#1Famous people · Atlanta
5 famous people call Atlanta their birthplace
Thomas W. Ewing, the American politician, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. Second and third on the list are Eleanor Sophia Smith and Jeremiah D. Botkin. Born in 1849, Jeremiah D. Botkin is the first name on record, and Thomas W. Ewing, born in 1935, the most recent. The longest list of any town in Illinois belongs to Alton, with 65.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Thomas W. Ewing
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1849
Jeremiah D. Botkin
Youngest
1935
Thomas W. Ewing
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Atlanta
Thomas W. Ewing has articles in 8 languages, Eleanor Sophia Smith in 4 and Jeremiah D. Botkin in 4.
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#2Music
Eleanor Sophia Smith
1858–1942American composer and music educator
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#3Through the years
When Atlanta’s famous people were born
The 1900s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
Politics & LawMusicSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Atlanta is known for
2 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Atlanta 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)
- Thomas W. Ewing: United States Senate Historical Office, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eleanor Sophia Smith: The Journal of School Music/Eunice Plumb Brant, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremiah D. Botkin: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Callaway: From collection of User:JGHowes, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons