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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 1870s Clear ×
Patrick Pearse
1879 - 1916
Arthur Griffith
1872 - 1922
Sara Allgood
1879 - 1950
Oliver St. John Gogarty
1878 - 1957
Cathal Brugha
1874 - 1922
Freeman Wills Crofts
1879 - 1957
John Boland (Irish nationalist politician)
1870 - 1958
Dudley Digges (actor)
1879 - 1947
R. A. Stewart Macalister
1870 - 1950
William Desmond (actor)
1878 - 1949
Violet Gibson
1876 - 1956
Hilda Petrie
1871 - 1956
Gordon Morgan Holmes
1876 - 1965
Michael Mallin
1874 - 1916
Lola Ridge
1873 - 1941
Walter Gordon Wilson
1874 - 1957
Lucien Bull
1876 - 1972
Frederick Maurice (soldier)
1871 - 1951
Robert Tressell
1870 - 1911
Hugh Kennedy
1879 - 1936
George Townshend (Bahá'í)
1876 - 1957
William Fay
1872 - 1947
Michael Begley (rower)
1872 - 1938
Arthur Johnson (footballer, born 1879)
1879 - 1920
Paschal Robinson
1870 - 1948
Edmund Dwyer-Gray
1870 - 1945
Thomas Crean
1873 - 1923
Louis Magee
1874 - 1945
Laurence O'Neill
1874 - 1943
Hugh Law (Cumann na nGaedheal politician)
1872 - 1943
Arthur Clery
1879 - 1932
Ethel Hobday
1872 - 1947
Arthur Du Cros
1871 - 1955
Joseph Magee
1870 - 1924
Gerry Doran
1877 - 1943
Roger Sweetman
1874 - 1954
Auston Rotheram
1876 - 1947
Lily Williams
1874 - 1940
Eileen Barnes
1876 - 1956
Edward Joseph Byrne
1872 - 1940
Timothy Sullivan (Irish judge)
1874 - 1949
James Creed Meredith
1875 - 1942
Myra Kelly
1875 - 1910
Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan
1874 - 1948
Con Lucid
1874 - 1931
Percy Redfern Creed
1874 - 1964
George Fitz-Hardinge Berkeley
1870 - 1955
Lilian Stevenson
1870 - 1960
Charles E. Whittaker
1877 - 1953
Florence Stoney
1870 - 1932
Margaret Dobbs
1871 - 1962
Rudolf Maximilian Butler
1872 - 1943
Albert Power (priest)
1870 - 1948
William Alphonsus Scott
1871 - 1921
John Coffey
1877 - 1945
John Mullan (Australian politician)
1871 - 1941
Harry Lambart
1876 - 1949
Cecil Boyd
1875 - 1942
Bob Lambert (cricketer)
1874 - 1956
William Henry Beach
1871 - 1952
Patrick Reid (Medal of Honor)
1875 - 1924
Charles Wellesley
1873 - 1946
Kit Poole
1875 - 1965
Charles Rooke
1870 - 1946
Edmund Forrest
1870 - 1902
Robert Carroll (Australian politician)
1876 - 1940
Pauline Adams
1874 - 1957
Ella Webb
1877 - 1946
William Morrow (publisher)
1873 - 1931
Richard O'Carroll
1876 - 1916
P. T. Daly
1870 - 1943
William Crozier (cricketer)
1873 - 1916
Sir Stanley Cochrane, 1st Baronet
1877 - 1949
William Stanley (Hawaii)
1872 - 1939
Charles Vincent Fox
1877 - 1928
Esmond Martelli
1878 - 1926
James Charles Brady
1876 - 1962
Lily O'Brennan
1878 - 1948
Edwin Maurice Solomons
1879 - 1964
Thomas Collins (bishop of Meath)
1873 - 1927
Brandon Tynan
1875 - 1967
Lorcan George Sherlock
1874 - 1945