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Photo: Padraigobrian · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Ballyporeen, Co. Tipperary
Gemma Hayes, born in 1977, is Ballyporeen’s famous person on record
Gemma Hayes, the Irish singer-songwriter, was born in 1977. 12 languages have an article about them. The neighbour with the longest list is Fermoy, 19 km away: 24, led by Michelle O'Neill. Across Co. Tipperary, the lists cover 38 towns.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gemma Hayes
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1977
Gemma Hayes
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known
Born in Ballyporeen
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Fermoy has the most people on record, 24 of them.
Questions about famous people from Ballyporeen
Who is the most famous person from Ballyporeen?
Gemma Hayes (Irish singer-songwriter) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 12 languages.
How many famous people were born in Ballyporeen?
1 people born in Ballyporeen have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ballyporeen known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Ballyporeen?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballyporeen’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)
- Michelle O'Neill: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie: Bassano Ltd, 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).