#1Famous people · Plover
From 1863 to 1984, Plover was the birthplace of 4 famous people
Most widely known is Joe Pavelski, the American ice hockey player, with articles in 20 languages. Second place goes to the American baseball player Walt Wilmot, third to Clayton K. Slack. For every 10,000 residents the town has 2.9, while at least half the towns in Wisconsin list nobody born there. Athletes make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Joe Pavelski
in 20 Wikipedia languages
First
1863
Walt Wilmot
Youngest
1984
Joe Pavelski
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Plover
Athletes take two of the three places.
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#3Military
Clayton K. Slack
1896–1976United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Plover’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
SportsMilitaryScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Plover is known for
Athletes 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 Plover
1 more, best known first.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Stevens Point has the most on record: 29.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Plover 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 (4)
- Joe Pavelski: Ivan Makarov, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Walt Wilmot: Goodwin & Company, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clayton K. Slack: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Weller: Florida Supercon, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons