#1Famous people · Shelby Township
4 famous people call Shelby Township their birthplace
At the top of the list is the American ice hockey player Josh Jacobs, covered in 3 languages. Close behind are Brad Smith and Pete Tillotson. The list runs from Samuel Odell, born in 1881, to Josh Jacobs, born in 1996. For every 10,000 residents the town has 9.7, while at least half the towns in Michigan list nobody born there.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Josh Jacobs
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1881
Samuel Odell
Youngest
1996
Josh Jacobs
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Shelby Township
Josh Jacobs has articles in 3 languages, Brad Smith in 2 and Pete Tillotson in 2.
#1#2#3Through the years
When Shelby Township’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1990s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
SportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Shelby Township is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 2.1 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Shelby Township
1 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Shelby Township 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)
- Josh Jacobs: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brad Smith: Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pete Tillotson: Unidentified (Michiganensian is the University of Michigan yearbook published by University of Michigan), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Odell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons