#1Famous people · Sugar Grove
4 famous people were born in Sugar Grove from 1874 to 2005
Articles in 7 languages make the US swimmer Leah Hayes the best known. P. J. Fleck and Harry Mewhirter follow. Half or more of the towns in Illinois have no one on record, but this one has 4.3 for every 10,000 residents. 2 of them are athletes, more than in any other field.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Leah Hayes
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1874
Harry Mewhirter
Youngest
2005
Leah Hayes
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Sugar Grove
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1#2#3Through the years
When Sugar Grove’s famous people were born
The 2000s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Sugar Grove 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.
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Everyone else born in Sugar Grove
1 more, best known first.
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Of the towns around it, Aurora has the most on record: 49.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Sugar Grove 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)
- Leah Hayes: FISU, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- P. J. Fleck: Whippdog, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Mewhirter: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Julie Montagu, Countess of Sandwich: Valder Beebe Show, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clive Cussler: Oleo, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons