#1Famous people · Boscobel
Boscobel is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Most widely known is Philip Bohlman, the American academic, with articles in 4 languages. Nathan Crook Twining and Otey Clark follow. For every 10,000 residents the town has 12.3, while at least half the towns in Wisconsin list nobody born there. More are soldiers and sailors than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Philip Bohlman
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1869
Nathan Crook Twining
Youngest
1952
Philip Bohlman
Most common field
Military
2 people
The best known
Born in Boscobel
The three are covered in 4, 3 and 2 languages: Philip Bohlman, Nathan Crook Twining and Otey Clark.
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#2Military
Nathan Crook Twining
1869–1924United States Navy Rear Admiral
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Through the years
When Boscobel’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
MilitaryScience & MedicineSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Boscobel is known for
Soldiers and sailors are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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 Boscobel
1 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Boscobel 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)
- Philip Bohlman: Duckduckquiche, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Crook Twining: The original uploader was Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) at English Wikipedia., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Hof: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons