#1Famous people · Vadnais Heights
4 famous people come from Vadnais Heights, Hannah Brandt the best known
Articles in 12 languages make the American ice hockey player Hannah Brandt the best known. Behind the leader come Justin Braun and Justin Bostrom. The earliest on the list is John Swallen, born in 1965, and the youngest Hannah Brandt, born in 1993. Half or more of the towns in Minnesota have no one on record, but this one has 3.1 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Hannah Brandt
in 12 Wikipedia languages
First
1965
John Swallen
Youngest
1993
Hannah Brandt
Most common field
Sports
4 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
The best known
Born in Vadnais Heights
Counted by languages, Hannah Brandt is ahead of Justin Braun and Justin Bostrom: 12, 11 and 6.
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Through the years
When Vadnais Heights’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1980s come out on top, with 2 births.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Vadnais Heights
1 more, best known first.
A chosen home
Also called Vadnais Heights home
One more notable person made the town home: Heather Gustafson.
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Around it, White Bear Lake has the most people on record, 14 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Vadnais Heights 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 (6)
- Hannah Brandt: John Mac, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Heather Gustafson: Office of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Moose Goheen: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Turner: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Alt: Munnaf Joarder, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maggie Nichols: Alessandro Gamberi, CC BY-SA 3.0 it, Wikimedia Commons