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Famous people · Lake Mills

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.

#5 best knownLouis Wescott MyersPolitics & Law · 1872–1960
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Laura Lee Kiessling
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1872
Louis Wescott Myers
Youngest
1960
Laura Lee Kiessling
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known

Born in Lake Mills

Counted by languages, Laura Lee Kiessling is ahead of Carleton B. Joeckel and Jim Wilson: 6, 3 and 3.

LK#1
Science & Medicine

Laura Lee Kiessling

born 1960

American chemist

6 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
CJ#2
Notable

Carleton B. Joeckel

1886–1960

American librarian

3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
JW#3
Politics & Law

Jim Wilson

born 1947

American politician in Oklahoma

3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years

When Lake Mills’s famous people were born

More were born in the 1960s than in any other decade: 1.

Mills & railroadsThe American century185019001950Louis Wescott Myers
Politics & LawSportsScience & MedicineNotable

Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.

Known for

What Lake Mills is known for

Politics & Law leads the fields, with 2 people.

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 Lake Mills

A further 3 follow, born between 1872 and 1932.

HR

Hal Raether

1932–2020

American baseball player

Louis Wescott Myers

Louis Wescott Myers

1872–1960

American politician

Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
GC

Gwynn Christensen

1925–2017

American football and baseball coach

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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.

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