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Film, TV & Stage
Geraldine Doyle
1924–2010World War II inspirational figure
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Famous people · Inkster
16 famous people were born in Inkster, most of them since 1970
At the top of the list is the world War II inspirational figure Geraldine Doyle, covered in 12 languages. Born in 1861, Josiah Dallas Dort is the first name on record, and Anavia Battle, born in 1999, the most recent. For every 10,000 residents the town has 6.3, while at least half the towns in Michigan list nobody born there. Fewer than a quarter of the 502 towns in Michigan with famous people list more.
Born here
16
notable people
Best known
Geraldine Doyle
in 12 Wikipedia languages
First
1861
Josiah Dallas Dort
Youngest
1999
Anavia Battle
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Inkster’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Inkster’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1990s, at 4.
SportsMusicPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageNotableWriting & ArtsBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Inkster
Ranked by languages covered: Geraldine Doyle with 12, then Anavia Battle with 10 and Georgeanna Tillman with 7.
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What Inkster is known for
Set against the usual town, musicians come out 3.4 times as common.
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 Inkster
13 more, 7 of them athletes.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Dearborn Heights has the most on record: 7.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Inkster 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 (9)
- Anavia Battle: Ssu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Georgeanna Tillman: Motown/Tamla Records-photographer-James Kriegsmann, New York, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wanda Young: Motown/Tamla Records-photographer-James Kriegsmann, New York, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Wiggins: AnjaGsottschneider, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jewell Jones: wblsfm1075, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Freddie Bishop III: Cmm3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Josiah Dallas Dort: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Oesterle: Connormah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gregory Jbara: Photo by Bill Kiefer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons