#1Famous people · Savanna
7 famous people were born in Savanna
Most widely known is Wayne King, the American musician, with articles in 6 languages. The next two names are Billy Zoom and Gerald L. Geison. The largest group, 3, was born in the age of mills and railroads. Fewer than a quarter of the 766 towns in Illinois with famous people list more.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Wayne King
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1859
Mary Geigus Coulter
Youngest
1948
Billy Zoom
Most common field
Music
2 people
The best known
Born in Savanna
Musicians take two of the three places.
#1BZ#2
GG#3
Through the years
When Savanna’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1940s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
MusicPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsSportsMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Savanna is known for
Musicians are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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 Savanna
Another 4, the earliest born in 1859.
No one matches both filters.
The town’s pick
Town Square →Who’s the most famous person from Savanna?
Pick one and say why. Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Your pick
No picks yet
Be the first to say who Savanna’s most famous person is.
Or tell us
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Savanna 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)
- Wayne King: The Gillimas Service, New York (probably a publicity outlet for Lucky Strike, the radio show's sponsor), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony McCombie: VOA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pete Lister: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Geigus Coulter: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Palmer E. Pierce: Harper&Brothers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons