#1Famous people · Cookstown, Mid Ulster
Leaders stand out among the 30 famous people born in Cookstown
Most widely known is Typhoid Mary, the infected houseworker in New York city, with articles in 46 languages. Aaron Hughes, the northern Irish footballer, comes second, with Stuart Dallas third. The list is still growing: 9 were born since 1970. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 23.9, close to the 26.7 of the typical Mid Ulster town.
Born here
30
notable people
Best known
Typhoid Mary
in 46 Wikipedia languages
First
1855
Robert Henry Charles
Youngest
2003
Terry Devlin
Most common field
Sports
11 people
What stands out about Cookstown’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Cookstown is known for
Business people stand out most, at 5.2 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Cookstown
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1
#2
#3Sports
Stuart Dallas
born 1991Northern Irish association football player
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Through the years
When Cookstown’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1990s, with 4 people born in that decade.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsBusinessFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineMilitaryMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Cookstown
27 more, best known first.
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
born 1947Irish socialist and republican political activist
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Robert Henry Charles
1855–1931British biblical scholar and theologian (1855–1931)
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William Craig
1924–2011Northern Irish politician and founder of the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party (1924–2011)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Maude Glasgow
1876–1955Irish-born American pioneer of public health and preventative medicine
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No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Dungannon has the most people on record, 45 of them.
Questions about famous people from Cookstown
Who is the most famous person from Cookstown?
Typhoid Mary (infected houseworker in New York City) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 46 languages. Next come Aaron Hughes and Stuart Dallas.
How many famous people were born in Cookstown?
30 people born in Cookstown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 32 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Cookstown known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 11 of the 30. That is 37% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cookstown?
Robert Henry Charles, born in 1855. The youngest on the list was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Cookstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cookstown’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 (15)
- Typhoid Mary: Unknown authorUnknown author. First published in the June 20, 1909 issue of The New York American., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Hughes: Садовников Дмитрий, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stuart Dallas: Jrppezza, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bernadette Devlin McAliskey: Roland Gerrits / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Henry Charles: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacqueline Burns: Frank Haug, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Katherine Devlin: JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Cricket: Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Nugent: Nicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rhona Adair: George W. Beldam, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roy Knight: Credit: Arthur Roy / Library and Archives Canada / PA-047351, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eamonn McCrystal: Eamonn McCrystal, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Owen O'Neill: Roger Green, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Niall McGinn: Alasdair Middleton from Rothesay, Scotland (www.a-middletonphotography.com), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dennis Taylor: John Dempsey, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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