#1Famous people · Louisville
6 famous people come from Louisville, Mirabeau B. Lamar the best known
Articles in 24 languages make the American politician Mirabeau B. Lamar the best known. Most were born in the early republic: 4 of them. Over 149 years of births, the list goes from Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798) to Spike Jones (1947). The longest list of any town in Georgia belongs to Rome, with 66.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Mirabeau B. Lamar
in 24 Wikipedia languages
First
1798
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Youngest
1947
Spike Jones
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
What stands out about Louisville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Louisville’s famous people were born
The 1790s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
Politics & LawMilitaryWriting & ArtsSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Louisville
Counted by languages, Mirabeau B. Lamar is ahead of Ambrose R. Wright and Reuben Walker Carswell: 24, 8 and 4.
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Military
Reuben Walker Carswell
1837–1889Georgia militia Confederate States Army Brigadier General
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What Louisville is known for
2 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
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Still to come: 3 more, from 1844 to 1947.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Louisville 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 (3)
- Mirabeau B. Lamar: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ambrose R. Wright: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Ambrose Wright: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons