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Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Barntown, Co. Wexford
Barntown is the birthplace of 2 famous people
An article in one language makes the Irish hurler Brian Doyle the best known so far. The list has one more: the Irish hurler Gary Laffan. Wexford, 4 km off, can claim 99 famous people, the best known John Banville. From Gary Laffan to Brian Doyle, the births on the list run from 1975 to 1991.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Brian Doyle
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1975
Gary Laffan
Youngest
1991
Brian Doyle
The best known
Born in Barntown
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Known for
What Barntown is known for
1 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
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
Of the towns nearby, 4 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Barntown
Who is the most famous person from Barntown?
Brian Doyle (Irish hurler (born 1991)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages. Next come Gary Laffan.
How many famous people were born in Barntown?
2 people born in Barntown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Barntown?
Gary Laffan, born in 1975. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
Who counts as from Barntown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Barntown’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 (1)
- John Banville: Jindřich Nosek (NoJin), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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