#1Film, TV & Stage
Stefan Molyneux
born 1966Irish-Canadian white supremacist podcaster and conspiracy theorist
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Athlone, Co. Westmeath
More famous people were born in Athlone than in any other town in Co. Westmeath: 71
Stefan Molyneux is the best known, with articles in 19 languages. Second and third on the list are John McCormack and Thomas Power O'Connor. 6 of them are clergy and people of faith, 2.1 times the share across Irish towns. Between 1922 and 1969, 23 were born, the most of any period.
Born here
71
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Stefan Molyneux
19 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1674
Walter Thomas
Youngest
2003
Dylan Gavin
Most common field
Sports
33 people
What stands out about Athlone’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Athlone is known for
Clergy and people of faith stand out most, at 2.1 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Athlone’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1960s come out on top, with 9 births.
SportsPolitics & LawFaithWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineMilitaryFilm, TV & StageMusicNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Athlone
The three are covered in 19, 14 and 12 languages: Stefan Molyneux, John McCormack and Thomas Power O'Connor.
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#3Politics & Law
Thomas Power O'Connor
1848–1929British politician (1848-1929)
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Athlone
Another 68, 33 of them athletes.
Anna Gaynor
1826–1899Irish Religious Sister of Charity and first superior of Our Lady's Hospice
FaithWikipedia ↗
Ted Bollard
1920–2011New Zealand botanist, plant physiologist and science administrator (1920–2011)
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
Thomas Flynn
1842–1892Irish military drummer (1842–1892); recipient of the Victoria Cross
MilitaryWikipedia ↗
Walter Thomas
1674–1743Church of Ireland priest in the first half of the 18th-century
FaithWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Moate’s, at 8 names.
Questions about famous people from Athlone
Who is the most famous person from Athlone?
Stefan Molyneux (Irish-Canadian white supremacist podcaster and conspiracy theorist) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 19 languages. Next come John McCormack and Thomas Power O'Connor.
How many famous people were born in Athlone?
71 people born in Athlone have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 79 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Athlone known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 33 of the 71. That is 46% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Athlone?
Walter Thomas, born in 1674. The youngest on the list was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Athlone?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Athlone’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 (24)
- Stefan Molyneux: Stefan Molyneux, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John McCormack: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Power O'Connor: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alan Sheehan: Bucomofo25, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Joseph Curley: Regimus LaFort is listed as the Censor Librorum, and Cardinal John Farley is listed as the Imprimatur., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Henshaw: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robbie Benson: Вячеслав Евдокимов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary O'Rourke: Kieran Clancy, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Raymond Browne: Trocaire, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Ellard Gore: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lisa Dwan: The British Library, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gabrielle McFadden: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Carty: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Shevlin: Camw, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Moran: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Fegan: Theophilus Francis Rodenbough, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ralph Kenna: FraochmacFidachFoltruad, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Auchmuty Sproule: Robert Auchmuty Sproule, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Morris: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Madigan: Slelig, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Feargal O'Rourke: Mark James, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Harris: A. Lesage Photographer, Sackville Street Dublin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Flynn: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Moffatt: Unknown. Digitised by the State Library of Queensland, 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).