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Film, TV & Stage
Diablo Cody
born 1978American screenwriter and author
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Famous people · Lemont
8 famous people from Lemont, many of them athletes
Diablo Cody, the American screenwriter and author, is the most widely known, written about in 35 languages. Close behind are Christian Vande Velde and Coby Fleener. Since 1970, 7 were born, the most of any period. Fewer than a quarter of the 753 towns in Illinois with famous people list more.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Diablo Cody
in 35 Wikipedia languages
First
1871
Ralph Delahaye Paine
Youngest
1995
Ethan Pocic
Most common field
Sports
6 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about Lemont’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Lemont’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1990s come out on top, with 4 births.
SportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Lemont is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 2.1 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Lemont
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Everyone else born in Lemont
The rest number 5, with 4 athletes among them.
Ralph Delahaye Paine
1871–1925American journalist and author, later politician
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A chosen home
Also called Lemont home
Notable people Wikidata lists as living in Lemont, though born elsewhere.
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The longest list nearby is Romeoville’s, with 4.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Lemont 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 (10)
- Christian Vande Velde: derivative work: Pirker Christian_Vande_Velde.jpg: MoBikeFed, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Coby Fleener: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ethan Pocic: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ralph Delahaye Paine: Yale?, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Putna: Hayden Schiff from Cincinnati, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyler Jay: Bryan Green, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clayton Fejedelem: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christine Radogno: SVera1NY, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Anthony: Sayuncle, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Solak: Jeffrey Hyde, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons