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Famous people · Marine City
Marine City is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Articles in 6 languages make the American screenwriter Steve Fisher the best known. Joseph E. Steinmetz and Oswald A. Powers follow. For every 10,000 residents the town has 9.9, while at least half the towns in Michigan list nobody born there. Born in 1912, Steve Fisher is the first name on record, and Michele Pearce, born in 1969, the most recent.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Steve Fisher
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1912
Steve Fisher
Youngest
1969
Michele Pearce
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 people
The best known
Born in Marine City
First, Steve Fisher (6 languages), then Joseph E. Steinmetz (3) and Oswald A. Powers (3).
#2Science & Medicine
Joseph E. Steinmetz
born 1955American university chancellor and molecular bioscience/psychology professor
3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
#3Military
Oswald A. Powers
1915–1942United States Navy Navy Cross recipient
3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Marine City’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1910s, with 2 people born in that decade.
Film, TV & StageScience & MedicineMilitaryPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Marine City is known for
Share of Marine City’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Marine City
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to China Township, with 2.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Marine City 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 (4)
- Joseph E. Steinmetz: Russell Cothren and Matthew Reynolds, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Oswald A. Powers: United States Navy photograph from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, which is in the public domain, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michele Pearce: Monica King, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Theobald Otjen: An Illustrated Congressional Manual. The United States Red Book, 1896, (detail), Collection of U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons