#1Famous people · Leyden
Leyden counts 5 famous people, first among them Henry Kirke Brown
Articles in 10 languages make the American artist Henry Kirke Brown the best known. Behind the leader come Homer Taylor and John Leonard Riddell. 5 of them were born in the early republic, more than in any other period. John Leonard Riddell (1807) and Homer Taylor (1851) mark the two ends of the list.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Henry Kirke Brown
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1807
John Leonard Riddell
Youngest
1851
Homer Taylor
Most common field
Military
2 people
What stands out about Leyden’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Leyden’s famous people were born
The 1810s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
MilitaryWriting & ArtsNotableScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Leyden
Henry Kirke Brown has articles in 10 languages, Homer Taylor in 9 and John Leonard Riddell in 9.
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#3Known for
What Leyden is known for
Soldiers and sailors are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Leyden 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 (7)
- Henry Kirke Brown: Unidentified photographer (Original uploader was Daderot at en.wikipedia), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Leonard Riddell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ralph Pomeroy Buckland: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles C. Carpenter: unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jake Lacy: Greg Hernandez, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles E. Phelps: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elisabeth Bardwell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons