#1Famous people · Arklow, Co. Wicklow
Arklow counts 12 famous people, first among them Róisín Murphy
Róisín Murphy, the Irish singer-songwriter, is the most widely known, written about in 40 languages. The Irish middle-distance runner Ron Delany ranks second, ahead of Daniel Murray. Since 1970, 5 were born, the most of any period. The list comes to 9 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Co. Wicklow, at 9.
Born here
12
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Róisín Murphy
40 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1768
Daniel Murray
Youngest
1997
Daire O'Connor
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Arklow’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Arklow’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2 births.
SportsFaithMusicScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageBusinessWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Arklow
By how many languages cover them, Róisín Murphy comes first (40), then Ron Delany (26) and Daniel Murray (8).
#1
#2Sports
Ron Delany
1935–2026Irish middle-distance runner (1935–2026)
26 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Known for
What Arklow is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 5 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Arklow
Here are 9 more, born from 1851 to 1997.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Gorey’s, with 13.
Questions about famous people from Arklow
Who is the most famous person from Arklow?
Róisín Murphy (Irish singer-songwriter) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 40 languages. Next come Ron Delany and Daniel Murray.
How many famous people were born in Arklow?
12 people born in Arklow have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Arklow known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 12. That is 42% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Arklow?
Daniel Murray, born in 1768. The youngest on the list was born in 1997.
Who counts as from Arklow?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Arklow’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 (5)
- Róisín Murphy: The British Library, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ron Delany: United Press, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Murray: Wendy Johnson, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Theresa Kearney: Brgold2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael W. D'Arcy: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, 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).