#1Famous people · East Troy
Mark Neumann tops a list of 6 famous people born in East Troy
Mark Neumann, the American politician, is the most widely known, written about in 10 languages. The American journalist Lorena Hickok ranks second, ahead of Eugene W. Chafin. From Harriet G. R. Wright in 1845 to Dean Dingman in 1968, the births cover 123 years. Only 131 of the 671 towns in Wisconsin with anyone on record list more.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Mark Neumann
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1845
Harriet G. R. Wright
Youngest
1968
Dean Dingman
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in East Troy
Leaders take two of the three places.
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#3Through the years
When East Troy’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
Politics & LawWriting & ArtsSportsScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What East Troy is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 2.4 times as common.
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Another 3, the earliest born in 1845.
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Nearby, Troy has the most on record, with 2.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is East Troy 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 (6)
- Mark Neumann: WisPolitics.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lorena Hickok: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eugene W. Chafin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harriet G. R. Wright: James Alexander Semple, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Myrtle E. Johnson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Doc Adkins: American Tobacco Company, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons