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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 1860s Clear ×
Roger Casement
1864 - 1916
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
1865 - 1922
George Tyrrell
1861 - 1909
Cheiro
1866 - 1936
Mary Proctor
1862 - 1957
Frederick Thomas Trouton
1863 - 1922
William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket
1864 - 1920
Henry Horatio Dixon
1869 - 1953
Francis Henry May
1860 - 1922
James Stevenson-Hamilton
1867 - 1957
Francis Vane
1861 - 1934
Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford
1864 - 1915
John Sullivan (Jesuit)
1861 - 1933
Manliffe Goodbody
1868 - 1916
Harry Plunket Greene
1865 - 1936
Alicia Adélaide Needham
1864 - 1945
Frank Stoker
1867 - 1939
Albert M. Bender
1866 - 1941
Robert Poore
1866 - 1938
John Hughes (sculptor)
1865 - 1941
Victor Le Fanu
1865 - 1939
William Augustus Adam
1865 - 1940
Kate Jordan
1862 - 1926
May Guinness
1863 - 1955
Dora Sigerson Shorter
1866 - 1918
Hamilton Reed
1869 - 1931
Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet
1861 - 1948
Hester Dowden
1868 - 1949
James Thornton (songwriter)
1861 - 1938
Andrew Clinch
1867 - 1937
Gerald Fitzgibbon
1866 - 1942
Mary Hayden
1862 - 1942
Robert Nainby
1869 - 1948
Caesar Litton Falkiner
1863 - 1908
Helen Boyle
1869 - 1957
Bettina Walker
1860 - 1893
Thomas Byrne (VC)
1866 - 1944
Herbert Molony
1865 - 1939
Charles A. Callis
1865 - 1947
P. J. Brady
1868 - 1943
Seosamh Laoide
1865 - 1939
Percy Kirkpatrick
1869 - 1954
William Wallace (priest)
1863 - 1922
Andrew Francis Dixon
1868 - 1936
Edward Harney
1865 - 1929
Walter Waddington
1864 - 1920
George Blacker
1865 - 1948
Charlie McCullough
1866 - 1898
Emil Werner
1864 - 1951
Bill Collins (catcher)
1863 - 1893
Moore Neligan
1863 - 1922
Edward O'Connor
1862 - 1932
Charles Mackesy
1861 - 1925
Henry Hugh Peter Deasy
1866 - 1947
Bill Martin (Radsportler)
1860 - 1942
Edward William James Owens
1860 - 1928
Henry Edward Cusack
1865 - 1954
Emily Patricia Gibson
1864 - 1947
Marcella Cosgrave
1868 - 1938
Francis Joseph Wall
1866 - 1947
Thomas Oloff de Wet
1869 - 1940
Mary Josephine Hannan
1865 - 1935
Eleanor MacMahon
1864 - 1956