LM#1
Film, TV & Stage
Lola Montez
1821–1861Irish dancer and actress (1821–1861)
45 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Grange, Co. Sligo
Grange counts 3 famous people, first among them Lola Montez
Lola Montez, the Irish dancer and actress, is the most widely known, written about in 45 languages. The Irish swimmer Mona McSharry ranks second, ahead of Caroline Currid. Births span 1821 to 2000, from Lola Montez to Mona McSharry. Within 14 km, Sligo lists the most: 77, with Neil Jordan first.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Lola Montez
45 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1821
Lola Montez
Youngest
2000
Mona McSharry
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 person
What stands out about Grange’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Grange
The three are covered in 45, 19 and 1 languages: Lola Montez, Mona McSharry and Caroline Currid.
MM#2
CC#3
Science & Medicine
Caroline Currid
born 1985Irish sports psychologist
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Grange is known for
Share of Grange’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
Sligo has the longest list next door: 77.
Questions about famous people from Grange
Who is the most famous person from Grange?
Lola Montez (Irish dancer and actress (1821–1861)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 45 languages. Next come Mona McSharry and Caroline Currid.
How many famous people were born in Grange?
3 people born in Grange have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Grange known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 3. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Grange?
Lola Montez, born in 1821. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Grange?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Grange’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.
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