JM#1
Sports
Jamie McGrath
born 1996Irish association football player
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Athboy, Co. Meath
6 famous people were born in Athboy from 1799 to 1996
Jamie McGrath, the Irish association football player, is the most widely known, written about in 9 languages. Second place goes to the recipient of the Victoria cross Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey, third to John Gilroy. The list’s best known name, Jamie McGrath, dates from 1996. 3 of them were born between 1922 and 1969, more than in any other period.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jamie McGrath
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1799
Edward Nangle
Youngest
1996
Jamie McGrath
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Athboy
Languages with an article: 9 for Jamie McGrath, 6 for Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey, 4 for John Gilroy.
FH#2
Military
Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey
1888–1980Recipient of the Victoria Cross (1888-1980)
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Through the years
When Athboy’s famous people were born
The 1940s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Athboy is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Athboy
Another 3, the earliest born in 1799.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Navan has the most on record: 32.
Questions about famous people from Athboy
Who is the most famous person from Athboy?
Jamie McGrath (Irish association football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey and John Gilroy.
How many famous people were born in Athboy?
6 people born in Athboy have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 7 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Athboy known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 6. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Athboy?
Edward Nangle, born in 1799. The youngest on the list was born in 1996.
Who counts as from Athboy?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Athboy’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 Gilroy: https://www.flickr.com/people/80824546@N00, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Nangle: Tomás Deb, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Beaufort: Stephen Pearce, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Clancy: Alasdair Middleton from Rothesay, Scotland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alice Stopford Green: Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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