#1Famous people · Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant counts 4 famous people, first among them Larry James
With articles in 23 languages, Larry James is the most widely known. Second place goes to the united States Navy admiral John Lorimer Worden, third to Frank S. Turner. Born in 1818, John Lorimer Worden is the first name on record, and Frank S. Turner, born in 1947, the most recent. The list comes to 0.9 for every 10,000 residents, below the 3.9 of the typical town in New York.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Larry James
in 23 Wikipedia languages
First
1818
John Lorimer Worden
Youngest
1947
Frank S. Turner
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
The best known
Born in Mount Pleasant
The three are covered in 23, 7 and 4 languages: Larry James, John Lorimer Worden and Frank S. Turner.
#1#2#3Through the years
When Mount Pleasant’s famous people were born
The 1940s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
Politics & LawSportsMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
A chosen home
Also called Mount Pleasant home
Notable people Wikidata lists as living in Mount Pleasant, though born elsewhere.
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Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Ossining, at 20.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Mount Pleasant 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 (11)
- Larry James: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lorimer Worden: Mathew Benjamin Brady / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank S. Turner: User:1msulax, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James William Beekman Jr.: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Astorino: Original: Michael JohnsonCropped: Varavour, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kara DioGuardi: karadioguardi.com., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rockwell Kent: Unidentified photographer (according to SI source), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Rubin: Yoichiro Akiyama from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Taylor: Sebastian Rzepiel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ollie Harrington: Harrington, Oliver W., (Oliver Wendell), 1912-, artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Moses Quinby: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons