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Photo: Sarah777 · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Rhode, Co. Offaly
6 famous people from Rhode, many of them athletes
Articles in 2 languages make the gaelic football player Eugene Mulligan the best known. More than half were born between 1922 and 1969, 4 in all. Only 4 of the 17 towns in Co. Offaly with anyone on record list more. From John Dunne to Eugene Mulligan, the births on the list run from 1846 to 1949.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Eugene Mulligan
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1846
John Dunne
Youngest
1949
Eugene Mulligan
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Rhode’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Rhode is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 2.6 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Rhode
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Through the years
When Rhode’s famous people were born
The 1940s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Rhode
3 more, 3 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Edenderry leads the towns around it, with 10 names.
Questions about famous people from Rhode
Who is the most famous person from Rhode?
Eugene Mulligan (gaelic football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come John Dunne and Martin Heavey.
How many famous people were born in Rhode?
6 people born in Rhode have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 7 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Rhode known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 6. That is 83% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rhode?
John Dunne, born in 1846. The youngest on the list was born in 1949.
Who counts as from Rhode?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rhode’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 (3)
- Andrew Killian: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Pomeroy Colley: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John J. Glennon: J.C. Strauss, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).