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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 1830s Clear ×
Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
1833 - 1913
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
1838 - 1903
Whitley Stokes
1830 - 1909
Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne
1837 - 1913
George Alcock MacDonnell
1830 - 1899
Alfred Webb
1834 - 1908
George F. Dillon
1836 - 1893
Alexander Francis Lydon
1836 - 1917
Michael George Mulhall
1836 - 1900
John Todhunter
1839 - 1916
Ellen Creathorne Clayton
1834 - 1900
William John Fitzpatrick
1830 - 1895
Henry O'Farrell
1833 - 1868
William Manley
1831 - 1901
John Mallet
1832 - 1912
Hugh Burgoyne
1833 - 1870
Margaret Stokes
1832 - 1900
Nathaniel Hone the Younger
1831 - 1917
Charles Cameron (physician)
1830 - 1921
Frances Cashel Hoey
1830 - 1908
Edward Gay (artist)
1837 - 1928
Kathleen O'Meara (writer)
1839 - 1888
Jeremiah O'Rourke
1833 - 1915
Charles Crosthwaite
1835 - 1915
Henry Wrixon
1839 - 1913
Thomas Murphy (VC)
1839 - 1900
Charles Wynne Nicholls
1831 - 1903
Albert Grant (company promoter)
1831 - 1899
William R. Parnell
1836 - 1910
Charles Henry Hamilton Wright
1836 - 1909
John Purser (mathematician)
1835 - 1903
William Edwin Hamilton
1834 - 1902
Thomas Ambrose Butler
1837 - 1897
William Alcock Tully
1830 - 1905
Charles Edmund Webber
1838 - 1905
J. J. Francis
1839 - 1901
Emily Crawford
1831 - 1915
Thomas Welland
1830 - 1907
Thomas E. Corcoran
1839 - 1904
George Wolseley
1839 - 1921
Patrick D. Tyrrell
1831 - 1920
Barcroft Capel Boake
1838 - 1921
Harriet Osborne O'Hagan
1830 - 1921
James Mac-Adaras
1838 - 1919
John Kinloch (cricketer)
1833 - 1897
Robert Montresor Rogers
1834 - 1895
Rose Whitty
1831 - 1911
William Toomer
1831 - 1901
Arthur Hume
1830 - 1918
Peter Gill (VC)
1831 - 1868
James S. Roantree
1835 - 1873
Edward William Price
1832 - 1893
John Elkington (British Army officer)
1830 - 1889
Patrick Graham (VC)
1837 - 1875
William Kellett
1839 - 1916
Valesius Skipton Gouldsbury
1839 - 1896
Albert Callan
1839 - 1912
Marie Gebhard
1832 - 1892
Thomas Browne (Australian politician)
1838 - 1899