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Famous people · Roscoe
6 famous people call Roscoe their birthplace
Articles in 6 languages make the American actress Sally Cairns the best known. Grant Furlong and Elgie Tobin follow. The largest group, 5, was born in the age of mills and railroads. More are athletes than anything else, 3 in all.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Sally Cairns
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1885
Elgie Tobin
Youngest
1963
Mary Beth Buchanan
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Roscoe
Ranked by languages covered: Sally Cairns with 6, then Grant Furlong with 5 and Elgie Tobin with 3.
#2
#3Through the years
When Roscoe’s famous people were born
The 1880s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Roscoe is known for
Roscoe has 1.4× 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 Roscoe
The other 3 span the years 1890 to 1963.
Mary Beth Buchanan
born 1963United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania
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Around it, Allenport has the most people on record, 2 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Roscoe 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)
- Grant Furlong: S. J. Clarke Company (Chicago, IL), publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elgie Tobin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Beth Buchanan: US Attorney Office, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Phillips: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons