#1Famous people · Marion
8 famous people were born in Marion, most of them in the age of mills and railroads
At the top of the list is the actor Frank Lanning, covered in 12 languages. Ben F. Jensen is second and Grant Gibbs third. Over 117 years of births, the list goes from Frank Lanning (1872) to Grant Gibbs (1989). For its size the list is short: 1.9 for every 10,000 residents, against 11.1 in the typical Iowa town.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Frank Lanning
in 12 Wikipedia languages
First
1872
Frank Lanning
Youngest
1989
Grant Gibbs
Most common field
Sports
3 people
Also called it home
2
notable residents
The best known
Born in Marion
Languages with an article: 12 for Frank Lanning, 5 for Ben F. Jensen, 4 for Grant Gibbs.
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Through the years
When Marion’s famous people were born
The 1870s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
SportsScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageBusinessWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Marion is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 3 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 Marion
Still to come: 5 more, from 1879 to 1972.
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A chosen home
Also called Marion home
2 notable people born elsewhere made the town home, Swati Dandekar the best known.
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Close by, the fullest list is Cedar Rapids’, at 41 names.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Marion 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)
- Frank Lanning: Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone and Ted Wilde., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ben F. Jensen: Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elijah Wood: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons