HH#1
Business
Herbert Samuel Holt
1856–1941Canadian businessman (1856-1941)
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Kenneth Gallery Smyth · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Geashill, Co. Offaly
Geashill is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Articles in 5 languages make the Canadian businessman Herbert Samuel Holt the best known. The list has one more: the Irish Gaelic footballer Larry Coughlan. A short trip away, Tullamore (12 km) counts 39 famous people, Brian Cowen among them. From Herbert Samuel Holt in 1856 to Larry Coughlan in 1941, the births cover 85 years.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Herbert Samuel Holt
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1856
Herbert Samuel Holt
Youngest
1941
Larry Coughlan
Most common field
Business
1 person
The best known
Born in Geashill
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Known for
What Geashill is known for
The field with the most names is Business: 1.
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
Close by, the fullest list is Tullamore’s, at 39 names.
Questions about famous people from Geashill
Who is the most famous person from Geashill?
Herbert Samuel Holt (Canadian businessman (1856-1941)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Larry Coughlan.
How many famous people were born in Geashill?
2 people born in Geashill have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Geashill known for?
Among its famous people, business people: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 2% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Geashill?
Herbert Samuel Holt, born in 1856. The youngest on the list was born in 1941.
Who counts as from Geashill?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Geashill’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
- Charles Flanagan: Department of Children and Youth Affairs, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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