FR#1
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow
The 3 famous people born in Rathdrum, led by Frank Robinson
Most widely known is Frank Robinson, the field hockey player, with articles in 13 languages. Second and third on the list are James Everett and Maire Comerford. Just 13 km away, Wicklow’s list holds 32 names, Paul McShane the best known. The earliest on the list is Frank Robinson, born in 1886, and the youngest James Everett, born in 1894.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Frank Robinson
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1886
Frank Robinson
Youngest
1894
James Everett
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Rathdrum
Languages with an article: 13 for Frank Robinson, 5 for James Everett, 4 for Maire Comerford.
JE#2
Politics & Law
James Everett
1894–1967Irish politician (1894-1967)
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
MC#3
Writing & Arts
Maire Comerford
1893–1982Irish republican
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Rathdrum is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 1 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Wicklow has the most people on record, 32 of them.
Questions about famous people from Rathdrum
Who is the most famous person from Rathdrum?
Frank Robinson (field hockey player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 13 languages. Next come James Everett and Maire Comerford.
How many famous people were born in Rathdrum?
3 people born in Rathdrum have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Rathdrum known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 3. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rathdrum?
Frank Robinson, born in 1886. The youngest on the list was born in 1894.
Who counts as from Rathdrum?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rathdrum’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)
- Paul McShane: Michael Kranewitter, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- 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).