AS#1
Film, TV & Stage
Angela Scanlon
born 1983Irish television presenter
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Ratoath, Co. Meath
3 famous people were born in Ratoath from 1838 to 2002
Articles in 3 languages make the Irish television presenter Angela Scanlon the best known. Second and third on the list are Evan Weir and Richard Pigott. The nearest list is in Leixlip, 16 km away: 11 names, starting with Nathan Collins. The list’s best known name, Angela Scanlon, dates from 1983.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Angela Scanlon
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1838
Richard Pigott
Youngest
2002
Evan Weir
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 person
The best known
Born in Ratoath
Counted by languages, Angela Scanlon is ahead of Evan Weir and Richard Pigott: 3, 3 and 2.
EW#2
#3Writing & Arts
Richard Pigott
1838–1889Irish journalist (1835-1889)
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Ratoath is known for
The largest field is Film, TV & Stage, with 1 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
Leixlip leads the towns around it, with 11 names.
Questions about famous people from Ratoath
Who is the most famous person from Ratoath?
Angela Scanlon (Irish television presenter) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Evan Weir and Richard Pigott.
How many famous people were born in Ratoath?
3 people born in Ratoath have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ratoath known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 3. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ratoath?
Richard Pigott, born in 1838. The youngest on the list was born in 2002.
Who counts as from Ratoath?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ratoath’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)
- Richard Pigott: Leslie Ward, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Collins: Bex Walton, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Bruton: Friends of Europe, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Graham Carey: Biser Todorov, CC BY 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).