#1Famous people · Florida
4 famous people were born in Florida
The best known is the American politician William Thomas Byrne, with articles in 5 languages. John W. Cady and Abram Newkirk Littlejohn follow. Leaders make up the largest group, 2 of them. The list comes to 14.9 for every 10,000 residents, against 3.9 in the typical town in New York.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
William Thomas Byrne
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1790
John W. Cady
Youngest
1876
William Thomas Byrne
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Florida
William Thomas Byrne has articles in 5 languages, John W. Cady in 4 and Abram Newkirk Littlejohn in 2.
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#3Through the years
When Florida’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1870s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
Politics & LawFaithNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Florida is known for
Leaders are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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 Florida
1 more, best known first.
The town’s pick
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Amsterdam has the most people on record, 37 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Florida 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 (5)
- William Thomas Byrne: US Government Printing Office., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Abram Newkirk Littlejohn: Perry, William Stevens, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kirk Douglas: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ira Harris: Mathew Brady or Levin Handy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Wilcock: Frank Jurgen-Richter, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons