39.3170° N, 83.8022° W
MOUNT VERNON
Most Famous People Born in Mount Vernon, United States
- Notable people
- 582
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1939
- Most distinctive
- Horse Trainer 65.1×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Mount Vernon during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Mount Vernon Is Known For
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Politician is Mount Vernon's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (72).
Mount Vernon over-indexes on horse trainer — 65.1× the global rate.
Mount Vernon under-produces writer — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Mount Vernon's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Music
- Writing
- Science
- Other
Clay Lancaster
1917 - 2000
Gabrielle Carmouche
Born 1978
Roz Kelly
Born 1943
Ethan Freeman
Born 1959
Desha Breckinridge
1867 - 1935
Robb Forman Dew
1946 - 2020
Owen Lovejoy (anthropologist)
Born 1943
Ethelbert Dudley Warfield
1861 - 1936
B. T. Collins
1940 - 1993
Garvin Alston
Born 1971
Bill English (computer engineer)
1929 - 2020
Dan Wikler
Born 1946
Lou Johnson
1934 - 2020
Margaret Keyes
1918 - 2015
Preston Brown (general)
1872 - 1948
Wheeler Walker Jr.
Born 1974
Robert Karem
Born 1977
Ollie Cline
1925 - 2001
A. Stephen Morse
Born 1939
Bruce Roberts (photographer)
Born 1930
Cornell Burbage
Born 1965
Marion M. Magruder
1911 - 1997
Janet DiFiore
Born 1955
Tom Hammond
Born 1944
John J. Gosper
1841 - 1913
Frances Mary Albrier
1898 - 1987
George Nicholas Sanders
1812 - 1873
Greg Jenkins
Born 1982
John Baltzell
1860 - 1940
Pamela Brown (journalist)
Born 1983
Charles R. Keyes
1871 - 1951
George Latimer (New York politician)
Born 1953
Harry Wolverton
1873 - 1937
Mary Frances Gunner
Born 1894
Stephen Douglass
1921 - 2011
George W. Snow
1842 - 1927
Junie Browning
Born 1985
Albert Watson II
1909 - 1993
Henry M. Beardsley
1858 - 1938
Brooklyn Shuck
Born 2005
Kevin Richardson (baseball)
Born 1980
Dwight Bernard
Born 1952
Chester Higgins Jr.
Born 1946
Brian Aker
Born 1972
Carl E. Schultze
1866 - 1939
John Tibbs
Born 1990
LaFayette Emmett
1822 - 1905
Stoll Vaughan
-
David G. Trager
1937 - 2011
Chris Lowe (basketball)
Born 1987
Mary Barr Clay
1839 - 1924
Joe Shell
1918 - 2008
Charles D. Barger
1892 - 1936
Carroll Fleming
1865 - 1930
Stephen Portman
Born 1935
Clark Janell Davis
Born 1997
Thomas Zinkula
Born 1957
Alex Dickow
Born 1979
Ed Subitzky
Born 1943
Eddie F
Born 1968
Sanders D. Bruce
1825 - 1902
Dave King (Bassist)
Born 1953
George A. Irwin
1844 - 1913
Frank LeMaster
Born 1952
Eugene Branstool
Born 1936
James Morrison Hawes
1824 - 1889
Derek Bryant (baseball)
Born 1951
Scott Arnold (baseball)
Born 1962
George B. Duncan
1861 - 1950
Bill Johnson (banjoist)
1905 - 1955
Chase Minnifield
Born 1989
Rob Kelly (American football)
Born 1974
Trent Van Haaften
Born 1964
Winnie Brinks
Born 1968
Billy Travis
1961 - 2002
Eugene F. Rice Jr.
1924 - 2008
William C. Goodloe
1919 - 1997
Henry Blanchard Freeman
1837 - 1915
Ollie Beard
1862 - 1887
Bob Babbage
Born 1951
Cary Pigman
Born 1958
Bill Wise
-
Gerald Harris Rosen
Born 1933
George Templeton
1906 - 1980
Mary E. Britton
1855 - 1925
Gwendolyn Rucker
Born 1990
Kenny Troutt
Born 1948
Marshall W. Taylor (minister)
1846 - 1887
Lisa Godbey Wood
Born 1963
Elizabeth Todd Edwards
1813 - 1888
Isaac Scott Hathaway
1872 - 1967
Sheryl M. Delozier
-
Don Eldridge
1919 - 2007
H. Foster Pettit
1930 - 2014
John T. Ward Jr.
