#1Famous people · Tullamore, Co. Offaly
39 famous people were born in Tullamore, more of them clergy and people of faith than in most towns
At the top of the list is the Irish politician Brian Cowen, covered in 51 languages. Among the 17 towns in Co. Offaly with famous people on record, the town ranks 2nd. 14 of them were born since 1970. Over 184 years of births, the list goes from Eliot Warburton (1810) to Jordan Conroy (1994).
Born here
39
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Brian Cowen
51 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1810
Eliot Warburton
Youngest
1994
Jordan Conroy
Most common field
Sports
16 people
What stands out about Tullamore’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Tullamore is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as clergy and people of faith, at 2.5 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Tullamore’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1970s, at 6.
SportsWriting & ArtsNotableFaithPolitics & LawScience & MedicineMusicFilm, TV & StageBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Tullamore
First, Brian Cowen (51 languages), then Yvonne Farrell (28) and Dónal Lunny (15).
#1
#2Writing & Arts
Yvonne Farrell
born 1951Irish architect (born 1951)
28 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Music
Dónal Lunny
1947–2026Irish musician and record producer
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Tullamore
The rest number 36, with 16 athletes among them.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Kilcormac: 6.
Questions about famous people from Tullamore
Who is the most famous person from Tullamore?
Brian Cowen (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 51 languages. Next come Yvonne Farrell and Dónal Lunny.
How many famous people were born in Tullamore?
39 people born in Tullamore have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 45 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Tullamore known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 16 of the 39. That is 41% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tullamore?
Eliot Warburton, born in 1810. The youngest on the list was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Tullamore?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Tullamore’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 (10)
- Brian Cowen: US Government / The White House, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Yvonne Farrell: Amor Vacui, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dónal Lunny: Richiecoss at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alfie Lambe: CONCILIUM LEGIONIS MARIAE, CC BY-SA 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam Keeley: Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Benjamin Woodward: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Temple Lushington Moore: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eimear Moran: Nicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ailsa Hughes: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Cowen: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 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).