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Na'Taki Osborne Jelks
American environmental scientist
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Famous people · Walnut Grove
Walnut Grove is the birthplace of 6 famous people
At the top of the list is the American environmental scientist Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, covered in 8 languages. The next two names are Sue Gunter and Homer H. Casteel. Most were born between 1920 and 1969: 3 of them. The first birth on record is Homer H. Casteel’s, in 1878, and the last Jerrion Ealy’s, in 2000.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Na'Taki Osborne Jelks
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1878
Homer H. Casteel
Youngest
2000
Jerrion Ealy
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Walnut Grove
Counted by languages, Na'Taki Osborne Jelks is ahead of Sue Gunter and Homer H. Casteel: 8, 4 and 2.
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When Walnut Grove’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1930s, with 1 people born in that decade.
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What Walnut Grove is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Walnut Grove 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 (3)
- Na'Taki Osborne Jelks: MethanoJen, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Homer H. Casteel: Dunbar Rowland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Norman Brooks: Greystone Photographers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons