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Conor Hazard
born 1998Northern Irish association football player
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Famous people · Downpatrick, Newry, Mourne and Down
Of the 27 famous people born in Downpatrick, an unusual share are soldiers and sailors
Articles in 12 languages make the northern Irish association football player Conor Hazard the best known. Conor McMenamin is second and E. Neville Isdell third. In the 20th century, 15 were born, the most of any period. The list comes to 23.4 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Newry, Mourne and Down, at 18.1.
Born here
27
notable people
Best known
Conor Hazard
in 12 Wikipedia languages
First
1758
David Ker
Youngest
1998
Conor Hazard
Most common field
Sports
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What stands out about Downpatrick’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Downpatrick is known for
Soldiers and sailors stand out most, at 4.1 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Downpatrick’s famous people were born
The 1950s alone account for 6 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawMilitaryBusinessWriting & ArtsMusicFilm, TV & StageFaithScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Downpatrick
Conor Hazard, Conor McMenamin and E. Neville Isdell are written about in 12, 8 and 8 languages.
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Everyone else born in Downpatrick
24 more, 8 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Killyleagh leads the towns around it, with 8 names.
Questions about famous people from Downpatrick
Who is the most famous person from Downpatrick?
Conor Hazard (northern Irish association football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 12 languages. Next come Conor McMenamin and E. Neville Isdell.
How many famous people were born in Downpatrick?
27 people born in Downpatrick have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 31 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Downpatrick known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 10 of the 27. That is 37% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Downpatrick?
David Ker, born in 1758. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Downpatrick?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Downpatrick’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 (9)
- Conor Hazard: Werner100359, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- E. Neville Isdell: World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Ritchie: ©House of Lords / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Colin McGrath: Colin McGrath, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Wheeler: Drew de F Fawkes, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William J. McRoberts: Gardner Photo (Life time: unknown), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Ker: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hans Sloane: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Hutcheson: Allan Ramsay, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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