#1Famous people · Bastrop
22 famous people from Bastrop, many of them athletes
Bob Love, the American basketball player, is the most widely known, written about in 21 languages. Second and third on the list are Bill Dickey and Luther E. Hall. Between 1920 and 1969, 11 were born, the most of any period. The list is still growing: 8 were born since 1970.
Born here
22
notable people
Best known
Bob Love
in 21 Wikipedia languages
First
1869
Luther E. Hall
Youngest
1994
Denzel Devall
Most common field
Sports
16 people
What stands out about Bastrop’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Bastrop is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 2 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Bastrop’s famous people were born
The 1990s saw the most births of any decade: 4.
SportsPolitics & LawMusicBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Bastrop
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Everyone else born in Bastrop
Here are 19 more, born from 1880 to 1994.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Bastrop 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 (8)
- Bob Love: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Dickey: Harris & Ewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Luther E. Hall: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dylan Scott: Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mel McGaha: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Johnson: Unaka Atkins, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rueben Randle: Marianne O'Leary, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Claude Wroten: John Martinez Pavliga from Chicago. Cropped by User:Blueag9., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons