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Joanna Shields
born 1962American businesswomen, vice president and managing director of Facebook EMEA
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Famous people · St. Marys
13 famous people were born in St. Marys, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Joanna Shields leads the list, covered in 8 languages. Behind the leader come Nate Sestina and George Albee. The list runs from John Kaul, born in 1866, to Nate Sestina, born in 1997. For every 10,000 residents the town has 10.4, while at least half the towns in Pennsylvania list nobody born there.
Born here
13
notable people
Best known
Joanna Shields
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1866
John Kaul
Youngest
1997
Nate Sestina
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about St. Marys’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When St. Marys’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1990s than in any other decade: 2.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineNotableMilitaryBusinessWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in St. Marys
Joanna Shields, Nate Sestina and George Albee are written about in 8, 8 and 6 languages.
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What St. Marys is known for
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is St. Marys 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)
- Nate Sestina: Zafer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Beimel: Keith Allison on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joan Marie Engel: Richard L. Oasen, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerard J. Campbell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Kaul: Lewis Publishing Co., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons