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Famous people · Hesperia
Hesperia is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Articles in 6 languages make the American racing driver Joel Miller the best known. Second place goes to the American singer Joel Deleōn, third to Juan Archuleta. The earliest on the list is Thurston Smith, born in 1958, and the youngest Joel Deleōn, born in 1999. For every 10,000 residents the town has 0.4, while at least half the towns in California list nobody born there.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Joel Miller
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1958
Thurston Smith
Youngest
1999
Joel Deleōn
Most common field
Sports
1 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
The best known
Born in Hesperia
By how many languages cover them, Joel Miller comes first (6), then Joel Deleōn (5) and Juan Archuleta (5).
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Through the years
When Hesperia’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1980s come out on top, with 2 births.
SportsMusicWriting & ArtsBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Hesperia is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 1 of them.
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 Hesperia
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
A chosen home
Also called Hesperia home
One more notable person made the town home: Joe Stevenson.
The town’s pick
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Victorville has the most on record, with 13.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Hesperia 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)
- Joel Deleōn: Bonnielou2013, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thurston Smith: State of California, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Stevenson: Mark Richardson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patty Jenkins: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Long: Jamie Smed, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons