#1Famous people · Jamestown
5 famous people come from Jamestown, Gary Bradds the best known
Gary Bradds, the American basketball player, is the most widely known, written about in 11 languages. The next two names are Evan Bradds and John Quincy Ross. Fewer than a quarter of the 715 towns in Ohio with famous people list more. 4 of them are athletes, more than in any other field.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Gary Bradds
in 11 Wikipedia languages
First
1873
John Quincy Ross
Youngest
1994
Evan Bradds
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Jamestown
Two of the three are athletes.
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#3Through the years
When Jamestown’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1940s, at 1.
SportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Jamestown is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 2.3 times as common.
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Everyone else born in Jamestown
2 more names, born between 1894 and 1935.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Jamestown 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 (3)
- Gary Bradds: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Evan Bradds: SneakinDeacon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Quincy Ross: Political Graveyard from Ann Arbor, MI, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons