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Photo: Sarah777 at en.wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
5 famous people were born in Dundrum
Brian Horgan, the Irish hurler, is the most widely known, written about in one language. The hurler David Butler ranks second, ahead of Fergal Horgan. Most were born since 1970: 3 of them. Born in 1961, John Farrell is the first name on record, and David Butler, born in 1992, the most recent.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Brian Horgan
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1961
John Farrell
Youngest
1992
David Butler
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Dundrum’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Dundrum’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1970s, with 2 people born in that decade.
SportsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Dundrum
The three best known are all athletes.
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Known for
What Dundrum is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.9 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Dundrum
2 more, from 1961 to 1962.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Cashel has the most on record, with 26.
Questions about famous people from Dundrum
Who is the most famous person from Dundrum?
Brian Horgan (Irish hurler) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages. Next come David Butler and Fergal Horgan.
How many famous people were born in Dundrum?
5 people born in Dundrum have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Dundrum known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 5. That is 60% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dundrum?
John Farrell, born in 1961. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Dundrum?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dundrum’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 (1)
- John O'Leary: Frederick Hollyer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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