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Sports
Jim Leyland
born 1944Hall of Fame American baseball player and manager
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Famous people · Perrysburg
Perrysburg is the birthplace of 7 famous people
Best known of all is Jim Leyland, written about in 6 languages. Joseph E. Baird and Jerry Glanville follow. For every 10,000 residents the town has 2.8, while at least half the towns in Ohio list nobody born there. Births span 1845 to 1944, from Sidney Brownsberger to Jim Leyland.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Jim Leyland
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1845
Sidney Brownsberger
Youngest
1944
Jim Leyland
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Perrysburg
Athletes take two of the three places.
JB#2
#3Through the years
When Perrysburg’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1940s than in any other decade: 2.
SportsPolitics & LawNotableScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Perrysburg is known for
3 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
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Everyone else born in Perrysburg
Still to come: 4 more, from 1845 to 1927.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Perrysburg 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)
- Jerry Glanville: Jim Accordino at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmyack205/, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Donald Fraser: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kate Wetzel Jameson: No photographer credited, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons