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Jennie Wyse Power
1858–1941Irish politician, activist, feminist and businesswoman
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Famous people · Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow
9 famous people were born in Baltinglass, more of them leaders than in most towns
Jennie Wyse Power leads the list, covered in 8 languages. The Irish politician Billy Timmins ranks second, ahead of Godfrey Timmins. 3 of them were born between 1922 and 1969, more than in any other period. Born in 1786, John Thomond O'Brien is the first name on record, and Peadar Timmins, born in 1994, the most recent.
Born here
9
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jennie Wyse Power
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1786
John Thomond O'Brien
Youngest
1994
Peadar Timmins
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What stands out about Baltinglass’ famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Baltinglass is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 2.8 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Baltinglass’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1950s, at 2.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Baltinglass
All three are leaders.
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Godfrey Timmins
1927–2001Irish politician (1927-2001)
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Everyone else born in Baltinglass
Another 6, the earliest born in 1786.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Carlow has the most on record, with 39.
Questions about famous people from Baltinglass
Who is the most famous person from Baltinglass?
Jennie Wyse Power (Irish politician, activist, feminist and businesswoman) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Billy Timmins and Godfrey Timmins.
How many famous people were born in Baltinglass?
9 people born in Baltinglass have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Baltinglass known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 4 of the 9. That is 44% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Baltinglass?
John Thomond O'Brien, born in 1786. The youngest on the list was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Baltinglass?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Baltinglass’ 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)
- Jennie Wyse Power: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Thomond O'Brien: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Lyttleton Rogers: Unknown (Bassano Ltd), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Keppel: Frederick Keppel, photographer unknown., 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).