#1Famous people · Glocester
4 famous people were born in Glocester from 1818 to 1994
Articles in 8 languages make the American politician Charles H. Page the best known. Second place goes to the American politician George H. Browne, third to McKenzie Meehan. Charles H. Page was born in 1843. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 3.9, close to the 3.4 of the typical Rhode Island town.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Charles H. Page
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1818
George H. Browne
Youngest
1994
McKenzie Meehan
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
The best known
Born in Glocester
Two of the three are leaders.
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What Glocester is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 3.6 times.
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Everyone else born in Glocester
1 more, best known first.
A chosen home
Also called Glocester home
Notable people Wikidata lists as living in Glocester, though born elsewhere.
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Close by, Smithfield counts 15 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Glocester 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 (8)
- Charles H. Page: ”The House of Representatives of the Fifty Third Congress” (detail), The Graphic Chicago, 1893, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George H. Browne: Snow & Farnham Publishers, Providence (1904), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jared Donaldson: si.robi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gina Raimondo: United States Department of Commerce, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Lewis Tiffany: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elisha Mathewson: Rhode Island Historical Society?, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Oscar Lapham: Snow & Farnham (Providence, RI), printer and publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nelson W. Aldrich: Photographer not credited, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons