#1Music
Kurt Vile
born 1980American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer
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Famous people · Lansdowne
9 famous people were born in Lansdowne, most of them in the age of mills and railroads
Kurt Vile is the best known, with articles in 20 languages. From Pete Conway to Kurt Vile, the births on the list run from 1866 to 1980. Half or more of the towns in Pennsylvania have no one on record, but this one has 8.1 for every 10,000 residents. Athletes make up the largest group, 3 of them.
Born here
9
notable people
Best known
Kurt Vile
in 20 Wikipedia languages
First
1866
Pete Conway
Youngest
1980
Kurt Vile
Most common field
Sports
3 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
The best known
Born in Lansdowne
Kurt Vile, Edward Hughes and Henry Willson are written about in 20, 8 and 6 languages.
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Through the years
When Lansdowne’s famous people were born
The 1910s alone account for 3 of the births charted here.
SportsMusicFilm, TV & StageFaithScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Lansdowne is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 3 people.
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 Lansdowne
6 more names, born between 1866 and 1957.
No one matches both filters.
A chosen home
Also called Lansdowne home
Born elsewhere, Tatiana Proskouriakoff lived here.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Upper Darby Township has the most on record, with 24.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Lansdowne 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 (5)
- Kurt Vile: Bill Ebbesen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve Gunn: Aires Almeida from Portimão, Portugal, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pete Conway: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tatiana Proskouriakoff: Ms. Char Solomon, biographer of Ms. T Proskouriakoff, and owner of site the image is sourced from, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lena Blackburne: Bain News Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons