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Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Ferns, Co. Wexford
4 famous people were born in Ferns
Articles in 4 languages make the Irish journalist Anne Doyle the best known. Dave Bernie, the Irish hurler, comes second, with Ian Byrne third. Births span 1948 to 1992, from Dave Bernie to Ian Byrne. No town in Co. Wexford lists more than Wexford, with 99.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Anne Doyle
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1948
Dave Bernie
Youngest
1992
Ian Byrne
The best known
Born in Ferns
Anne Doyle leads with articles in 4 languages, ahead of Dave Bernie (2) and Ian Byrne (2).
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Known for
What Ferns is known for
The largest field is Writing & Arts, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ferns
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Enniscorthy, at 32.
Questions about famous people from Ferns
Who is the most famous person from Ferns?
Anne Doyle (Irish journalist) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Dave Bernie and Ian Byrne.
How many famous people were born in Ferns?
4 people born in Ferns have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ferns?
Dave Bernie, born in 1948. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Ferns?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ferns’ 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).
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- Michael W. D'Arcy: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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