BB#1
Film, TV & Stage
Brent Briscoe
1961–2017American actor and screenwriter
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Famous people · Moberly
Performers stand out among the 17 famous people born in Moberly
Articles in 20 languages make the American actor and screenwriter Brent Briscoe the best known. The list comes to 12.6 for every 10,000 residents, against 1.2 in the typical town in Missouri. Only 22 of the 387 towns in Missouri with anyone on record list more. Maud Durbin (1874) and Brad Hunt (1964) mark the two ends of the list.
Born here
17
notable people
Best known
Brent Briscoe
in 20 Wikipedia languages
First
1874
Maud Durbin
Youngest
1964
Brad Hunt
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
4 people
What stands out about Moberly’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Moberly is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is performers, at 2.5 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Moberly
Brent Briscoe, John Bailey and Brad Hunt are written about in 20, 15 and 11 languages.
JB#2
Film, TV & Stage
John Bailey
1942–2023American cinematographer and film director
15 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
BH#3
Through the years
When Moberly’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1900s than in any other decade: 3.
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Everyone else born in Moberly
Of the other 14, 4 are writers and artists.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Moberly 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 (6)
- Maud Durbin: Fitz W. Guerin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Albert McDonald Cole: U.S. Government Printing Office., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Conroy: Wayne Barker, Works Progress Administration Photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Alexander Bartlett: Steven James Bartlett Photograph licensed under CC Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 license on page 2 and photo on page 9 in https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=BAREBA-6&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FBAREBA-6.pdf., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- May Bradford Shockley: William Shockley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- M. Collier Ross: U.S. Army Office of Public Affairs., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons