#1Famous people · Thurles, Co. Tipperary
73 famous people come from Thurles, Kerry Condon the best known
Articles in 36 languages make the Irish actress Kerry Condon the best known. The Irish author Julia Kavanagh ranks second, ahead of Paddy Ryan. Among the 38 towns in Co. Tipperary with famous people on record, the town ranks 2nd. 27 of them were born in the Revival and independence years, more than in any other period.
Born here
73
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kerry Condon
36 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1796
Michael Joseph Quin
Youngest
1995
Ronan Maher
What stands out about Thurles’ famous people
The best known
Born in Thurles
Kerry Condon leads with articles in 36 languages, ahead of Julia Kavanagh (17) and Paddy Ryan (10).
#1
#2Writing & Arts
Julia Kavanagh
1824–1877Irish author (1824-1877)
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Through the years
When Thurles’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1900s come out on top, with 8 births.
NotablePolitics & LawWriting & ArtsSportsFaithMilitaryFilm, TV & StageBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Thurles is known for
The largest field is Politics & Law, with 11 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Thurles
Another 70, the earliest born in 1796.
John Dalton
1821–1869Franciscan priest and Roman Catholic Bishop of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland
FaithWikipedia ↗
Denis Murphy
1910–1989NotableWikipedia ↗
John Cunningham
1890–1917British soldier during the First World War, an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
MilitaryWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
2 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Thurles
Who is the most famous person from Thurles?
Kerry Condon (Irish actress) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 36 languages. Next come Julia Kavanagh and Paddy Ryan.
How many famous people were born in Thurles?
73 people born in Thurles have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 82 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Thurles?
Michael Joseph Quin, born in 1796. The youngest on the list was born in 1995.
Who counts as from Thurles?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Thurles’ 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 (12)
- Kerry Condon: Howard M. Shum, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Julia Kavanagh: Henri Chanet, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paddy Ryan: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Hanafin: Jeff Meade, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick John Ryan: Author unknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Fergus O'Dowd: Flickr user "IAEA Imagebank", CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Lowry: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jackie Cahill: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Dalton: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Charles Keely: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pádraic Maher: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Keogh: Unknown author Unknown author, 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).