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Famous people · Coggon

Coggon has yet to put a famous person on the list

455 towns across Iowa can name a famous person born there. The longest list of any town in Iowa belongs to Waterloo, with 61. Iowa City has the second-longest list in Iowa, after Waterloo, with 54.

Who’s listed here

Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Coggon), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Coggon has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.

Back to Coggon

From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Coggon 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.