#1Film, TV & Stage
Bob Keeshan
1927–2004Children's television personality & host
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Famous people · Lynbrook
10 famous people were born in Lynbrook, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Most widely known is Bob Keeshan, the children's television personality & host, with articles in 10 languages. Fewer than a quarter of the 1,261 towns in New York with famous people list more. The biggest group are leaders: 3. Jack Douglas, born in 1908, is the earliest name and Brian F. Curran, born in 1968, the latest.
Born here
10
notable people
Best known
Bob Keeshan
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1908
Jack Douglas
Youngest
1968
Brian F. Curran
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about Lynbrook’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Lynbrook’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
Politics & LawFilm, TV & StageSportsMusicScience & MedicineWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Lynbrook
Bob Keeshan, Fiora Contino and P. J. Castellaneta are written about in 10, 5 and 4 languages.
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#2PC#3
Film, TV & Stage
P. J. Castellaneta
born 1960American film director and screenwriter
4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What Lynbrook is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 1.4 times as common.
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 Lynbrook
7 more names, born between 1908 and 1968.
No one matches both filters.
A chosen home
Also called Lynbrook home
Born elsewhere, Whittaker Chambers lived here.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Rockville Centre has the longest list next door: 44.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Lynbrook 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 (8)
- Bob Keeshan: Alan C. Teeple, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fiora Contino: FredericContino, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott E. Denmark: Zygt92926, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Whittaker Chambers: Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Reeves: Matt_Reeves.jpg: Ronald Woan derivative work: Nightscream, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Breuer: Aas425 (Credit: Tracy Ketcher), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Errol Morris: Bridget Laudien, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marie Severin: MichaelNetzer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons