#1Famous people · Westport, Co. Mayo
16 famous people from Westport, many of them leaders
The best known is the Irish republican John MacBride, with articles in 14 languages. Behind the leader come Joseph Maher and Michael Ring. Between 1922 and 1969, 5 were born, the most of any period. Westport ranks 3rd of the 24 towns in Co. Mayo with anyone listed.
Born here
16
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
John MacBride
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1782
James Hardiman
Youngest
1998
Paul Doyle
Most common field
Politics & Law
6 people
What stands out about Westport’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Westport is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is leaders, at 2.3 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Westport’s famous people were born
The 1950s top the chart, with 3 births in the decade.
Politics & LawSportsWriting & ArtsMilitaryFilm, TV & StageNotableFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Westport
John MacBride leads with articles in 14 languages, ahead of Joseph Maher (14) and Michael Ring (9).
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Joseph Maher
1933–1998Irish actor (1933-1998)
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Michael Ring
born 1953Irish Fine Gael politician
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Westport
Of the other 13, 5 are leaders.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Castlebar lists the most people: 62.
Questions about famous people from Westport
Who is the most famous person from Westport?
John MacBride (Irish republican) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 14 languages. Next come Joseph Maher and Michael Ring.
How many famous people were born in Westport?
16 people born in Westport have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 20 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Westport known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 6 of the 16. That is 38% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Westport?
James Hardiman, born in 1782. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Westport?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Westport’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 (5)
- John MacBride: Powell Press, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Maher: Fox Broadcasting Company, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Ring: FactualUpdates2013, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Derrig: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Meg Connery: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).