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Music
Órla Fallon
born 1974Irish singer and songwriter
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Knockananna, Co. Wicklow
A single famous person was born in Knockananna: Órla Fallon
The Irish singer and songwriter Órla Fallon was born in 1974. Readers can find them written up in 12 languages. The neighbour with the longest list is Baltinglass, 15 km away: 9, led by Jennie Wyse Power. In all of Co. Wicklow, the famous people on record come from 23 towns.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Órla Fallon
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1974
Órla Fallon
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known
Born in Knockananna
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Baltinglass counts 9 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Knockananna
Who is the most famous person from Knockananna?
Órla Fallon (Irish singer and songwriter) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 12 languages.
How many famous people were born in Knockananna?
1 people born in Knockananna have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Knockananna known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Knockananna?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Knockananna’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 (2)
- Jennie Wyse Power: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Keppel: Frederick Keppel, photographer unknown., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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