#1Science & Medicine
Paul Buchheit
born 1977American computer engineer; created Gmail
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Famous people · Webster
Paul Buchheit tops a list of 11 famous people born in Webster
Paul Buchheit is the best known, with articles in 22 languages. Second place goes to the American singer Wendy O. Williams, third to Gregor Gillespie. Since 1970, 4 were born, the most of any period. Fewer than a quarter of the 1,258 towns in New York with famous people list more.
Born here
11
notable people
Best known
Paul Buchheit
in 22 Wikipedia languages
First
1837
Cassius Gaius Foster
Youngest
2000
Debra Schutt
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Webster’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Webster’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1940s, with 2 people born in that decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Webster
Paul Buchheit has articles in 22 languages, Wendy O. Williams in 21 and Gregor Gillespie in 11.
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#3Sports
Gregor Gillespie
born 1987American collegiate wrestler and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
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What Webster is known for
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Webster 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)
- Paul Buchheit: Robert Scoble from Half Moon Bay, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wendy O. Williams: Chosei Funahara, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gregor Gillespie: MMAnytt, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Azalia Emma Peet: No photographer credited, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Merton Elmer Lewis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons