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Photo: Simon Mortimer · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
Rathnew is the birthplace of 2 famous people
The best known is the Irish musician Johnny Doran, with articles in 4 languages. The list has one more: the gaelic football manager Harry Murphy. The neighbour with the longest list is Wicklow, 2 km away: 32, led by Paul McShane. Births span 1907 to 1959, from Johnny Doran to Harry Murphy.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Johnny Doran
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1907
Johnny Doran
Youngest
1959
Harry Murphy
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known
Born in Rathnew
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Known for
What Rathnew is known for
1 of them work in Music, the biggest field.
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
6 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Rathnew
Who is the most famous person from Rathnew?
Johnny Doran (Irish musician (1907–1950)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Harry Murphy.
How many famous people were born in Rathnew?
2 people born in Rathnew have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Rathnew known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rathnew?
Johnny Doran, born in 1907. The youngest on the list was born in 1959.
Who counts as from Rathnew?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rathnew’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)
- Paul McShane: Michael Kranewitter, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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