BL#1
Sports
Brendan Lowry
born 1959Irish Gaelic football player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: DiarmuidC15 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Ferbane, Co. Offaly
Ferbane is the birthplace of 3 famous people
The best known is the Irish Gaelic football player Brendan Lowry, with articles in 2 languages. Declan Meagher and Mick Lowry follow. Go 19 km to Athlone and the list grows to 71, with Stefan Molyneux at the top. The oldest name on the list belongs to Declan Meagher, born in 1921, the newest to Mick Lowry, born in 1960.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Brendan Lowry
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1921
Declan Meagher
Youngest
1960
Mick Lowry
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Ferbane
Two of the three are athletes.
DM#2
Notable
Declan Meagher
1921–2019Irish obstetrician (1921-208)
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
ML#3
Known for
What Ferbane is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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
Athlone leads the towns around it, with 71 names.
Questions about famous people from Ferbane
Who is the most famous person from Ferbane?
Brendan Lowry (Irish Gaelic football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Declan Meagher and Mick Lowry.
How many famous people were born in Ferbane?
3 people born in Ferbane have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Ferbane known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ferbane?
Declan Meagher, born in 1921. The youngest on the list was born in 1960.
Who counts as from Ferbane?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ferbane’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)
- Stefan Molyneux: Stefan Molyneux, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Cowen: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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