#1Famous people · Gordonsville
Gordonsville’s famous people span 197 years: 4 births from 1783 to 1980
Articles in 11 languages make the American politician J. W. Flanagan the best known. Behind the leader come Philip Pendleton Barbour and Ann Marie Calhoun. J. W. Flanagan was born in 1805. More are leaders than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
J. W. Flanagan
in 11 Wikipedia languages
First
1783
Philip Pendleton Barbour
Youngest
1980
Ann Marie Calhoun
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Gordonsville
Ranked by languages covered: J. W. Flanagan with 11, then Philip Pendleton Barbour with 11 and Ann Marie Calhoun with 6.
#1#2Politics & Law
Philip Pendleton Barbour
1783–1841U.S. Congressman from Virginia and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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#3Through the years
When Gordonsville’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1800s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
Politics & LawMusicSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Gordonsville is known for
Politics & Law leads the fields, with 2 people.
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1 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Gordonsville 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)
- J. W. Flanagan: Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Pendleton Barbour: The original uploader was Ticketautomat at German Wikipedia. (Original text: unknown), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ann Marie Calhoun: GaryRuley, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marv Goodwin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons