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Writing & Arts
Audrey Niffenegger
born 1963American writer, artist and academic
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Famous people · South Haven
16 famous people were born in South Haven, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Audrey Niffenegger is the best known, with articles in 32 languages. The next two names are Liberty Hyde Bailey and D'arcy Wretzky. For every 10,000 residents the town has 40, while at least half the towns in Michigan list nobody born there. Born in 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey is the first name on record, and Kaliesha West, born in 1988, the most recent.
Born here
16
notable people
Best known
Audrey Niffenegger
in 32 Wikipedia languages
First
1858
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Youngest
1988
Kaliesha West
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about South Haven’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When South Haven’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1960s, with 4 people born in that decade.
SportsWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineBusinessMusicPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in South Haven
Audrey Niffenegger has articles in 32 languages, Liberty Hyde Bailey in 31 and D'arcy Wretzky in 21.
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What South Haven is known for
Set against the usual town, scientists and doctors come out 3.2 times as common.
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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Of the other 13, 4 are athletes.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is South Haven 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)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey: Liberty_Hyde_Bailey_1858-1954.jpg: shopped by R. Nonenmacher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- D'arcy Wretzky: Therobertkiss, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel K. Ludwig: United States Department of State., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pamela Carter: World Economic Forum, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Art Walker: Photographer not named (unattributed photographs in the 1955 Michiganensian were taken by students working on the Michiganensian staff), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James McCloughan: Monica King, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jay Randolph Monroe, III: Joe Mitchell Chapple, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons