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Famous people · Hesston

Hesston is the birthplace of 3 famous people

At the top of the list is the American football coach Katie Sowers, covered in 7 languages. The next two names are Lyle Yost and Mike King. Births span 1913 to 1986, from Lyle Yost to Katie Sowers. Half or more of the towns in Kansas have no one on record, but this one has 8.4 for every 10,000 residents.

#1 best knownKatie SowersSports · born 1986
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Katie Sowers
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1913
Lyle Yost
Youngest
1986
Katie Sowers
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known

Born in Hesston

The three are covered in 7, 2 and 2 languages: Katie Sowers, Lyle Yost and Mike King.

Katie Sowers#1
Sports

Katie Sowers

born 1986

American football coach

7 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
LY#2
Science & Medicine

Lyle Yost

1913–2012

American inventor

2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
MK#3
Business

Mike King

Businessman

2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Hesston 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.

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