SE#1
Politics & Law
Seán Etchingham
1870–1923Irish politician (1870-1923)
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Simon Mortimer · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Courtown, Co. Wexford
2 famous people call Courtown their birthplace
The best known is the Irish politician Seán Etchingham, with articles in 5 languages. The list has one more: the Canadian politician Nehemiah George Massey. Michael W. D'Arcy heads the list in Gorey, 6 km away, which has 13 names. The earliest on the list is Seán Etchingham, born in 1870, and the youngest Nehemiah George Massey, born in 1903.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Seán Etchingham
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1870
Seán Etchingham
Youngest
1903
Nehemiah George Massey
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Courtown
NM#2
Politics & Law
Nehemiah George Massey
1903–1964Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Courtown, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Courtown
Who is the most famous person from Courtown?
Seán Etchingham (Irish politician (1870-1923)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Nehemiah George Massey.
How many famous people were born in Courtown?
2 people born in Courtown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Courtown known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 2. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Courtown?
Seán Etchingham, born in 1870. The youngest on the list was born in 1903.
Who counts as from Courtown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Courtown’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)
- Michael W. D'Arcy: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Róisín Murphy: The British Library, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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