6 famous people call Lake Mills their birthplace
Articles in 6 languages make the American chemist Laura Lee Kiessling the best known. Most were born between 1920 and 1969: 4 of them. Louis Wescott Myers, born in 1872, is the earliest name and Laura Lee Kiessling, born in 1960, the latest. Only 131 of the 672 towns in Wisconsin with anyone on record list more.

Born in Lake Mills
Counted by languages, Laura Lee Kiessling is ahead of Carleton B. Joeckel and Jim Wilson: 6, 3 and 3.
When Lake Mills’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1960s than in any other decade: 1.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
What Lake Mills is known for
Politics & Law leads the fields, with 2 people.
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Everyone else born in Lake Mills
A further 3 follow, born between 1872 and 1932.

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Famous people from the towns next door
One town around it has anyone on record.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Lake Mills 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 (2)
- Louis Wescott Myers: State of California, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank E. Beatty: Harris & Ewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
