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Jimmy Murray
1917–2007Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
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Famous people · Knockcroghery, Co. Roscommon
4 famous people were born in Knockcroghery
Jimmy Murray, the Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer, is the most widely known, written about in one language. Behind the leader come Liam Gilmartin and Mark Miley. From Jimmy Murray in 1917 to Phelim Murray in 1922, the births cover 5 years. More are athletes than anything else, 4 in all.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jimmy Murray
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1917
Jimmy Murray
Youngest
1922
Phelim Murray
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Knockcroghery
The three are covered in 1, 1 and 1 languages: Jimmy Murray, Liam Gilmartin and Mark Miley.
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Everyone else born in Knockcroghery
1 more, best known first.
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Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Knockcroghery, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Knockcroghery
Who is the most famous person from Knockcroghery?
Jimmy Murray (Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages. Next come Liam Gilmartin and Mark Miley.
How many famous people were born in Knockcroghery?
4 people born in Knockcroghery have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Knockcroghery known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 4. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Knockcroghery?
Jimmy Murray, born in 1917. The youngest on the list was born in 1922.
Who counts as from Knockcroghery?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Knockcroghery’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
- Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: Peter Mooney, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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