#1Famous people · Forest Park
Forest Park is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Bill Idelson, the American actor, is the most widely known, written about in 3 languages. Second and third on the list are Calvin Sutker and Erv Lange. The biggest group are athletes: 2. Half or more of the towns in Illinois have no one on record, but this one has 2.9 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Bill Idelson
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1887
Erv Lange
Youngest
1927
Peggy Fenton
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Forest Park
Languages with an article: 3 for Bill Idelson, 2 for Calvin Sutker, 2 for Erv Lange.
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Through the years
When Forest Park’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1920s, at 2.
SportsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Forest Park is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 2 people.
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 Forest Park
1 more, best known first.
The town’s pick
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Maywood has the most on record: 35.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Forest Park 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)
- Bill Idelson: Macfadden Publications, Inc., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Burley Griffin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sidney Hatch: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons