#1Famous people · Bartlesville
21 famous people were born in Bartlesville, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Articles in 22 languages make the American basketball player-coach Mark Price the best known. Markell Carter, born in 1989, is the youngest, and Rosey Davis, born in 1904, the first on record. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 5.5, close to the 6.2 of the typical Oklahoma town. 2 of them were born since 1970.
Born here
21
notable people
Best known
Mark Price
in 22 Wikipedia languages
First
1904
Rosey Davis
Youngest
1989
Markell Carter
Most common field
Politics & Law
6 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about Bartlesville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Bartlesville’s famous people were born
The 1940s saw the most births of any decade: 5.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Bartlesville
Mark Price, Patrick Cranshaw and Ted Hsu are written about in 22, 12 and 7 languages.
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What Bartlesville is known for
Bartlesville has 2.4× the usual share of scientists and doctors.
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 Bartlesville
Another 18, 5 of them leaders.
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A chosen home
Also called Bartlesville home
One more notable person made the town home: Kathleen Zellner.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Dewey lists the most people: 3.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Bartlesville 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 (10)
- Mark Price: Ubcwwong, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Cranshaw: film screenshot (American International Pictures), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ted Hsu: Andrew McLaughlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bud Adams: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ree Drummond: Business Wire, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Todd Ames Hunter: Debbie Noble, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kathryn Bullock: Douglas A. Lockard, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel J. Brown: United States Army Air Forces, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kathleen Zellner: Haoyang Zhang/KOMUnews, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ruth Mix: Ward Lascelle Productions, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons