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Science & Medicine
Preston Cloud
1912–1991American earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist
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Famous people · Upton
Preston Cloud tops a list of 7 famous people born in Upton
With articles in 14 languages, Preston Cloud is the most widely known. Over 260 years of births, the list goes from Samuel Taft (1735) to Rachel Bloznalis (1995). 3 of them were born in the age of mills and railroads, more than in any other period. The list comes to 8.5 for every 10,000 residents, against 4.5 in the typical town in Massachusetts.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Preston Cloud
in 14 Wikipedia languages
First
1735
Samuel Taft
Youngest
1995
Rachel Bloznalis
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Upton
Ranked by languages covered: Preston Cloud with 14, then Rachel Bloznalis with 4 and Doc Curley with 3.
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Through the years
When Upton’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1910s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
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What Upton is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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Everyone else born in Upton
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The longest list nearby is Milford’s, with 25.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Upton 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)
- Elijah B. Stoddard: Rice, Franklin Pierce, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Taft: Ksherin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Adams Whipple: Francis D'Avignon (1813-1861), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Merrill: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eli Thayer: Tucker, E. S., Publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eli Whitney: Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dana Gould: Lucha VaVOOM: Inside Amercia's Most Outrageous Show from USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Prentiss Armsby: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons