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Famous people · Scottdale
Athletes stand out among the 13 famous people born in Scottdale
Ira S. Webb is the best known, with articles in 9 languages. Behind the leader come Johnny Arthur and Russ Grimm. More than half were born in the age of mills and railroads, 10 in all. Fewer than a quarter of the 982 towns in Pennsylvania with famous people list more.
Born here
13
notable people
Best known
Ira S. Webb
in 9 Wikipedia languages
First
1882
James DeWitt Hill
Youngest
1959
Russ Grimm
Most common field
Sports
8 people
What stands out about Scottdale’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Scottdale is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as performers, at 2.5 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Scottdale
Performers take two of the three places.
#2
#3Through the years
When Scottdale’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1880s, at 5.
SportsFilm, TV & StageNotablePolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Scottdale
Of the other 10, 7 are athletes.
Bowman Foster Ashe
1885–1952U.S. educator/served as the first president of the University of Miami
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Only Upper Tyrone Township nearby has a name on record.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Scottdale 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 (6)
- Johnny Arthur: Goodwill Productions (as Tuxedo Comedies) / Educational Film Exchanges, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Russ Grimm: Russ_Grimm_2006.jpg: SteelCityHobbies derivative work: Crazypaco, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Onslow: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lillian Peacock: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Abraham Lincoln Keister: Fenwick Y. Hedley, author. American Historical Society (New York, NY), publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Douglas Robert Nowicki: Jcs7708, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons