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George Taylor House · Photo: Allreet · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Catasauqua
3 famous people call Catasauqua their birthplace
Articles in 4 languages make the American baseball player Buck Freeman the best known. Close behind are Dale Matthewson and Andrew Hopewell Hepburn. The oldest name on the list belongs to Buck Freeman, born in 1871, the newest to Dale Matthewson, born in 1923. For every 10,000 residents the town has 4.6, while at least half the towns in Pennsylvania list nobody born there.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Buck Freeman
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1871
Buck Freeman
Youngest
1923
Dale Matthewson
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Catasauqua
Counted by languages, Buck Freeman is ahead of Dale Matthewson and Andrew Hopewell Hepburn: 4, 2 and 1.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Catasauqua 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.