Born 1945
George Corbett (American football)
1908 - 1990
Ed Limato
1936 - 2010
Thomas Clay McDowell
1866 - 1935
Steve Gabbard
Born 1966
Claude R. McGaughey III
Born 1951
Harry Pease
1886 - 1945
Dave Strong
1916 - 1993
David M. Smith
1926 - 1950
Jonathan Stuart Cerullo
Born 1960
Andy Karl (baseball)
1914 - 1989
Granville P. Swift
1821 - 1875
Paul Goldstein (law professor)
Born 1943
Bennie Purcell
1929 - 2016
Noel Mazzone
Born 1957
Zach Brock
Born 1974
Warren Tartaglia
1944 - 1965
Michael Griffin (escape artist)
Born 1961
Jim Stillwagon
1949 - 2018
Joe Ardner
1858 - 1935
Donna Mayfield
Born 1955
Marshall Hall (singer)
Born 1970
Bobby Maples
1942 - 1991
William Frederick Harris
1918 - 1950
Nate Morris
Born 1980
Edmund Asbury Gullion
1913 - 1998
Red Blair
1900 - 1947
Freddy Mullins
Born 1979
Jane Gentry Vance
1941 - 2014
Richard C. Lamb
1933 - 2018
Scott Elgin Reed
1921 - 1994
Sean Kelley
Born 1988
Lizzie Evans
Born 1864
William Edward West
1788 - 1857
Tony Mack
Born 1961
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Born 1975
Susan E. King
Born 1947
Ruth Ann Palumbo
Born 1949
Matt Kroul
Born 1986
Dominic Black
Born 1969
Francis W. H. Adams
1904 - 1990
Robert M. Coleman (American football)
1878 - 1941
Bradley Bolke
1925 - 2019
David Komansky
Born 1939
Gil Rogers
Born 1934
Barry Silver
Born 1956
Brian Bonner (linebacker)
Born 1965
Charles Mynn Thruston
1798 - 1873
Charlie Eden
1855 - 1920
Brad Franchione
-
Terry Vaughn
Born 1973
Kaya Henderson
Born 1970
Louise Brann
1906 - 1982
Anthony Banning Norton
1821 - 1893
Carrie G. Stevens
1882 - 1970
Shawn Wheeler
Born 1966
Kate Lee Ferguson
Died 1928
Ross Hammond
Born 1977
Tracy Strong
1887 - 1968
Matt Turner (baseball)
1967 - 2019
Kiaran McLaughlin
Born 1960
Annie May Hurd Karrer
1893 - 1984
Mary Beth Zimmerman
Born 1960
Benny Dees
Born 1936
Charles Candy
1832 - 1910
Mahogany Jones
Born 1978
Archie R. Clemins
1943 - 2020
George T. Beck
1856 - 1943
Morton M. McCarver
1807 - 1875
Willard Cantrell
1914 - 1986
Edward "Porky" Cragg
1919 - 1943
Laurance B. VanMeter
Born 1958
Brett De Palma
Born 1949
Phil Williamson
Born 1965
George Payne (baseball)
1889 - 1959
Ben Self
Born 1977
Lew Hill (basketball)
-
Vince Stevenson
1884 - 1942
Doc Rodes
1894 - 1946
Charles H. Parrish
1859 - 1931
John Brown Kerr
1847 - 1926
Eric Shelton (American football)
Born 1983
Jim LeClair (quarterback)
Born 1944
Ira Needles
1893 - 1986
Charles H. Parrish Sr.
