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Famous people · Buckeye
6 famous people call Buckeye their birthplace
The best known is the American football player Bill Lueck, with articles in 3 languages. The next two names are Byron Birdsall and Sue Hardesty. For every 10,000 residents the town has 0.6, while at least half the towns in Arizona list nobody born there. 3 of them are athletes, more than in any other field.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Bill Lueck
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1933
Sue Hardesty
Youngest
1946
Bill Lueck
Most common field
Sports
3 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
The best known
Born in Buckeye
Writers and artists take two of the three places.
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#3Through the years
When Buckeye’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1940s than in any other decade: 2.
SportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Buckeye is known for
Buckeye has 1.4× the usual share of athletes.
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 Buckeye
Of the other 3, 2 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
A chosen home
Also called Buckeye home
Notable people Wikidata lists as living in Buckeye, though born elsewhere.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Buckeye 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)
- Sue Hardesty: Dmthompson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Lofton: Ahanson1995, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joel John: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sine Kerr: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons