#1Famous people · Plain Dealing
Plain Dealing is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Joe Waggonner, the American politician, is the most widely known, written about in 6 languages. The American politician A. P. Tugwell ranks second, ahead of Bobby Smith. Born in 1889, A. P. Tugwell is the first name on record, and Greg Stumon, born in 1963, the most recent. The longest list of any town in Louisiana belongs to Lake Charles, with 67.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Joe Waggonner
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1889
A. P. Tugwell
Youngest
1963
Greg Stumon
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Plain Dealing
Leaders take two of the three places.
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Through the years
When Plain Dealing’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1910s, with 1 births.
Politics & LawSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Plain Dealing is known for
2 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Plain Dealing 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)
- Joe Waggonner: US Government Printing Office, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- A. P. Tugwell: Aleccarlsson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons