AW#1
Sports
Adderley Edward Wilkinson
1887–1978Irish cricketer (1887-1978)
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Captain Fearnought at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath
3 famous people were born in Dunshaughlin
Adderley Edward Wilkinson, the Irish cricketer, is the most widely known, written about in 2 languages. Behind the leader come Teresa Cowley and Caoimhin King. Of its neighbours, Leixlip, 16 km away, lists the most: 11, Nathan Collins first. The list’s best known name, Adderley Edward Wilkinson, dates from 1887.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Adderley Edward Wilkinson
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1887
Adderley Edward Wilkinson
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Dunshaughlin
By how many languages cover them, Adderley Edward Wilkinson comes first (2), then Teresa Cowley (2) and Caoimhin King (1).
TC#2
Faith
Teresa Cowley
?–1914Irish Sisters of Mercy nun, Boer war nurse, and educator
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
CK#3
Known for
What Dunshaughlin is known for
Share of Dunshaughlin’s famous people in each field.
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
The neighbour with the most names is Leixlip, at 11.
Questions about famous people from Dunshaughlin
Who is the most famous person from Dunshaughlin?
Adderley Edward Wilkinson (Irish cricketer (1887-1978)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Teresa Cowley and Caoimhin King.
How many famous people were born in Dunshaughlin?
3 people born in Dunshaughlin 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 Dunshaughlin 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 counts as from Dunshaughlin?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dunshaughlin’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)
- Nathan Collins: Bex Walton, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare: Unknown author Unknown author artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Bruton: Friends of Europe, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ciarán Kilduff: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roderic O'Gorman: Roderic O'Gorman, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).