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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.