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Famous people · Jamestown
3 famous people call Jamestown their birthplace
Articles in 5 languages make the American bacteriologist Eleanor Albert Bliss the best known. Second and third on the list are John R. Caswell and Mary Perry Stone. Next door, the list for Newport holds 49, Mena Suvari first. The list comes to 5.4 for every 10,000 residents, against 3.4 in the typical town in Rhode Island.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Eleanor Albert Bliss
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1834
John R. Caswell
Youngest
1909
Mary Perry Stone
The best known
Born in Jamestown
Languages with an article: 5 for Eleanor Albert Bliss, 2 for John R. Caswell, 1 for Mary Perry Stone.
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What Jamestown is known for
1 of them work in Writing & Arts, the biggest field.
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Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Newport, at 49.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Jamestown 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)
- John R. Caswell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Perry Stone: Ed Stone, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Albright: IchibanNOAH, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Gonsalves: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wilder Dwight Bancroft: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons