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Science & Medicine
Louis Cutter Wheeler
1910–1980American botanist and explorer
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Famous people · La Verne
4 famous people were born in La Verne
Articles in 5 languages make the American botanist and explorer Louis Cutter Wheeler the best known. Behind the leader come Nick Lodolo and Noah Clarke. Born in 1910, Louis Cutter Wheeler is the first name on record, and Nick Lodolo, born in 1998, the most recent. For every 10,000 residents the town has 1.3, while at least half the towns in California list nobody born there.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Louis Cutter Wheeler
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1910
Louis Cutter Wheeler
Youngest
1998
Nick Lodolo
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in La Verne
Athletes take two of the three places.
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#3Through the years
When La Verne’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1990s, with 2 people born in that decade.
SportsScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What La Verne is known for
La Verne has 2.1× the usual share of athletes.
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 Verne
1 more, best known first.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Pomona counts 61 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is La Verne 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 (4)
- Noah Clarke: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Alba: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Morgan: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Buckley: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons