#1Famous people · Columbia City
8 famous people come from Columbia City, Jim Banks the best known
Articles in 20 languages make the American politician Jim Banks the best known. Ralph F. Gates is second and Keller E. Rockey third. 3 of them were born since 1970. Over 141 years of births, the list goes from Leigh S. J. Hunt (1855) to Hannah Schaefer (1996).
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Jim Banks
in 20 Wikipedia languages
First
1855
Leigh S. J. Hunt
Youngest
1996
Hannah Schaefer
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
What stands out about Columbia City’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Columbia City’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1970s, at 1.
Politics & LawMilitaryWriting & ArtsBusinessMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Columbia City
Two of the three are leaders.
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What Columbia City is known for
2 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
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Everyone else born in Columbia City
Of the other 5, 2 are writers and artists.
No one matches both filters.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Columbia 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 (6)
- Jim Banks: United States Senate, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ralph F. Gates: Office of the Governor of Indiana, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Keller E. Rockey: United States Marine Corps Official Portrait, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave Herman: MartialArtsNomad.com, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Leigh S. J. Hunt: Special Collections & University Archives (ISU), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Merritte W. Ireland: War Department. Army War College. Historical Section. World War I Branch. ca. 1918-ca. 1948, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons