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Photo: GeoffreyLong · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Mason
4 famous people call Mason their birthplace
At the top of the list is the American football player Hugh Wolfe, covered in 3 languages. The American baseball player Lindsay Brown ranks second, ahead of Jim Baird. More are athletes than anything else, 4 in all. Wanda Harper Bush, born in 1931, is the youngest, and Jim Baird, born in 1874, the first on record.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Hugh Wolfe
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1874
Jim Baird
Youngest
1931
Wanda Harper Bush
Most common field
Sports
4 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
The best known
Born in Mason
All three are athletes.
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JB#3
Through the years
When Mason’s famous people were born
3 were born in the age of mills and railroads, and the 1910s alone saw 2.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Mason
1 more, best known first.
A chosen home
Also called Mason home
One more notable person made the town home: O. L. Bodenhamer.
O. L. Bodenhamer
1891–1933National commander of the American Legion from 1929 to 1930
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Mason 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 (1)
- O. L. Bodenhamer: University of Texas at Arlington Photograph Collection, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons