#1Famous people · Carroll
19 famous people were born in Carroll, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Nick Nurse, the American basketball coach, is the most widely known, written about in 18 languages. Born in 1897, Carl O. Wegner is the first name on record, and Adam Haluska, born in 1983, the most recent. 4 of them were born since 1970. Fewer than a quarter of the 439 towns in Iowa with famous people list more.
Born here
19
notable people
Best known
Nick Nurse
in 18 Wikipedia languages
First
1897
Carl O. Wegner
Youngest
1983
Adam Haluska
Most common field
Sports
6 people
What stands out about Carroll’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Carroll’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1940s come out on top, with 4 births.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsNotableScience & MedicineMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Carroll
Two of the three are athletes.
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What Carroll is known for
Carroll has 1.6× the usual share of writers and artists.
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Everyone else born in Carroll
16 more names, born between 1897 and 1981.
Carl O. Wegner
1897–1986American politician – Minnesota -House 1943-52 (District 29); House 1955-56 (District 29)
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Carroll 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)
- Nick Nurse: File:NICK NURSE.jpg: Nickbarden derivative work: Shakeydeal33, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur A. Neu: Vern Lundquist, Superintendent of Printing; Pam Peglow, Editor, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joel Bolger: AKSenMajority, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ken Henderson: Ticketron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons