#1Famous people · Downingtown
9 famous people from Downingtown, many of them athletes
Articles in 52 languages make the American actor Miles Teller the best known. Since 1970, 8 were born, the most of any period. Fewer than a quarter of the 970 towns in Pennsylvania with famous people list more. For every 10,000 residents the town has 10.9, while at least half the towns in Pennsylvania list nobody born there.
Born here
9
notable people
Best known
Miles Teller
in 52 Wikipedia languages
First
1818
Mifflin Kenedy
Youngest
1999
Segun Olubi
Most common field
Sports
6 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about Downingtown’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Downingtown’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
SportsFilm, TV & StageNotableBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Downingtown
Two of the three are athletes.
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What Downingtown is known for
Downingtown has 1.9× the usual share of athletes.
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 Downingtown
6 more names, born between 1818 and 1999.
No one matches both filters.
A chosen home
Also called Downingtown home
One more notable person made the town home: Jeremy Vuolo.
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The neighbour with a name on record is West Bradford Township.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Downingtown 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 (7)
- Miles Teller: Mingle Media TV, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Becky Edwards: Wilson Dias/Abr, CC BY 3.0 br, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremy Ogden: Laxingirl, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pat Devlin: Wigstruck, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elijah Wilkinson: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mifflin Kenedy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Hickman: Julian Vannerson (1827-1875), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons