#1Famous people · Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
Most of the 45 famous people born in Mullingar came into the world since 1970
At the top of the list is the Irish singer-songwriter Niall Horan, covered in 57 languages. The next two names are John Joe Nevin and Joe Dolan. The list runs from Francis Lavalin Nugent, born in 1569, to Aidan Keena, born in 1999. Athletes make up the largest group, 21 of them.
Born here
45
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Niall Horan
57 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1569
Francis Lavalin Nugent
Youngest
1999
Aidan Keena
Most common field
Sports
21 people
What stands out about Mullingar’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Mullingar’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1990s than in any other ten years, 10 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawNotableMusicFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsFaithMilitaryBusinessScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Mullingar
Niall Horan has articles in 57 languages, John Joe Nevin in 19 and Joe Dolan in 15.
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#3Film, TV & Stage
Joe Dolan
1939–2007Irish entertainer, recording artist, and pop singer (1939–2007)
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Mullingar is known for
Musicians stand out most, at 1.7 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Mullingar
42 more, 20 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Castlepollard, at 8.
Questions about famous people from Mullingar
Who is the most famous person from Mullingar?
Niall Horan (Irish singer-songwriter) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 57 languages. Next come John Joe Nevin and Joe Dolan.
How many famous people were born in Mullingar?
45 people born in Mullingar have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 52 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Mullingar known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 21 of the 45. That is 47% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mullingar?
Francis Lavalin Nugent, born in 1569. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Mullingar?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Mullingar’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 (14)
- Niall Horan: Office of the President of the United States, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Dolan: Unknown photographer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Niamh Algar: WelcomeScreenUK, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eugene Casserly: Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Oliver Joyce: Ilgar Jafarov, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Burke: Margot Murphy (Massachusetts Governor’s Press Office), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Damien Shaw: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aidan Davitt: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Flaherty: House of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Murphy: Bearas, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Henry Kavanagh: Felice Beato, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Kelly: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Alexander: Jean-Charles Langlois, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John J. Glennon: J.C. Strauss, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).