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Famous people · Oak Hill

4 famous people call Oak Hill their birthplace

Thomas Albert Jenkins, the American politician, is the most widely known, written about in 6 languages. The baseball player Earl Smith ranks second, ahead of Daniel E. Morgan. The biggest group are leaders: 3. Over 61 years of births, the list goes from Thomas Albert Jenkins (1880) to Bonnie Mitchell (1941).

#1 best knownThomas Albert JenkinsPolitics & Law · 1880–1959
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Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Thomas Albert Jenkins
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1880
Thomas Albert Jenkins
Youngest
1941
Bonnie Mitchell
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known

Born in Oak Hill

Two of the three are leaders.

Thomas Albert Jenkins#1
Politics & Law

Thomas Albert Jenkins

1880–1959

American politician

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Earl Smith#2
Sports

Earl Smith

1891–1943

Baseball player

5 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
DM#3
Politics & Law

Daniel E. Morgan

1887–1949

American mayor

3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years

When Oak Hill’s famous people were born

Count by decade and the 1880s come out on top, with 2 births.

Mills & railroadsThe American century19001950Thomas Albert JenkinsEarl Smith
Politics & LawSports

Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.

Known for

What Oak Hill is known for

Set against the usual town, leaders come out 3.6 times as common.

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 Oak Hill

1 more, best known first.

BM

Bonnie Mitchell

born 1941

American politician

Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Oak Hill 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.

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