#1Famous people · Grandview
4 famous people come from Grandview, Alec Burks the best known
Articles in 22 languages make the American basketball player Alec Burks the best known. Behind the leader come Larry Noble and Freedom Akinmoladun. Born in 1963, Jerry Partridge is the first name on record, and Freedom Akinmoladun, born in 1996, the most recent. The list comes to 1.5 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Missouri, at 1.2.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Alec Burks
in 22 Wikipedia languages
First
1963
Jerry Partridge
Youngest
1996
Freedom Akinmoladun
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Grandview
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Freedom Akinmoladun
born 1996American football defensive tackle
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Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 2.1 times.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Grandview 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)
- Alec Burks: GoIowaState.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Freedom Akinmoladun: David from Washington, DC, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ed Asner: Terry Ballard, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Hern: U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons