#1Military
Francis Beaufort
1774–1857Irish hydrographer and naval officer (1774-1857)
45 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Navan, Co. Meath
32 famous people were born in Navan, more of them clergy and people of faith than in most towns
The best known is the Irish hydrographer and naval officer Francis Beaufort, with articles in 45 languages. 12 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. No other town in Co. Meath lists as many. The list comes to 9.4 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Co. Meath, at 9.4.
Born here
32
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Francis Beaufort
45 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1769
Frances Anne Edgeworth
Youngest
2005
Sam Curtis
Most common field
Sports
14 people
What stands out about Navan’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Navan is known for
Set against the usual town, clergy and people of faith come out 3.1 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Navan’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1980s, with 7 people born in that decade.
SportsPolitics & LawFaithFilm, TV & StageMilitaryWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Navan
Three names lead: Francis Beaufort (45 languages), Dylan Moran (31) and Paul Tighe (13).
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Dylan Moran
born 1971Irish actor and comedian
31 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Navan
The rest number 29, with 14 athletes among them.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Trim’s, at 12 names.
Questions about famous people from Navan
Who is the most famous person from Navan?
Francis Beaufort (Irish hydrographer and naval officer (1774-1857)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 45 languages. Next come Dylan Moran and Paul Tighe.
How many famous people were born in Navan?
32 people born in Navan have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 39 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Navan known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 14 of the 32. That is 44% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Navan?
Frances Anne Edgeworth, born in 1769. The youngest on the list was born in 2005.
Who counts as from Navan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Navan’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 (14)
- Francis Beaufort: Stephen Pearce, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dylan Moran: Fernando de Sousa of Melbourne, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Tighe: ITU/I.Wood, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Rogers: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Victor Daley: Unknown Unknown (downloaded from National Library of Australia), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Clarke: Javalangstring, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Byrne: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Lacy: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Shane Cassells: Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Johnny Guirke: House of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Niall Donnelly: GinoP4, 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
- Keane Barry: DARTS NOW, CC BY 3.0, 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).