#1Famous people · Hoxie
Hoxie is the birthplace of 5 famous people
The best known is the American football player and coach Brad Lambert, with articles in 3 languages. Dirk Johnson, the player of American football, comes second, with Les Barnhart third. In the age of mills and railroads, 3 were born, the most of any period. More are athletes than anything else, 4 in all.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Brad Lambert
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1899
Urbane Pickering
Youngest
1975
Dirk Johnson
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Hoxie’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Hoxie’s famous people were born
The 1960s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Hoxie
All three are athletes.
#1
#2LB#3
Known for
What Hoxie is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 2.3 times the usual share.
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 Hoxie
Still to come: 2 more, from 1899 to 1911.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Hoxie 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 (3)
- Brad Lambert: Stanton49, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dirk Johnson: Jeff_Garcia_warms_up_to_pass.jpg: Darrin derivative work: Lpdrew, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gordon Sloan: Oregon Secretary of State, distributed to voters without a copyright notice, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons