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Famous people · Laurens
Laurens is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Articles in 3 languages make the baseball player Adrian Lynch the best known. Second and third on the list are Byron G. Allen and Donald R. Norland. Only 108 of the 455 towns in Iowa with anyone on record list more. The first birth on record is Adrian Lynch’s, in 1897, and the last Jesse Schmidt’s, in 1983.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Adrian Lynch
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1897
Adrian Lynch
Youngest
1983
Jesse Schmidt
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Laurens
Adrian Lynch, Byron G. Allen and Donald R. Norland are written about in 3, 3 and 3 languages.
BA#2
DN#3
Through the years
When Laurens’s famous people were born
The 1890s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Laurens is known for
Share of Laurens’s famous people in each field.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Laurens
1 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Laurens 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 (1)
- Jesse Schmidt: DMC511, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons