#1Politics & Law
Caroline Harrison
1832–1892First Lady of the United States from 1889 to 1892
37 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Famous people · Oxford
16 famous people come from Oxford, Caroline Harrison the best known
Best known of all is Caroline Harrison, written about in 37 languages. The largest group, 5, was born since 1970. For every 10,000 residents the town has 7.4, while at least half the towns in Ohio list nobody born there. Fewer than a quarter of the 735 towns in Ohio with famous people list more.
Born here
16
notable people
Best known
Caroline Harrison
in 37 Wikipedia languages
First
1812
G. V. Dorsey
Youngest
1993
R. J. Hunter
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Oxford’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Oxford’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 4.
SportsWriting & ArtsScience & MedicinePolitics & LawNotableFilm, TV & StageMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Oxford
Caroline Harrison has articles in 37 languages, R. J. Hunter in 15 and Earle Foxe in 13.
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What Oxford is known for
Compared with the usual town, scientists and doctors are the most over-represented field, at 3.2 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
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The other 13 span the years 1812 to 1986.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Oxford 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)
- Caroline Harrison: Copyright by Charles Parker, Washington, D.C., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- R. J. Hunter: Plan9fromtheabyss, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Earle Foxe: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John O'Brien: Alexlitbd, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edith Emerson: Elizabeth Buehrmann (1886-1965), photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David J. Eicher: DEicher116, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Erwin Hinckley Barbour: Charles Henry Morrill, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Mitchell MacCracken: University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons