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Science & Medicine
Mary Brück
1925–2008Irish astronomer (1925–2008)
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Rathkennamike2 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Ballivor, Co. Meath
3 famous people call Ballivor their birthplace
At the top of the list is the Irish astronomer Mary Brück, covered in 9 languages. Second and third on the list are Bertie Cunningham and Paddy Dixon. A short trip away, Trim (12 km) counts 12 famous people, Tim Clancy among them. Over 16 years of births, the list goes from Paddy Dixon (1923) to Bertie Cunningham (1939).
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mary Brück
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1923
Paddy Dixon
Youngest
1939
Bertie Cunningham
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Ballivor
By how many languages cover them, Mary Brück comes first (9), then Bertie Cunningham (1) and Paddy Dixon (1).
BC#2
PD#3
Known for
What Ballivor 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.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Trim has the most on record, with 12.
Questions about famous people from Ballivor
Who is the most famous person from Ballivor?
Mary Brück (Irish astronomer (1925–2008)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Bertie Cunningham and Paddy Dixon.
How many famous people were born in Ballivor?
3 people born in Ballivor have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Ballivor known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballivor?
Paddy Dixon, born in 1923. The youngest on the list was born in 1939.
Who counts as from Ballivor?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballivor’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 (2)
- Tim Clancy: Alasdair Middleton from Rothesay, Scotland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John J. Glennon: J.C. Strauss, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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