#1Famous people · Flandreau
Flandreau counts 7 famous people, first among them Gene Amdahl
Gene Amdahl, the American physicist, is the most widely known, written about in 36 languages. The largest group, 3, was born between 1920 and 1969. Born in 1896, Ivan Dresser is the first name on record, and Dan Sutton, born in 1970, the most recent. Only 16 of the 128 towns in South Dakota with anyone on record list more.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Gene Amdahl
in 36 Wikipedia languages
First
1896
Ivan Dresser
Youngest
1970
Dan Sutton
Most common field
Science & Medicine
2 people
The best known
Born in Flandreau
The three are covered in 36, 15 and 5 languages: Gene Amdahl, Ivan Dresser and Dell L. Dailey.
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Dell L. Dailey
born 1949Former head of the State Department's counterterrorism office
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Through the years
When Flandreau’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1920s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
Science & MedicineSportsPolitics & LawMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Flandreau is known for
The largest field is Science & Medicine, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Flandreau
4 more, from 1905 to 1970.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Flandreau 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 (2)
- Gene Amdahl: Perry Kivolowitz (Pkivolowitz at en.wikipedia), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dell L. Dailey: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons