NJ#1
Film, TV & Stage
Neil Jordan
born 1950Irish filmmaker and fiction writer
37 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Sligo, Co. Sligo
No town in Co. Sligo has more famous people than Sligo: 77
The best known is the Irish filmmaker and fiction writer Neil Jordan, with articles in 37 languages. Shane Filan and Mark Feehily follow. The list has 2.3 times the usual share of musicians, 7 in all. 30 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period.
Born here
77
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Neil Jordan
37 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1766
Daniel Clark
Youngest
2001
Dean Clancy
Most common field
Sports
37 people
What stands out about Sligo’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Sligo is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is musicians, at 2.3 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Sligo’s famous people were born
The 1980s alone account for 16 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawMusicFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineWriting & ArtsMilitaryNotableFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Sligo
Musicians take two of the three places.
#2
#3Music
Mark Feehily
born 1980Irish pop singer (born 1980)
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Sligo
Another 74, the earliest born in 1766.
Thomas Francis Gilroy
1840–191189th Mayor of New York City (from 1893 to 1894)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
James Hamilton
1918–2000Irish mathematician and theoretical physicist (1918–2000)
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Manorhamilton has the longest list next door: 10.
Questions about famous people from Sligo
Who is the most famous person from Sligo?
Neil Jordan (Irish filmmaker and fiction writer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 37 languages. Next come Shane Filan and Mark Feehily.
How many famous people were born in Sligo?
77 people born in Sligo have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 92 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Sligo known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 37 of the 77. That is 48% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sligo?
Daniel Clark, born in 1766. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Sligo?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sligo’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 (23)
- Shane Filan: Harrywad, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Feehily: Can't stop shooting film from Nha Trang, Vietnam, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kian Egan: Harrywad, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael J. Ryan: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ray MacSharry: Jean-Louis Debaize, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pauline McLynn: Philip Robins, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sean Fallon: Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher O'Donnell: Darrenhdel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Francis Gilroy: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ciarán Martyn: Johnfullerton at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Cogan: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill McGovern: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Clark: Historic New Orleans Collection., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank O'Rourke: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Kenny: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony McLoughlin: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Colreavy: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Cunningham Blest: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Conán O'Donnell: Mckayrob1981, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Eileen Hanley: Louis Comfort Tiffany, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Vince Feeney: Vintagekits, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John J. Burns: "The Burlington Free Press" (Burlington, VT)., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert McKim: Notman & Fraser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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