#1Famous people · Baldwyn
4 famous people call Baldwyn their birthplace
Articles in 7 languages make the American basketball coach Babe McCarthy the best known. Elijah Pierce and Elijah Allen Cox follow. Born in 1887, Elijah Allen Cox is the first name on record, and Babe McCarthy, born in 1923, the most recent. The list comes to 12.7 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Mississippi, at 14.3.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Babe McCarthy
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1887
Elijah Allen Cox
Youngest
1923
Babe McCarthy
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Baldwyn
By how many languages cover them, Babe McCarthy comes first (7), then Elijah Pierce (4) and Elijah Allen Cox (3).
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Through the years
When Baldwyn’s famous people were born
The 1920s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
SportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Baldwyn is known for
1 of them work in Sports, the biggest 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 Baldwyn
1 more, best known first.
Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush
1916–1991US administrator, secretary of the Democratic National Committee
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Of the towns around it, Guntown has the most on record: 2.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Baldwyn 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)
- Babe McCarthy: Mississippi State University, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elijah Pierce: Adjoajo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons