#1Famous people · Blue Springs
Blue Springs is the birthplace of 5 famous people
Articles in 6 languages make the American baseball player Jacob Misiorowski the best known. Second place goes to the American politician Bryan Pratt, third to Kendall Blanton. The list comes to 0.8 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Missouri, at 1.2. More are athletes than anything else, 3 in all.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Jacob Misiorowski
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1972
Bryan Pratt
Youngest
2002
Jacob Misiorowski
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Blue Springs
Jacob Misiorowski, Bryan Pratt and Kendall Blanton are written about in 6, 3 and 3 languages.
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#3Through the years
When Blue Springs’s famous people were born
Most were born since 1970 (4); the busiest decade is the 2000s (1).
SportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Blue Springs is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.7 times the usual share.
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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Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Independence has the most on record, with 51.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Blue Springs 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 (3)
- Jacob Misiorowski: Drovetochicago, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kendall Blanton: Sports Spectrum, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ginger Rogers: Studio publicity still, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons