JC#1
Sports
Joe Connor
1877–1934Irish footballer (1877-1934)
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Daingean is the birthplace of 4 famous people
At the top of the list is the Irish footballer Joe Connor, covered in 3 languages. The next two names are Kevin Kilmurray and Ambrose Hickey. The first birth on record is Joe Connor’s, in 1877, and the last Kevin Kilmurray’s, in 1950. The biggest group are athletes: 4.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Joe Connor
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1877
Joe Connor
Youngest
1950
Kevin Kilmurray
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Daingean
The three best known are all athletes.
KK#2
AH#3
Through the years
When Daingean’s famous people were born
3 were born between 1922 and 1969, and the 1940s alone saw 2.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Daingean
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Tullamore has the most on record, with 39.
Questions about famous people from Daingean
Who is the most famous person from Daingean?
Joe Connor (Irish footballer (1877-1934)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Kevin Kilmurray and Ambrose Hickey.
How many famous people were born in Daingean?
4 people born in Daingean have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Daingean known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 4. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Daingean?
Joe Connor, born in 1877. The youngest on the list was born in 1950.
Who counts as from Daingean?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Daingean’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)
- Brian Cowen: US Government / The White House, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Killian: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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