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Hayden Fry
1929–2019American football player and coach, college athletics administrator
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Famous people · Eastland
6 famous people call Eastland their birthplace
Best known of all is Hayden Fry, written about in 6 languages. Second place goes to the American baseball player Bill Reynolds, third to Richard D. Lawrence. Between 1920 and 1969, 3 were born, the most of any period. Births span 1884 to 1977, from Bill Reynolds to Glenn Thomas.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Hayden Fry
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1884
Bill Reynolds
Youngest
1977
Glenn Thomas
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Eastland
Hayden Fry has articles in 6 languages, Bill Reynolds in 3 and Richard D. Lawrence in 3.
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When Eastland’s famous people were born
The 1920s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
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What Eastland is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.4 times.
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Everyone else born in Eastland
3 more names, born between 1910 and 1977.
Barney Smith
1921–2019American master plumber and curator of museum of toilet seat art
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Eastland 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 (3)
- Hayden Fry: Asolsma1988, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard D. Lawrence: US Army, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barney Smith: Skudrafan1, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons