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Famous people · El Dorado Springs

El Dorado Springs is the birthplace of 4 famous people

Best known of all is Eugene MacCown, written about in 3 languages. Second and third on the list are Pansy Stockton and Jerry Overton. Per head, the list is long: 11.2 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Missouri has 1.2. Writers and artists make up the largest group, 2 of them.

Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Eugene MacCown
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1895
Pansy Stockton
Youngest
1941
Jerry Overton
Most common field
Writing & Arts
2 people
The best known

Born in El Dorado Springs

Two of the three are writers and artists.

EM#1
Writing & Arts

Eugene MacCown

1898–1966

American painter, pianist, writer and translator

3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
PS#2
Writing & Arts

Pansy Stockton

1895–1972

American artist

2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
JO#3
Sports

Jerry Overton

born 1941

American football player, safety

1 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years

When El Dorado Springs’s famous people were born

Births peak in the 1890s, with 2 people born in that decade.

Mills & railroadsThe American century19001950
Writing & ArtsSportsPolitics & Law

Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.

Known for

What El Dorado Springs is known for

Share of El Dorado Springs’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.

Everyone

Everyone else born in El Dorado Springs

1 more, best known first.

LP

Lynn Potter

1912–1982

American politician

Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is El Dorado Springs 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.