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Famous people · Greenfield
10 famous people were born in Greenfield, more of them athletes than in most towns
Articles in 16 languages make the American basketball player Brandin Podziemski the best known. The largest group, 4, was born between 1920 and 1969. 3 of them were born since 1970. For every 10,000 residents the town has 2.7, while at least half the towns in Wisconsin list nobody born there.
Born here
10
notable people
Best known
Brandin Podziemski
in 16 Wikipedia languages
First
1844
May Wright Sewall
Youngest
2003
Brandin Podziemski
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Greenfield’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Greenfield’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
SportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Greenfield is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 2 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Greenfield
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Everyone else born in Greenfield
Another 7, the earliest born in 1888.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Milwaukee lists the most people: 29.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Greenfield 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 (8)
- Alan Kulwicki: jbspec7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- May Wright Sewall: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Turk: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joel Stave: Phil Roeder from Des Moines, IA, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Wieland: Penni Gladstone, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gene Wilder: Warner Brothers/Tandem Production, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Liberace: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ariana Hilborn: Citizen59, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons