Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainClonygowan has yet to put a famous person on the list
Of its neighbours, Portlaoise, 16 km away, lists the most: 46, Robert Sheehan first. Birr has the most of any town in Co. Offaly: 56. After Birr, the next longest list in Co. Offaly is Tullamore’s, with 39. The Co. Offaly lists hold names for 17 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Clonygowan’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Clonygowan yet.
Famous people born near Clonygowan
The best known from each town within 20 km of Clonygowan, with how many people each has.
Portlaoise · 16 kmRobert Sheehan & 45 more
Tullamore · 17 kmBrian Cowen & 38 more
Mountmellick · 8 kmCharles Flanagan & 9 more
Rathangan · 19 kmGeorge Pomeroy Colley & 5 moreAHPortarlington · 7 kmAoife Hoey & 4 moreJCDaingean · 13 kmJoe Connor & 3 more
Monasterevin · 16 kmWilloughby James Hamilton & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Clonygowan
Who counts as from Clonygowan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Clonygowan’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)
- Robert Sheehan: Luigi Novi, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Cowen: US Government / The White House, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Flanagan: Department of Children and Youth Affairs, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Pomeroy Colley: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Willoughby James Hamilton: Robinson (Photographer), 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).