MH#1
Famous people · Grangeville
5 famous people call Grangeville their birthplace
At the top of the list is the American football player Matt Hill, covered in 4 languages. Second place goes to the American professor of linguistics Warren Cowgill, third to Ken Schrom. Most were born between 1920 and 1969: 4 of them. Only 21 of the 93 towns in Idaho with anyone on record list more.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Matt Hill
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1929
Warren Cowgill
Youngest
1978
Matt Hill
Most common field
Sports
2 people
What stands out about Grangeville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Grangeville’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Grangeville
Matt Hill has articles in 4 languages, Warren Cowgill in 4 and Ken Schrom in 2.
WC#2
Science & Medicine
Warren Cowgill
1929–1985American professor of linguistics
4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
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What Grangeville is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
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Everyone else born in Grangeville
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Grangeville 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 (1)
- Ken Schrom: Minnesota Twins, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons