Photo: Ardfern · CC BY-SA 3.0Ballygowan has yet to put a famous person on the list
For more famous names, Belfast is 9 mi away: its list has 1,511, led by C. S. Lewis. No town in Ards and North Down lists more than Bangor, with 56. Newtownards has the second-longest list in Ards and North Down, after Bangor, with 45. The Ards and North Down lists hold names for 5 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ballygowan’s settlement and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ballygowan yet.
Famous people born near Ballygowan
The most names next door are in Belfast: 1,511.
Belfast · 9 miC. S. Lewis & 1,510 more
Lisburn · 11 miRay Stevenson & 92 more
Bangor · 11 miJosh Magennis & 55 more
Newtownards · 8 miEddie Irvine & 44 more
Holywood · 9 miJamie Dornan & 23 more
Comber · 4 miThomas Andrews & 16 moreNBMetropolitan Castlereagh · 6 miNoel Brotherston & 11 more
Killyleagh · 9 miHans Sloane & 7 moreQuestions about famous people from Ballygowan
Who counts as from Ballygowan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballygowan’s settlement (NISRA’s settlement development limit), 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 bigger area (“London”), 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) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by NISRA’s Settlement Development Limits 2015 (Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (7)
- C. S. Lewis: John S. Murray, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ray Stevenson: Mingle Media TV, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Josh Magennis: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eddie Irvine: Franmarjos, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Dornan: Dublin International Film Festival, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Andrews: Original uploader was User:Gelosia at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hans Sloane: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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