#1Famous people · Plainville
4 famous people call Plainville their birthplace
The best known is the American racing driver Ted Christopher, with articles in 5 languages. Nick Pugliese and Barbara de Lamere follow. From Edgar Church to Nick Pugliese, the births on the list run from 1888 to 1985. The list comes to 2.3 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Connecticut, at 2.9.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Ted Christopher
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1888
Edgar Church
Youngest
1985
Nick Pugliese
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Plainville
Two of the three are athletes.
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Politics & Law
Barbara de Lamere
born 1940Activist, Queens' Liberation Front co-founder
1 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Plainville’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1950s, at 1.
SportsPolitics & LawNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Plainville is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
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 Plainville
1 more, best known first.
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Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is New Britain, at 65.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Plainville 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 (5)
- Ted Christopher: Steven Harrell from Springfield, MA, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Pugliese: boomer-44, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anna Eshoo: U.S. Congress, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Robinson: Conder, C. R. (Claude Reignier), 1848-1910, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kathleen Rubins: Robert Markowitz, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons