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Famous people · Malden

Malden is the birthplace of 4 famous people

At the top of the list is the baseball player Chuck Locke, covered in 4 languages. Hub Pruett is second and Derland Moore third. For every 10,000 residents there are 10.5 on the list, well above the typical Missouri town’s 1.2. The first birth on record is Hub Pruett’s, in 1900, and the last Derland Moore’s, in 1951.

#2 best knownHub PruettSports · 1900–1982
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Chuck Locke
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1900
Hub Pruett
Youngest
1951
Derland Moore
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known

Born in Malden

All three are athletes.

CL#1
Sports

Chuck Locke

1932–2015

Baseball player

4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Hub Pruett#2
Sports

Hub Pruett

1900–1982

American baseball player

3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
DM#3
Sports

Derland Moore

1951–2020

American football player

2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years

When Malden’s famous people were born

More of them were born in the 1930s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.

Mills & railroadsThe American centuryToday190019502000Hub Pruett
SportsPolitics & Law

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

Known for

What Malden is known for

Athletes stand out most, at 2.1 times the usual share.

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 Malden

1 more, best known first.

KH

Kent Hampton

born 1948

American politician

Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Malden 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.

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