#1Famous people · Crystal
3 famous people call Crystal their birthplace
Articles in 8 languages make the American ice hockey player and coach Todd Richards the best known. Second and third on the list are Travis Richards and Jeff Schuh. Of the bordering towns, Golden Valley has the longest list: 14, with Kelly Lynch at the top. For every 10,000 residents the town has 1.3, while at least half the towns in Minnesota list nobody born there.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Todd Richards
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1958
Jeff Schuh
Youngest
1970
Travis Richards
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Crystal
The three best known are all athletes.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Crystal 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 (5)
- Todd Richards: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Travis Richards: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kelly Lynch: Michael Locke from Los Angeles, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Curt Hennig: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Johnson: Connor Mah, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons