#1Famous people · St. Clair
11 famous people from St. Clair, many of them leaders
The best known is the American baseball player Jake Cronenworth, with articles in 8 languages. Behind the leader come Jeremiah Whipple Jenks and William S. Linton. 3 were born in 1970 or later. Half or more of the towns in Michigan have no one on record, but this one has 19.7 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
11
notable people
Best known
Jake Cronenworth
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1838
Ezra C. Carleton
Youngest
1994
Jake Cronenworth
Most common field
Politics & Law
5 people
What stands out about St. Clair’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What St. Clair is known for
St. Clair has 2.2× the usual share of leaders.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When St. Clair’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1850s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in St. Clair
Counted by languages, Jake Cronenworth is ahead of Jeremiah Whipple Jenks and William S. Linton: 8, 7 and 6.
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#2Science & Medicine
Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
1856–1929(1856-1929) American economist
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#3Everyone
Everyone else born in St. Clair
8 more names, born between 1838 and 1974.
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Close by, China Township counts 2 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is St. Clair 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 (9)
- Jake Cronenworth: Ryan Casey Aguinaldo, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremiah Whipple Jenks: Brown Bros., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William S. Linton: An Illustrated Congressional Manual. The United States Red Book, 1896, (detail), Collection of U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ezra C. Carleton: Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Grant Achatz: star5112, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Hardy Cleland: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ted Goulait: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jennifer L. Rochon: screenshot of video by US Senate Judiciary Committee, 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