1841 - 1931
Maria Maldonado (Miss Kentucky)
Born 1982
Edna Griffin
1909 - 2000
Lois Combs Weinberg
Born 1943
Viola Davis Brown
1936 - 2017
Mary Desha
1854 - 1911
Hogan Yancey
1881 - 1960
Tom Hayden (Texas politician)
Born 1967
Edgar Bogardus
1927 - 1958
Earl F. Martin
Born 1961
John M. Veitch
Born 1945
W. Elliott Walden
Born 1963
Theodore Johnson
1904 - 1992
Neil Chatterjee
-
Mario Merola (lawyer)
1922 - 1987
Ryan Ridder
Born 1984
H. Dale Jackson
1930 - 2003
Margaret Ruhl
Born 1956
James Cameron Watson
1890 - 1986
Brady Sallee
-
Jonathan Baker Moore
1825 - 1889
Ernest T. Cragg
1922 - 2006
Francis C. Green
1835 - 1905
James Simrall
1909 - 1982
Harold Kenneth Wood
1906 - 1972
Rosebud Denovo
1970 - 1992
Richard C. Stoll
1876 - 1949
Charles Dwelley
1908 - 1993
Joe Cowley (baseball)
Born 1958
William Withers
1864 - 1933
Joe Fogg
1882 - 1946
Ken Kerslake
1930 - 2007
Hugh McKee
1844 - 1871
Andrew B. Willison
Born 1966
Alessandra Biaggi
Born 1986
Cedeno Patrick
Born 1983
Wickliffe Cooper
1831 - 1867
John Shannon (American football)
Born 1965
Myra Blackwelder
Born 1955
Alan Schoen
Born 1924
Robert Shy
1939 - 2018
Doug Shively
Born 1937
Newton R. Casey
Born 1826
Thom Collier
-
Edward D. Brown
1850 - 1906
Joseph B. Crockett
1808 - 1884
Byron McClelland
1855 - 1897
Chase Clements
1901 - 1971
Richie Garner
-
Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley
1818 - 1862
Carey Spicer
1909 - 1996
Charles Holston Williams
1886 - 1978
Joyce Hamilton Berry
Born 1937
Josh Faga
Born 1990
William Donovan III
-
Michael Hicks (game designer)
Born 1993
John M. Sternhagen
1888 - 1954
Tom McIntosh (comedian)
1840 - 1904
Debbie Hughes
Born 1958
William Packwood
1832 - 1917
Stephen Trafton
Born 1946
Sanjay Parekh
-
Elizabeth Fouse
1875 - 1952
Jason Wolfe (racing driver)
Born 1994
Theodore Conover
1868 - 1910
Thomas Hiram Preston
1855 - 1925
Alfonso Moretti
Born 1973
Roy Thurman
1924 - 2004
Arthur R. Kudart
Born 1930
Joseph Cyrus Bradfield
1889 - 1936
Jabarie Hinds
Born 1992
Nicholas Kafoglis
1930 - 2019
John G. Baxter
1826 - 1885
William Ray
1925 - 2019
Hal Price Headley
1888 - 1962
Dick Palmer (American football)
Born 1947
Keith Williams (cornerback)
Born 1983
Anne Hazen McFarland
Born 1867
Robert Flournoy Hosford
1842 - 1924
William Elwood Steckler
1913 - 1995
Orestes H. Caldwell
1888 - 1967
Quintin Borders
Born 1988
Winbert F. Mulholland
1883 - 1968
Butch Glass
1898 - 1972
Walter C. Rollins
1857 - 1908
Terren Harbut
Born 1983
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss
Born 1940
Gene Visich
1926 - 2012
Lincoln Henzman
Born 1995
Joe Petro III
Born 1956
Tom Buford
Born 1949
Howard A. Knight Jr.
-
Hope Riley
Born 1979
Robert S. Denig
1946 - 1995
Robert W. Estill
1927 - 2019
Alfred J. Whittle Jr.
1924 - 1993
Mike Moloney (politician)
Born 1941
John Crandall (American football)
1931 - 2008
Lloyd Smith
1914 - 1999
Ollie Smith (baseball)
1865 - 1954
Ephraim S. Claybourn
1851 - 1909
Anna Byford Leonard
Born 1843
George Ashworth
1912 - 1994
David A. Tapp
-