#1Famous people · Calumet City
Calumet City is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Articles in 6 languages make the American rapper and singer Tink the best known. The next two names are Mike Tomczak and Frank Grigonis. Half or more of the towns in Illinois have no one on record, but this one has 1.1 for every 10,000 residents. The earliest on the list is Frank Grigonis, born in 1916, and the youngest Tink, born in 1995.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Tink
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1916
Frank Grigonis
Youngest
1995
Tink
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Calumet City
Two of the three are athletes.
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Through the years
When Calumet City’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
SportsMusicFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Calumet City is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Calumet City
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 5 have famous names listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Calumet City 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)
- Tink: Tse Daniel for The Come Up Show, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Terry Funk: Mike Kalasnik, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek Needham: Zafer, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Mulder: Shgmom56, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Smith: U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Danet, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons