#1Famous people · Hastings
15 famous people come from Hastings, Derek Stepan the best known
Articles in 19 languages make the American ice hockey player Derek Stepan the best known. The largest group, 7, was born in the age of mills and railroads. 5 of them were born since 1970. Derek Stepan, born in 1990, is the youngest, and Gratia Countryman, born in 1866, the first on record.
Born here
15
notable people
Best known
Derek Stepan
in 19 Wikipedia languages
First
1866
Gratia Countryman
Youngest
1990
Derek Stepan
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Hastings’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Hastings’s famous people were born
The 1870s saw the most births of any decade: 4.
SportsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawScience & MedicineWriting & ArtsNotableMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Hastings
The three are covered in 19, 17 and 14 languages: Derek Stepan, Mark Steven Johnson and Harry Oliver.
#1MJ#2
Film, TV & Stage
Mark Steven Johnson
born 1964American film director and writer
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#3Known for
What Hastings is known for
Hastings has 1.3× the usual share of athletes.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Hastings 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 (8)
- Derek Stepan: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Oliver: screen shots or promotional photo, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Taffe: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Fox: Roberta F., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gil Dobie: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gratia Countryman: Photographer: Lee Bros. (Firm : Minneapolis, Minn.), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur LeSueur: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Laurence C. Hodgson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons