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Photo: Bill Whittaker · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Clear Lake
From 1883 to 1999, Clear Lake was the birthplace of 6 famous people
Articles in 6 languages make the American scientist Robert Allan Phillips the best known. Second and third on the list are Trevor Penning and Max McGraw. More than half were born in the age of mills and railroads, 5 in all. The list comes to 7.9 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Iowa, at 11.1.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Robert Allan Phillips
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1883
Max McGraw
Youngest
1999
Trevor Penning
Most common field
Science & Medicine
2 people
The best known
Born in Clear Lake
Robert Allan Phillips has articles in 6 languages, Trevor Penning in 4 and Max McGraw in 2.
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Through the years
When Clear Lake’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1880s than in any other decade: 3.
Science & MedicineSportsBusinessPolitics & LawWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Clear Lake is known for
The field with the most names is Science & Medicine: 2.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Clear Lake
3 more, from 1885 to 1917.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Clear Lake 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.