Newport?
Michael Staines (Irish politician and police commissioner (1885-1955)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Joseph Walsh and Michael Kilroy.
How many famous people were born in Newport?
3 people born in Newport have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Newport known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Newport?
Michael Kilroy, born in 1884. The youngest on the list was born in 1888.
Who counts as from Newport?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Newport’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 MacBride: Powell Press, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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