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Famous people · Granite City
34 famous people were born in Granite City, most of them between 1920 and 1969
At the top of the list is the American fiction writer Robert Olen Butler, covered in 18 languages. Andy Phillip and Steve Trittschuh follow. The first birth on record is Charlie Jackson’s, in 1894, and the last L. J. Fort’s, in 1990. For every 10,000 residents the town has 12.8, while at least half the towns in Illinois list nobody born there.
Born here
34
notable people
Best known
Robert Olen Butler
in 18 Wikipedia languages
First
1894
Charlie Jackson
Youngest
1990
L. J. Fort
Most common field
Sports
13 people
What stands out about Granite City’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Granite City’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1960s than in any other decade: 7.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsMilitaryScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageNotableMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Granite City
Robert Olen Butler has articles in 18 languages, Andy Phillip in 16 and Steve Trittschuh in 16.
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What Granite City is known for
Set against the usual town, soldiers and sailors come out 2.5 times as common.
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 Granite City
Of the other 31, 11 are athletes.
James D. Holloway
1931–2011Member of the Illinois General Assembly and executive at the Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association
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Famous people from the towns next door
Madison has the longest list next door: 11.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Granite 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 (16)
- Andy Phillip: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve Trittschuh: John Mena, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ralph Tyler Smith: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Goodpaster: US Army, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bradford Keeney: Phoenixred, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anna M. Valencia: Charles Edward Miller from Chicago, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carolyn S. Griner: uploaded by User:Dravecky, from NASA photo., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary W. Kronk: KennickMike at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- L. J. Fort: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ann Callis: Illinois Public Media, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dal Maxvill: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlie Jackson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Owen Friend: Bowman Gum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David C. Williams: United States Postal Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Donnie Freeman: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Clint Walker: Macfadden Publications, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons