#1Famous people · Rancho Palos Verdes
Rancho Palos Verdes counts 4 famous people, first among them Robbie Rogers
Articles in 29 languages make the American soccer player Robbie Rogers the best known. The next two names are JonTron and Shawn Weinstein. Over 5 years of births, the list goes from Shawn Weinstein (1985) to JonTron (1990). Half or more of the towns in California have no one on record, but this one has 1 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Robbie Rogers
in 29 Wikipedia languages
First
1985
Shawn Weinstein
Youngest
1990
JonTron
Most common field
Sports
3 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
The best known
Born in Rancho Palos Verdes
Robbie Rogers, JonTron and Shawn Weinstein are written about in 29, 6 and 2 languages.
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Known for
What Rancho Palos Verdes is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 2.1 times.
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 Rancho Palos Verdes
1 more, best known first.
A chosen home
Also called Rancho Palos Verdes home
Born elsewhere, Lauren Iungerich lived here.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Los Angeles counts 21 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Rancho Palos Verdes 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 (3)
- Robbie Rogers: Longbomb, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marilyn Monroe: Sam Shaw, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ted Lilly: bridgetds on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons