Bartlett is the birthplace of 5 famous people
Articles in 4 languages make the American baseball player Jacob Wilson the best known. Close behind are Sammy Swindell and Daniel Wright. The largest group, 4, was born since 1970. For its size the list is short: 0.9 for every 10,000 residents, against 2.9 in the typical Tennessee town.
What stands out about Bartlett’s famous people
When Bartlett’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1990s, at 3.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Born in Bartlett
Three names lead: Jacob Wilson (4 languages), Sammy Swindell (4) and Daniel Wright (2).
#2Everyone else born in Bartlett
Of the other 2, 2 are athletes.

No one matches both filters.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Memphis counts 30 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Bartlett 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 (4)
- Sammy Swindell: Ted Van Pelt from Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eric Hanhold: Flickr user slgckgc, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Morgan Freeman: U.S. Secretary of Defense, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam Moll: Scott U, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

