#1Famous people · Windsor
4 famous people come from Windsor, Charles Stark Draper the best known
Articles in 23 languages make the American engineer Charles Stark Draper the best known. Close behind are Helen Duhamel and Frank Hindman Golay. Fewer than a quarter of the 386 towns in Missouri with famous people list more. 2 of them are scientists and doctors, more than in any other field.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Charles Stark Draper
in 23 Wikipedia languages
First
1869
Winfred Joseph Sanborn
Youngest
1915
Frank Hindman Golay
Most common field
Science & Medicine
2 people
The best known
Born in Windsor
Counted by languages, Charles Stark Draper is ahead of Helen Duhamel and Frank Hindman Golay: 23, 3 and 2.
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Through the years
When Windsor’s famous people were born
4 were born in the age of mills and railroads, and the 1900s alone saw 2.
Science & MedicineFilm, TV & StagePolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Windsor is known for
Science & Medicine leads the fields, with 2 people.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Windsor 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 (2)
- Charles Stark Draper: National Institute of Science and Technology, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Winfred Joseph Sanborn: Los Angeles Evening Post-Record, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons