#1Famous people · Mount Hope
Mount Hope is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Articles in 5 languages make the American politician Charles St. John the best known. George Woodward Greene and Laura Woodward follow. Over 26 years of births, the list goes from Charles St. John (1818) to Nathan M. Hallock (1844). Per head, the list is long: 6.2 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in New York has 3.9.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Charles St. John
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1818
Charles St. John
Youngest
1844
Nathan M. Hallock
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
Also called it home
2
notable residents
The best known
Born in Mount Hope
Two of the three are leaders.
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Through the years
When Mount Hope’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1830s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
Politics & LawWriting & ArtsMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Mount Hope is known for
2 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
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 Mount Hope
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
A chosen home
Also called Mount Hope home
2 notable people born elsewhere made the town home, John Bonacic the best known.
John Bonacic
born 1942Republican New York State Senator from the 42nd District
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Of the towns nearby, 2 have famous names listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Mount Hope 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)
- Charles St. John: Mathew Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Woodward Greene: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John E. W. Thompson: Butt, NY (engraver), Citizen Job Print (publisher), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William H. Cuddeback: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons