#1Famous people · Larksville
4 famous people call Larksville their birthplace
Articles in 4 languages make the American football player Connor McGovern the best known. Second place goes to the American football player Edward Burke, third to Frank O'Connell. From Edward Burke to Connor McGovern, the births on the list run from 1907 to 1997. For every 10,000 residents the town has 9.4, while at least half the towns in Pennsylvania list nobody born there.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Connor McGovern
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1907
Edward Burke
Youngest
1997
Connor McGovern
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Larksville
By how many languages cover them, Connor McGovern comes first (4), then Edward Burke (3) and Frank O'Connell (2).
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Politics & Law
Frank O'Connell
1923–2004American politician Member of the Pennsylvania State Senate and House of Representatives
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Through the years
When Larksville’s famous people were born
The 1920s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Larksville is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 2.1 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 Larksville
1 more, best known first.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Wilkes-Barre has the most on record: 40.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Larksville 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 (3)
- Connor McGovern: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Daniel Phillips: NIST, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Albert Kurland: Mark Cohen, CC0, Wikimedia Commons