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Famous people · White Plains
Mark Zuckerberg and 55 more famous people were born in White Plains
168 languages have an article about the American Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg. The nobel prize winning American physicist George E. Smith ranks second, ahead of Joseph Campbell. Performers are unusually common here: 12, 2.3 times the usual share. The largest group, 30, was born between 1920 and 1969.
Born here
56
notable people
Best known
Mark Zuckerberg
in 168 Wikipedia languages
First
1800
Joseph H. Anderson
Youngest
2005
Lindsay Thorngren
Most common field
Sports
15 people
Also called it home
5
notable residents
What stands out about White Plains’ famous people
Known worldwideMark Zuckerberg has an article in 168 languages, more than anyone else from here.A town of performersPerformers make up 12 of the 56, 2.3 times the usual share.Still making names35 were born since 1950, the youngest in 2005.A chosen home5 more notable people chose to live here, Ang Lee among them.
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in White Plains
Mark Zuckerberg, George E. Smith and Joseph Campbell are written about in 168, 66 and 64 languages.
#2Science & Medicine
George E. Smith
1930–2025Nobel prize winning American physicist
66 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
#3Writing & Arts
Joseph Campbell
1904–1987American mythologist, writer and lecturer
64 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What White Plains is known for
Compared with the usual town, performers are the most over-represented field, at 2.3 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When White Plains’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1970s come out on top, with 9 births.
SportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsMusicPolitics & LawBusinessScience & MedicineNotableFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in White Plains
53 more, best known first.
Rebecca Goldstein
born 1950American novelist, short story writer, biographer, philosopher (b. 1950)
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
A chosen home
Also called White Plains home
Born elsewhere, they lived here: 5 in all, led by Ang Lee.
Anne Margaret Cooke
1907–1997African-American theater director and educator,
Film, TV & StageWikipedia ↗
Marisa Dinardo Schorpp
1962–2001American commodities broker and trader, victim of the September 11 attacks
NotableWikipedia ↗
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3 towns around it have someone on record.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is White Plains 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 (17)
- George E. Smith: Prolineserver, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Campbell: Joan Halifax, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Harbour: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ralph Waite: bekahjan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Whitmore: Campbell-Ewald Company, advertising agency for the show's sponsor, Chevrolet. Ad or publicity agencies often distributed publicity materials on behalf of studios, program sponsors and networks in the 1950s and 1960s.., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Candace Owens: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy: John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danger Mouse: musicisentropy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Duryea: Trailer screenshot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Channing Frye: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Polchinski: The original uploader was Lumidek at English Wikipedia., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Shelley Hack: ABC Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rebecca Goldstein: same, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Justin Raimondo: Robert Bruce Livingston at en.wikipedia.org, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ang Lee: nicolas genin, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel D. Tompkins: Attributed to John Wesley Jarvis (1780–1840), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gene Sarazen: National Photo Company Collection, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons