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Famous people · Starksboro
3 famous people call Starksboro their birthplace
Articles in 4 languages make the American mining engineer Samuel W Hill the best known. Caleb Elder and Phineas D. Ballou follow. Across the town line, Hinesburg lists 10, Ossian Ray first. The earliest on the list is Samuel W Hill, born in 1815, and the youngest Phineas D. Ballou, born in 1823.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Samuel W Hill
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1815
Samuel W Hill
Youngest
1823
Phineas D. Ballou
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 people
The best known
Born in Starksboro
Ranked by languages covered: Samuel W Hill with 4, then Caleb Elder with 1 and Phineas D. Ballou with 1.
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Known for
What Starksboro is known for
The field with the most names is Science & Medicine: 1.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Hinesburg’s, at 10 names.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Starksboro 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 (5)
- Caleb Elder: ORCA Media, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ossian Ray: From the January 1888 edition of "The Granite State Monthly", Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eva Munson Smith: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Damon Wayans Jr.: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Abram Hatch: Joseph Wood photographer, 18a Norton Street, Liverpool, England, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons