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Photo: Chris Gorringe · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Rosslare, Co. Wexford
Rosslare is the birthplace of 2 famous people
At the top of the list is the Irish hurler Liam Griffin, covered in 2 languages. The other is Rod Guiney, the Irish hurler. From Liam Griffin in 1945 to Rod Guiney in 1970, the births cover 25 years. The neighbour with the longest list is Wexford, 9 km away: 99, led by John Banville.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Liam Griffin
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1945
Liam Griffin
Youngest
1970
Rod Guiney
The best known
Born in Rosslare
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Wexford lists the most people: 99.
Questions about famous people from Rosslare
Who is the most famous person from Rosslare?
Liam Griffin (Irish hurler) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Rod Guiney.
How many famous people were born in Rosslare?
2 people born in Rosslare have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rosslare?
Liam Griffin, born in 1945. The youngest on the list was born in 1970.
Who counts as from Rosslare?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rosslare’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
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).