AN#1
Music
Alicia Adélaide Needham
1863–1945Irish composer (1863-1945)
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: HENRY CLARK · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Oldcastle, Co. Meath
4 famous people were born in Oldcastle
The best known is the Irish composer Alicia Adélaide Needham, with articles in 8 languages. Behind the leader come Michael Smith and Kathleen Napoli McKenna. Born in 1848, Richard Kirby Ridgeway is the first name on record, and Michael Smith, born in 1940, the most recent. Only 5 of the 22 towns in Co. Meath with anyone on record list more.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Alicia Adélaide Needham
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1848
Richard Kirby Ridgeway
Youngest
1940
Michael Smith
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known
Born in Oldcastle
Ranked by languages covered: Alicia Adélaide Needham with 8, then Michael Smith with 8 and Kathleen Napoli McKenna with 4.
MS#2
Faith
Michael Smith
born 1940Irish Roman Catholic Bishop
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
KM#3
Politics & Law
Kathleen Napoli McKenna
1897–1988Irish republican activist and journalist (1897-1988)
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Oldcastle’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1860s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
MusicFaithPolitics & LawMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Oldcastle is known for
The largest field is Music, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Oldcastle
1 more, best known first.
Richard Kirby Ridgeway
1848–1924Irish military officer (1848–1924); recipient of the Victoria Cross
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Kells has the most people on record, 11 of them.
Questions about famous people from Oldcastle
Who is the most famous person from Oldcastle?
Alicia Adélaide Needham (Irish composer (1863-1945)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Michael Smith and Kathleen Napoli McKenna.
How many famous people were born in Oldcastle?
4 people born in Oldcastle 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 Oldcastle known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 1 of the 4. That is 25% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Oldcastle?
Richard Kirby Ridgeway, born in 1848. The youngest on the list was born in 1940.
Who counts as from Oldcastle?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Oldcastle’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 (1)
- Alice Stopford Green: Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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