#1Famous people · Eureka
6 famous people were born in Eureka from 1848 to 1981
Articles in 13 languages make the American baseball player Ben Zobrist the best known. The largest group, 3, was born in the age of mills and railroads. The list’s best known name, Ben Zobrist, dates from 1981. Half or more of the towns in Illinois have no one on record, but this one has 12 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Ben Zobrist
in 13 Wikipedia languages
First
1848
William A. Poynter
Youngest
1981
Ben Zobrist
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Eureka
Ben Zobrist, William Perry Haydd and William A. Poynter are written about in 13, 13 and 6 languages.
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Through the years
When Eureka’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
Politics & LawScience & MedicineSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Eureka is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 2.4 times.
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 Eureka
The other 3 span the years 1865 to 1927.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Eureka 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 (2)
- Ben Zobrist: Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Levi Branson "Lee" Reeder: Colmer, Montagu, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons