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Music
Michael Lawson
born 1997Irish singer who won The Voice of Ireland in 2016
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Newbliss, Co. Monaghan
A single famous person was born in Newbliss: Michael Lawson
Michael Lawson came into the world in 1997. Articles about them exist in 2 languages. A short trip away, Monaghan (15 km) counts 24 famous people, Charles Gavan Duffy among them. The longest list of any town in Co. Monaghan belongs to Monaghan, with 24.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Michael Lawson
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1997
Michael Lawson
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known
Born in Newbliss
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Monaghan has the most people on record, 24 of them.
Questions about famous people from Newbliss
Who is the most famous person from Newbliss?
Michael Lawson (Irish singer who won The Voice of Ireland in 2016) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages.
How many famous people were born in Newbliss?
1 people born in Newbliss have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Newbliss known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Newbliss?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Newbliss’ 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)
- Charles Gavan Duffy: not stated, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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