People
- Suffolk family of Wolverston settled here in 16th century .
- Sir Joshua Allen his son John was created Baron Allen of Stillorgan and Viscount Allen in Co. Kildare. He married the sister of Robert, the Earl of Kildare
- The famous artist William Orpen who on 27 November 1878 was born into an affluent professional and Protestant family in a house called Oriel on Grove Avenue. He became a highly successful and fashionable portrait painter, depicting Irish genre subjects; also scenes from the Western Front in World War I. He died in 1931, aged 52.
- Dermot Morgan attended school at Oatlands College and was a teacher at the Stillorgan Tech, now known as the Stillorgan College of Further Education.
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