#1Writing & Arts
Ernest Cline
born 1972American novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter
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Famous people · Ashland
15 famous people come from Ashland, Ernest Cline the best known
Ernest Cline is the best known, with articles in 28 languages. Second and third on the list are Edmund G. Ross and Tim Richmond. 6 of them were born between 1920 and 1969, more than in any other period. Births since 1970 account for 2 of the names.
Born here
15
notable people
Best known
Ernest Cline
in 28 Wikipedia languages
First
1826
Edmund G. Ross
Youngest
1974
Tim Seder
Most common field
Sports
6 people
The best known
Born in Ashland
The three are covered in 28, 15 and 13 languages: Ernest Cline, Edmund G. Ross and Tim Richmond.
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#3Through the years
When Ashland’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1970s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
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What Ashland is known for
Compared with the usual town, writers and artists are the most over-represented field, at 2 times.
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12 more, 5 of them athletes.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Ashland 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)
- Ernest Cline: Fuzheado, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund G. Ross: Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Richmond: Ted Van Pelt, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eric Musselman: Racaldwe, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alfred P. Swineford: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur B. Williams: Frontispiece of 1926's "Arthur B. Williams, Late a Representative." US Government Printing Office., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James P. Latta: Harris & Ewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Roseboro: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons