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5 famous people call Koloa their birthplace

Articles in 8 languages make the hawaiian royalty and Hawaiian politician Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole the best known. William Owen Smith, the hawaiian politician, comes second, with Yukio Okutsu third. For every 10,000 residents the town has 17.2, while at least half the towns in Hawaii list nobody born there. The oldest name on the list belongs to William Owen Smith, born in 1848, the newest to Raymond Kāne, born in 1925.

#1 best knownJonah Kūhiō KalanianaʻolePolitics & Law · 1871–1922
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5
notable people
Best known
Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1848
William Owen Smith
Youngest
1925
Raymond Kāne
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known

Born in Koloa

Leaders take two of the three places.

Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole#1
Politics & Law

Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole

1871–1922

Hawaiian royalty and Hawaiian politician

8 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
William Owen Smith#2
Politics & Law

William Owen Smith

1848–1929

Hawaiian politician

4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Yukio Okutsu#3
Military

Yukio Okutsu

1921–2003

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years

When Koloa’s famous people were born

More were born in the 1920s than in any other decade: 2.

A new nationMills & railroadsThe American century185019001950Yukio OkutsuWilliam Owen SmithJonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole
Politics & LawMilitaryMusicNotable

Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.

Known for

What Koloa is known for

Leaders are the most numerous, 2 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 Koloa

2 more names, born between 1908 and 1925.

LK

Lincoln Kanai

1908–1982

Japanese American social worker

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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Koloa 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.

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