#1Science & Medicine
Ernest Walton
1903–1995Irish physicist and Nobel laureate (1903-1995)
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Famous people · Dungarvan, Co. Waterford
Ernest Walton leads the 35 famous people born in Dungarvan
The Irish physicist and Nobel laureate Ernest Walton is written about in 81 languages. Moe Dunford and Dennis Kelleher follow. The list is still growing: 8 were born since 1970. Between 1922 and 1969, 14 were born, the most of any period.
Born here
35
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ernest Walton
81 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1828
James Vincent Cleary
Youngest
1998
Neil Montgomery
What stands out about Dungarvan’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Dungarvan
By how many languages cover them, Ernest Walton comes first (81), then Moe Dunford (12) and Dennis Kelleher (6).
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Sports
Dennis Kelleher
1918–2002Irish footballer (1918-2002)
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Through the years
When Dungarvan’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1920s come out on top, with 7 births.
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9 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
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Questions about famous people from Dungarvan
Who is the most famous person from Dungarvan?
Ernest Walton (Irish physicist and Nobel laureate (1903-1995)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 81 languages. Next come Moe Dunford and Dennis Kelleher.
How many famous people were born in Dungarvan?
35 people born in Dungarvan have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 40 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dungarvan?
James Vincent Cleary, born in 1828. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Dungarvan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dungarvan’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 (9)
- Ernest Walton: Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Moe Dunford: German Comic Con, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Vincent Cleary: William Cochrane (1831-1898) and John Castell Hopkins (1864-1923), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Deasy: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Mernin: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Langley: Not known ("Photo by Melba Studio"), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Crotty: Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denis Cashman: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Lennon: Navilenn65, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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