#1Famous people · Granville
The 4 famous people born in Granville, led by Red Ruffing
Articles in 10 languages make the American baseball player and coach Red Ruffing the best known. Second place goes to the American zoologist Charles Atwood Kofoid, third to Ed Hall. The list runs from Samuel Wilson Parr, born in 1857, to Red Ruffing, born in 1905. No town in Illinois lists more than Alton, with 65.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Red Ruffing
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1857
Samuel Wilson Parr
Youngest
1905
Red Ruffing
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Granville
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1
#2EH#3
Sports
Ed Hall
1870–1932American football and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator, lawyer, and public utilities executive
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Through the years
When Granville’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1900s than in any other decade: 1.
SportsScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Granville is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 2 people.
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Everyone else born in Granville
1 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Granville 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)
- Red Ruffing: Goudey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Atwood Kofoid: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Wilson Parr: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons