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Famous people · Hoffman Estates
7 famous people from Hoffman Estates, many of them athletes
At the top of the list is the American water polo player Melissa Seidemann, covered in 16 languages. More than half were born since 1970, 7 in all. The oldest name on the list belongs to Rob Valentino, born in 1985, the newest to Justin Wrobleski, born in 2000. Half or more of the towns in Illinois have no one on record, but this one has 1.4 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Melissa Seidemann
in 16 Wikipedia languages
First
1985
Rob Valentino
Youngest
2000
Justin Wrobleski
Most common field
Sports
7 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about Hoffman Estates’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Hoffman Estates’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 5.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Hoffman Estates
All three are athletes.
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Everyone else born in Hoffman Estates
4 more, from 1985 to 2000.
No one matches both filters.
A chosen home
Also called Hoffman Estates home
One more notable person made the town home: Tammy Duckworth.
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Famous people from the towns next door
4 towns around it have someone on record.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Hoffman Estates 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 (6)
- Josh Kline: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andre Holmes: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Justin Wrobleski: Reunion, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Valentino: Fsufiji, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tammy Duckworth: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio; Renee Bouchard, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Susan Downey: Toiram, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons