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Famous people · Thatcher
3 famous people call Thatcher their birthplace
Articles in 8 languages make the computer pioneer Frank Wanlass the best known. Close behind are Del M. Clawson and Jeremy Nelson. For every 10,000 residents the town has 5.5, while at least half the towns in Arizona list nobody born there. Safford, which borders it, has 8 on its list, the best known Elliot Johnson.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Frank Wanlass
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1914
Del M. Clawson
Youngest
1933
Frank Wanlass
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 people
The best known
Born in Thatcher
Frank Wanlass leads with articles in 8 languages, ahead of Del M. Clawson (6) and Jeremy Nelson (1).
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What Thatcher is known for
Science & Medicine leads the fields, with 1 people.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Thatcher and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (2)
- Del M. Clawson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elliot Johnson: Keith Allison on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons