#1Famous people · Whiteland
4 famous people call Whiteland their birthplace
Articles in 4 languages make the American racing driver Bob Glidden the best known. Close behind are George Crowe and Jim Duggan. For every 10,000 residents the town has 7.7, while at least half the towns in Indiana list nobody born there. The earliest on the list is Jim Duggan, born in 1885, and the youngest Bob Glidden, born in 1944.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Bob Glidden
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1885
Jim Duggan
Youngest
1944
Bob Glidden
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Whiteland
Ranked by languages covered: Bob Glidden with 4, then George Crowe with 4 and Jim Duggan with 3.
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#3Through the years
When Whiteland’s famous people were born
The 1940s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Whiteland
1 more, best known first.
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Close by, Franklin counts 19 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Whiteland 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 (5)
- Bob Glidden: Jack Pine, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Crowe: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Duggan: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jon Schaffer: Markus Felix, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Trayce Jackson-Davis: The Hoosier from Bloomington, IN, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons