#1Darby Stanchfield tops a list of 7 famous people born in Kodiak
Articles in 26 languages make the American actress Darby Stanchfield the best known. Behind the leader come Jason Everman and Scott R. Fisher. More than half were born between 1920 and 1969, 4 in all. Half or more of the towns in Alaska have no one on record, but this one has 12.9 for every 10,000 residents.
What stands out about Kodiak’s famous people
When Kodiak’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1970s, with 2 people born in that decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Born in Kodiak
Darby Stanchfield has articles in 26 languages, Jason Everman in 24 and Scott R. Fisher in 7.
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#2What Kodiak is known for
Share of Kodiak’s famous people in each field.
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Everyone else born in Kodiak
Here are 4 more, born from 1929 to 1981.

R. Stanley Williams
born 1951Physicist and engineer from United States of America

Kai Hibbard
born 1978American activist, social worker, writer, and former reality TV participant
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Also called Kodiak home
One more notable person made the town home: Gary Stevens.

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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Kodiak 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 (5)
- Darby Stanchfield: Yahoo from Sunnyvale, California, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Everman: Member of the United States Army, serving with Everman in Afghanistan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- R. Stanley Williams: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Terry: Mike Dunn from Sunnyvale, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Stevens: AKSenMajority, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons