SM#1
Politics & Law
Shane McEntee
1956–2012Irish politician (1956-2012)
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Nobber, Co. Meath
4 famous people call Nobber their birthplace
The best known is the Irish politician Shane McEntee, with articles in 5 languages. George Eogan is second and Brian Farrell third. The oldest name on the list belongs to George Eogan, born in 1930, the newest to Shane McEntee, born in 1956. 2 of them are athletes, more than in any other field.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Shane McEntee
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1930
George Eogan
Youngest
1956
Shane McEntee
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Nobber
Ranked by languages covered: Shane McEntee with 5, then George Eogan with 4 and Brian Farrell with 1.
GE#2
Science & Medicine
George Eogan
1930–2021Irish archaeologist
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
BF#3
Through the years
When Nobber’s famous people were born
The 1950s alone account for 3 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Nobber is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Nobber
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
7 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Nobber
Who is the most famous person from Nobber?
Shane McEntee (Irish politician (1956-2012)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come George Eogan and Brian Farrell.
How many famous people were born in Nobber?
4 people born in Nobber have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Nobber known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Nobber?
George Eogan, born in 1930. The youngest on the list was born in 1956.
Who counts as from Nobber?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Nobber’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)
- Francis Beaufort: Stephen Pearce, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alice Stopford Green: Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ardal O'Hanlon: Conor, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cillian Sheridan: Biso, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Beatrice Hill-Lowe: British Olympic Association, 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).