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Dublin ranks 48th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hamburg, Kyiv, and Montreal. Memorable people born in Dublin include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, and Michael Gambon. Memorable people who died in Dublin include Jonathan Swift, William Rowan Hamilton, and John Boyd Dunlop. Dublin has been the birth place of many actors, and soccer players and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Dublin is located in Ireland.

Dublin is the capital city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2022 census, the city council area had a population of 592,713, while Dublin and its suburbs had a population of 1,263,219, and County Dublin had a population of 1,501,500, making it the largest city by population on the island of Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 954 and 2004, Dublin was the birth place of 196 globally memorable people, including Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, and Michael Gambon. Additionaly, 60 globally memorable people have passed away in Dublin including Jonathan Swift, William Rowan Hamilton, and John Boyd Dunlop.

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People Deceased in Dublin

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Dublin were actors (39), soccer players (35), writers (24), politicians (18), and singers (12),  while most who died were writers (17), politicians (12), social activists (4), physicists (3), and mathematicians (3).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Dublin, including Michael Gambon, Gabriel Byrne, and Brendan Gleeson. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Dublin, including Michael Gambon, Gabriel Byrne, and Brendan Gleeson.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Dublin since 1700.