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Famous people · Camden
Camden is the birthplace of 9 famous people
Articles in 7 languages make the American Roman Catholic bishop Thomas Joseph Costello the best known. Second place goes to the American baseball player Fred Payne, third to Henry H. Holt. 4 of them were born in the age of mills and railroads, more than in any other period. The list comes to 33.4 for every 10,000 residents, against 3.9 in the typical town in New York.
Born here
9
notable people
Best known
Thomas Joseph Costello
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1831
Henry H. Holt
Youngest
1929
Thomas Joseph Costello
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Camden
By how many languages cover them, Thomas Joseph Costello comes first (7), then Fred Payne (4) and Henry H. Holt (4).
#2
#3Through the years
When Camden’s famous people were born
The 1880s top the chart, with 3 births in the decade.
SportsFaithNotablePolitics & LawMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Camden is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 3 people.
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Everyone else born in Camden
6 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Camden 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 (4)
- Fred Payne: American Tobacco Company, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry H. Holt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip H. Cooper: Brady of Washington, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Todd Gordon: Zach Catanzareti Photo, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons