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DUBLIN
Most Famous People Born in Dublin, Ireland
- Notable people
- 3,490
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1946
- Most distinctive
- Cricket 2.6×
A city defined by what it sends abroad and what it keeps at home. Dublin's notables are split almost in two: a literary tradition that the rest of the English-speaking world claims as its own — Wilde, Shaw, Beckett, Swift, Burke — and a sporting culture in Gaelic football, hurling, and camogie that exists almost exclusively on the island itself. The result is a profession mix that looks both unusually international and unusually local at the same time.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Dublin during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Dublin Is Known For
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Football is Dublin's biggest profession — 21% of all notables (746).
Dublin over-indexes on cricket — 2.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Dublin's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1800s Clear ×
William Rowan Hamilton
1805 - 1865
Michael William Balfe
1808 - 1870
William Stokes (physician)
1804 - 1878
James Clarence Mangan
1803 - 1849
Richard Chenevix Trench
1807 - 1886
Lord Charles Wellesley
1808 - 1858
Charles Lever
1806 - 1872
Humphrey Lloyd (physicist)
1800 - 1881
Robert Kane (chemist)
1809 - 1890
Dominic Corrigan
1802 - 1880
Anna Maria Hall
1800 - 1881
Peter Richard Kenrick
1806 - 1896
Robert Bentley Todd
1809 - 1860
Juan Galindo
1802 - 1839
John T. Graves
1806 - 1870
William Thomas Mulvany
1806 - 1885
Samuel Blackall
1809 - 1871
Henry Lowry-Corry (1803–1873)
1803 - 1873
William Palmer (theologian)
1803 - 1885
Stephen Clegg Rowan
1808 - 1890
William Bernard McCabe
1801 - 1891
William Henry Benson
1803 - 1870
Thomas Davis (Rhode Island)
1806 - 1895
Philip Gore, 4th Earl of Arran
1801 - 1884
Armar Lowry-Corry, 3rd Earl Belmore
1801 - 1845
Robert Montgomery Martin
1801 - 1868
Henry S. Baird
1800 - 1875
William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim
1806 - 1878
George Patten
1801 - 1865
Marcus Beresford (bishop)
1801 - 1885
Mary Frances Clarke
1803 - 1887
Eliza H. Trotter
Born 1800
Francis Xavier Gartland
1805 - 1854
Thomas W. Ward
1807 - 1872
John McCaul
1807 - 1887
William Agar Adamson
1800 - 1868
John Patrick Prendergast
1808 - 1893
Elizabeth Emmet Lenox-Conyngham
1800 - 1899
John Cornelius O'Callaghan (writer)
1805 - 1883
Sir Peter FitzGerald, 19th Knight of Kerry
1808 - 1880
George Francis Mulvany
1809 - 1869
John Edward Jones (sculptor)
1806 - 1862
Thomas Matthew Ray
1801 - 1881
Harriet Dobbs
1808 - 1887
William Birmingham Costello
1800 - 1867
James Robert Brunker
1806 - 1869
John Morgan (missionary)
1806 - 1865
Luke Smythe O'Connor
1806 - 1873
John Reed (early Californian)
1805 - 1843
Hamilton Hartley Killaly
1800 - 1874
George Forrest (VC)
1800 - 1859
Helena Shearer
1800 - 1885
Thomas Lewis Ingram
1807 - 1868
Edward McDonnell (Unternehmer)
1806 - 1860