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Famous people · Adamstown, Co. Wexford
Adamstown counts 2 famous people, first among them Kevin Doyle
Most widely known is Kevin Doyle, the Irish footballer, with articles in 37 languages. The only other name is the Irish actor Pádraic Delaney. Born in 1977, Pádraic Delaney is the first name on record, and Kevin Doyle, born in 1983, the most recent. Wexford, 17 km off, can claim 99 famous people, the best known John Banville.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kevin Doyle
37 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1977
Pádraic Delaney
Youngest
1983
Kevin Doyle
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Adamstown
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Known for
What Adamstown is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 1.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Wexford leads the towns around it, with 99 names.
Questions about famous people from Adamstown
Who is the most famous person from Adamstown?
Kevin Doyle (Irish footballer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 37 languages. Next come Pádraic Delaney.
How many famous people were born in Adamstown?
2 people born in Adamstown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Adamstown known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Adamstown?
Pádraic Delaney, born in 1977. The youngest on the list was born in 1983.
Who counts as from Adamstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Adamstown’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 (2)
- John Banville: Jindřich Nosek (NoJin), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael O'Hanrahan: Joy, Maurice, ed., 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).