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Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Aughrim, Co. Wicklow
Aughrim has one famous person on record
The Irish rugby union player Shane Byrne was born in 1971. Their story is told in 4 languages. Go 13 km to Arklow and the list grows to 12, with Róisín Murphy at the top. Across Co. Wicklow, 23 towns list someone born there.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Shane Byrne
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1971
Shane Byrne
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Aughrim
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Arklow has the most people on record, 12 of them.
Questions about famous people from Aughrim
Who is the most famous person from Aughrim?
Shane Byrne (Irish rugby union player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages.
How many famous people were born in Aughrim?
1 people born in Aughrim have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 2 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Aughrim known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Aughrim?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Aughrim’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)
- Róisín Murphy: The British Library, CC BY 3.0, 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).