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4 famous people call Sidney their birthplace
At the top of the list is the American writer Dan Chaon, covered in 5 languages. Behind the leader come Ken Ramos and Robert Brachtenbach. Over 77 years of births, the list goes from Potter P. Howard (1890) to Ken Ramos (1967). The list comes to 6.2 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Nebraska, at 8.5.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Dan Chaon
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1890
Potter P. Howard
Youngest
1967
Ken Ramos
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Sidney
Dan Chaon has articles in 5 languages, Ken Ramos in 3 and Robert Brachtenbach in 2.
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Through the years
When Sidney’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1960s, at 2.
Politics & LawWriting & ArtsSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Sidney is known for
2 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Sidney
1 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Sidney 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.