#1Famous people · Lowell
6 famous people come from Lowell, Jo Anne Worley the best known
Articles in 13 languages make the American actress Jo Anne Worley the best known. Close behind are Corbett Davis and John B. Peterson. For every 10,000 residents the town has 5.4, while at least half the towns in Indiana list nobody born there. In the age of mills and railroads, 3 were born, the most of any period.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Jo Anne Worley
in 13 Wikipedia languages
First
1850
John B. Peterson
Youngest
1955
Amy Ruley
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Lowell
Three names lead: Jo Anne Worley (13 languages), Corbett Davis (5) and John B. Peterson (4).
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Through the years
When Lowell’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1910s, at 2.
SportsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawBusinessScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Lowell is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Lowell
3 more, from 1865 to 1955.
Melvin Amos Brannon
1865–1950American biological scientist, educator, university dean and football coach at University of North Dakota
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Lowell 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)
- Jo Anne Worley: Greg Hernandez at https://www.flickr.com/photos/greginhollywood/, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Corbett Davis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons