#1Famous people · Liberty
4 famous people call Liberty their birthplace
Articles in 6 languages make the American politician Bill Dodd the best known. The American baseball player Tink Riviere ranks second, ahead of Glenn Brady. Harley McAdams, born in 1938, is the youngest, and Tink Riviere, born in 1899, the first on record. The list comes to 4.6 for every 10,000 residents, against 0.7 in the typical town in Texas.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Bill Dodd
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1899
Tink Riviere
Youngest
1938
Harley McAdams
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Liberty
Two of the three are athletes.
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Through the years
When Liberty’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1930s come out on top, with 2 births.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Liberty is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Liberty
1 more, best known first.
Harley McAdams
born 1938American physicist, microbial geneticist, and developmental biologist
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Liberty 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)
- Bill Dodd: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tink Riviere: The Sporting News, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Price Daniel: MLK Library, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons