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Famous people · Carleton

2 famous people call Carleton their birthplace

Roy Hitt, the American baseball player, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. The list has one more: the American mining engineer Marling J. Ankeny. No town in Nebraska lists more than Lincoln, with 45. In Nebraska, 233 towns have someone on the list.

#1 best knownRoy HittSports · 1884–1956
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notable people
Best known
Roy Hitt
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1884
Roy Hitt
Most common field
Sports
1 people
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Born in Carleton

Roy Hitt#1
Sports

Roy Hitt

1884–1956

American baseball player

4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
MA#2
Science & Medicine

Marling J. Ankeny

?–1977

American mining engineer

1 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Carleton 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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