#1Famous people · Star City
Star City is the birthplace of 3 famous people
Articles in 3 languages make the American football player Cedric Thornton the best known. Leon Donohue is second and Walter Broadnax third. The earliest on the list is Leon Donohue, born in 1939, and the youngest Cedric Thornton, born in 1988. The longest list of any town in Arkansas belongs to Fort Smith, with 69.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Cedric Thornton
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1939
Leon Donohue
Youngest
1988
Cedric Thornton
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Star City
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1LD#2
WB#3
Science & Medicine
Walter Broadnax
1944–2022American academic administrator
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What Star City is known for
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Star City 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)
- Cedric Thornton: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons