#1Famous people · Clara, Co. Offaly
2 famous people were born in Clara
The best known is the Irish politician Barry Cowen, with articles in 9 languages. The list has one more: the Irish politician Bernard Cowen. For more famous names, Tullamore is 11 km away: its list has 39, led by Brian Cowen. From Bernard Cowen in 1932 to Barry Cowen in 1967, the births cover 35 years.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Barry Cowen
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1932
Bernard Cowen
Youngest
1967
Barry Cowen
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Clara
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Tullamore: 39.
Questions about famous people from Clara
Who is the most famous person from Clara?
Barry Cowen (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Bernard Cowen.
How many famous people were born in Clara?
2 people born in Clara have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Clara known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 2. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Clara?
Bernard Cowen, born in 1932. The youngest on the list was born in 1967.
Who counts as from Clara?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Clara’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 (2)
- Barry Cowen: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Cowen: US Government / The White House, 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).