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Photo: Pamela Norrington · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Swinford, Co. Mayo
Swinford counts 8 famous people, first among them Joe Lydon
Joe Lydon, the boxer, is the most widely known, written about in 16 languages. Second and third on the list are Mary Davis and Bernard Durkan. The first birth on record is James O'Brien’s, in 1823, and the last Robbie McCallion’s, in 1979. 4 of them were born between 1922 and 1969, more than in any other period.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Joe Lydon
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1823
James O'Brien
Youngest
1979
Robbie McCallion
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Swinford’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Swinford’s famous people were born
The 1870s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawBusinessFaithMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Swinford
Joe Lydon leads with articles in 16 languages, ahead of Mary Davis (7) and Bernard Durkan (6).
MD#2
Business
Mary Davis
born 1954Irish social entrepreneur and intellectual disabilities rights campaigner
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
BD#3
Politics & Law
Bernard Durkan
born 1945Irish politician
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Swinford is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 3.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Swinford
The rest number 5, with 2 athletes among them.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
5 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Swinford
Who is the most famous person from Swinford?
Joe Lydon (boxer (1878-1937)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 16 languages. Next come Mary Davis and Bernard Durkan.
How many famous people were born in Swinford?
8 people born in Swinford have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 9 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Swinford known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 8. That is 38% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Swinford?
James O'Brien, born in 1823. The youngest on the list was born in 1979.
Who counts as from Swinford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Swinford’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.
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