BM#1
Politics & Law
Brian Mullooly
born 1935Irish politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
3 famous people were born in Strokestown
At the top of the list is the Irish politician Brian Mullooly, covered in 5 languages. Brigid Lyons Thornton and Hugh Gibbons follow. Go 18 km to Roscommon and the list grows to 13, with Luke 'Ming' Flanagan at the top. The earliest on the list is Brigid Lyons Thornton, born in 1896, and the youngest Brian Mullooly, born in 1935.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Brian Mullooly
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1896
Brigid Lyons Thornton
Youngest
1935
Brian Mullooly
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Strokestown
Leaders take two of the three places.
BT#2
Science & Medicine
Brigid Lyons Thornton
1896–1987Irish doctor
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
HG#3
Politics & Law
Hugh Gibbons
1916–2007Irish politician and medical doctor (1916–2007)
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Strokestown is known for
Share of Strokestown’s famous people in each field.
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
Of the towns nearby, 3 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Strokestown
Who is the most famous person from Strokestown?
Brian Mullooly (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Brigid Lyons Thornton and Hugh Gibbons.
How many famous people were born in Strokestown?
3 people born in Strokestown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Strokestown known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Strokestown?
Brigid Lyons Thornton, born in 1896. The youngest on the list was born in 1935.
Who counts as from Strokestown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Strokestown’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)
- Luke 'Ming' Flanagan: Peter Mooney, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Susan L. Mitchell: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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