#1Famous people · St. Marys
4 famous people call St. Marys their birthplace
Most widely known is Cleveland Monroe Bailey, the American politician, with articles in 7 languages. Second place goes to the American football player Billy Reynolds, third to Frank Barron. From Cleveland Monroe Bailey in 1886 to Trenton Barnhart in 1996, the births cover 110 years. 166 towns in West Virginia have at least one famous person on record.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Cleveland Monroe Bailey
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1886
Cleveland Monroe Bailey
Youngest
1996
Trenton Barnhart
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in St. Marys
Counted by languages, Cleveland Monroe Bailey is ahead of Billy Reynolds and Frank Barron: 7, 3 and 2.
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Through the years
When St. Marys’s famous people were born
The 1880s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
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What St. Marys is known for
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Everyone else born in St. Marys
1 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is St. Marys 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 (1)
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey: US Government Printing Office (Washington, DC), publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons