#1Famous people · Taylor
Taylor counts 4 famous people, first among them Ninja
At the top of the list is the American livestreamer and vlogger Ninja, covered in 33 languages. Second place goes to the American heavy metal singer Mike Howe, third to Melody Kay. For every 10,000 residents the town has 0.6, while at least half the towns in Michigan list nobody born there. Performers make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Ninja
in 33 Wikipedia languages
First
1965
Mike Howe
Youngest
1991
Ninja
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
The best known
Born in Taylor
Counted by languages, Ninja is ahead of Mike Howe and Melody Kay: 33, 9 and 8.
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Through the years
When Taylor’s famous people were born
The 1960s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Film, TV & StageMusicSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Taylor is known for
Performers are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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 Taylor
1 more, best known first.
A chosen home
Also called Taylor home
Born elsewhere, Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite lived here.
Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite
1927–2020Last woman of the Monuments Men and Women to pass away
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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 Taylor 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 (4)
- Ninja: State Farm, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Oesterle: Connormah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Long: Dave hogg, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons