Dublin
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.
People Born in Dublin
Go to all RankingsOscar Wilde
WRITER
1854 - 1900
HPI: 79.81
Rank: 1
Jonathan Swift
WRITER
1667 - 1745
HPI: 77.06
Rank: 2
Michael Gambon
ACTOR
1940 - 2023
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 3
Francis Bacon
PAINTER
1909 - 1992
HPI: 74.18
Rank: 4
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
POLITICIAN
1769 - 1852
HPI: 72.17
Rank: 5
Edmund Burke
POLITICIAN
1729 - 1797
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 6
William Rowan Hamilton
PHYSICIST
1805 - 1865
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 7
James Ussher
PHILOSOPHER
1581 - 1656
HPI: 64.83
Rank: 8
Iris Murdoch
WRITER
1919 - 1999
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 9
Bono
MUSICIAN
1960 - Present
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 10
Gabriel Byrne
ACTOR
1950 - Present
HPI: 62.50
Rank: 11
Brendan Gleeson
ACTOR
1955 - Present
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Dublin
Go to all RankingsArnaud-Michel d'Abbadie
EXPLORER
1815 - 1893
HPI: 49.11
Rank: 61
Sydney, Lady Morgan
WRITER
1776 - 1859
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 89
William Stokes
PHYSICIAN
1804 - 1878
HPI: 44.12
Rank: 95
Michael O'Leary
BUSINESSPERSON
1961 - Present
HPI: 43.77
Rank: 99
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
SCULPTOR
1848 - 1907
HPI: 41.56
Rank: 114
Orla Brady
ACTOR
1961 - Present
HPI: 40.69
Rank: 118
Genevieve O'Reilly
ACTOR
1977 - Present
HPI: 37.43
Rank: 134
Francis Magee
ACTOR
1959 - Present
HPI: 33.47
Rank: 142
Gavin Bazunu
SOCCER PLAYER
2002 - Present
HPI: 30.37
Rank: 150
Ruth Bradley
ACTOR
1987 - Present
HPI: 23.12
Rank: 168
Stephen Henderson
COACH
1988 - Present
HPI: 19.88
Rank: 175
Adam Rooney
SOCCER PLAYER
1988 - Present
HPI: 16.83
Rank: 183
People Deceased in Dublin
Go to all RankingsJonathan Swift
WRITER
1667 - 1745
HPI: 77.06
Rank: 1
William Rowan Hamilton
PHYSICIST
1805 - 1865
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 2
John Boyd Dunlop
INVENTOR
1840 - 1921
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 3
Éamon de Valera
POLITICIAN
1882 - 1975
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 4
Francis Hutcheson
PHILOSOPHER
1694 - 1746
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 5
Francesco Geminiani
COMPOSER
1687 - 1762
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 6
Jan Łukasiewicz
MATHEMATICIAN
1878 - 1956
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 7
Shane MacGowan
SINGER
1957 - 2023
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 8
George Francis FitzGerald
PHYSICIST
1851 - 1901
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 9
Sheridan Le Fanu
WRITER
1814 - 1873
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 10
Patrick O'Brian
WRITER
1914 - 2000
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 11
Charles Maturin
WRITER
1780 - 1824
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Dublin
Go to all RankingsJohn Cranko
DANCER
1927 - 1973
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 22
Anne Buttimer
GEOGRAPHER
1938 - 2017
HPI: 43.30
Rank: 48
Jimmy T. Murakami
FILM DIRECTOR
1933 - 2014
HPI: 42.15
Rank: 51
Felicia Hemans
WRITER
1793 - 1835
HPI: 40.60
Rank: 52
Michael Davitt
WRITER
1846 - 1906
HPI: 38.33
Rank: 57
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).
Occupational Trends
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.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Dublin since 1700.