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Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Baldwin
3 famous people call Baldwin their birthplace
John William Wevers, the scholar of Septuagint studies, is the most widely known, written about in 2 languages. Second and third on the list are Greg Gossel and John Murtha. Half or more of the towns in Wisconsin have no one on record, but this one has 6.9 for every 10,000 residents. Over the border in Eau Galle, one name is on record: Bob McRoberts.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
John William Wevers
in 2 Wikipedia languages
First
1919
John William Wevers
Youngest
1951
John Murtha
Most common field
Faith
1 people
The best known
Born in Baldwin
Counted by languages, John William Wevers is ahead of Greg Gossel and John Murtha: 2, 1 and 1.
GG#2
JM#3
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What Baldwin is known for
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The most names next door are in Eau Galle: one.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Baldwin 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.
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- Joe Klanderman: Kansas State Wildcats: K-StateOnline, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons