#1Famous people · La Palma
4 famous people call La Palma their birthplace
John Lamb, the American baseball player, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. Second place goes to the American professional baseball pitcher Jacob Faria, third to Nathan Baesel. For every 10,000 residents the town has 2.6, while at least half the towns in California list nobody born there. The list runs from Nathan Baesel, born in 1974, to Jacob Faria, born in 1993.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
John Lamb
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1974
Nathan Baesel
Youngest
1993
Jacob Faria
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in La Palma
The three are covered in 5, 4 and 4 languages: John Lamb, Jacob Faria and Nathan Baesel.
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Known for
What La Palma is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 2.1 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in La Palma
1 more, best known first.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Lakewood leads the towns around it, with 30 names.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is La Palma 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 (6)
- John Lamb: Minda Haas Kuhlmann: flickr, personal website, twitter, instagram, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jacob Faria: Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Greg LeMond: MollySVH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Morris Chestnut: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tiger Woods: The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Fili Moala: Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons