#1Famous people · Edinboro
From 1815 to 1960, Edinboro was the birthplace of 4 famous people
Jonas Wendell, the American Christian evangelist, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. The American politician William Constantine Culbertson ranks second, ahead of Clarence B. Culbertson. More are leaders than anything else, 3 in all. Fewer than a quarter of the 995 towns in Pennsylvania with famous people list more.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Jonas Wendell
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1815
Jonas Wendell
Youngest
1960
Greg Lucas
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
Also called it home
2
notable residents
The best known
Born in Edinboro
Leaders take two of the three places.
#1
#2Politics & Law
William Constantine Culbertson
1825–1906American politician
5 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
#3Politics & Law
Clarence B. Culbertson
1869–1951American lawyer and politician
3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Edinboro’s famous people were born
The 1810s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
Politics & LawFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Edinboro is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 3.6 times as common.
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 Edinboro
1 more, best known first.
A chosen home
Also called Edinboro home
2 notable people born elsewhere made the town home, Ali Zaidi the best known.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Edinboro 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 (4)
- Jonas Wendell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Constantine Culbertson: “The U.S. House of Representatives - Portraits of Congressmen” (detail), Once A Week newspaper, 1891, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Clarence B. Culbertson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ali Zaidi: Executive Office of the President of the United States, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons