Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Ballyknockan has no famous person on record yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Naas, 17 km away: 23, led by John de Robeck. No town in Co. Wicklow lists more than Bray, with 44. Wicklow has the second-longest list in Co. Wicklow, after Bray, with 32. In all of Co. Wicklow, the famous people on record come from 23 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ballyknockan’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ballyknockan yet.
Famous people born near Ballyknockan
Nearby, Naas has the most on record, with 23.
Naas · 17 kmJohn de Robeck & 22 more
Kill · 17 kmLiam O'Flynn & 5 more
Blessington · 8 kmNinette de Valois & 2 moreMSRathcoole · 19 kmMichelle Smith & 2 moreMDDunlavin · 14 kmMark Deering & 1 more
Kilcullen · 17 kmAbraham Boulger & 1 moreKWSaggart · 20 kmKathleen Watkins & 1 moreCMSallins · 20 kmCharlie McCreevy & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Ballyknockan
Who counts as from Ballyknockan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballyknockan’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 (4)
- John de Robeck: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam O'Flynn: Ganainm, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ninette de Valois: Rob Croes for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Abraham Boulger: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, 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).