#1Film, TV & Stage
Maureen O'Sullivan
1911–1998Irish-American actress (1911-1998)
44 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Boyle, Co. Roscommon
Boyle’s famous people span 165 years: 9 births from 1829 to 1994
Articles in 44 languages make the Irish-American actress Maureen O'Sullivan the best known. Second and third on the list are Chris O'Dowd and Margaret Cousins. In the Revival and independence years, 3 were born, the most of any period. 2 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Maureen O'Sullivan
44 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1829
Henry Cuthbert
Youngest
1994
Enda Smith
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
What stands out about Boyle’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Boyle
Performers take two of the three places.
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Chris O'Dowd
born 1979Irish actor and comedian (born 1979)
30 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Music
Margaret Cousins
1878–1954Irish-Indian suffragist and feminist
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Boyle’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1910s, with 1 people born in that decade.
Film, TV & StagePolitics & LawSportsMusicFaithWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Boyle is known for
The field with the most names is Film, TV & Stage: 2.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Boyle
6 more, from 1829 to 1994.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Ballaghaderreen counts 9 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Boyle
Who is the most famous person from Boyle?
Maureen O'Sullivan (Irish-American actress (1911-1998)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 44 languages. Next come Chris O'Dowd and Margaret Cousins.
How many famous people were born in Boyle?
9 people born in Boyle have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 11 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Boyle known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 2 of the 9. That is 22% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Boyle?
Henry Cuthbert, born in 1829. The youngest on the list was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Boyle?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Boyle’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 (6)
- Maureen O'Sullivan: Russell Ball, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris O'Dowd: Christopher William Adach from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Cousins: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Grace Rhys: Russell & Sons, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Cuthbert: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Susan L. Mitchell: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, 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).