#1Famous people · Aurora
The 4 famous people born in Aurora, led by Anne Heche
At the top of the list is the American actress Anne Heche, covered in 55 languages. The American film director Jeff Burr ranks second, ahead of AJ Barner. Half or more of the towns in Ohio have no one on record, but this one has 2.3 for every 10,000 residents. The earliest on the list is Jeff Burr, born in 1963, and the youngest AJ Barner, born in 2002.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Anne Heche
in 55 Wikipedia languages
First
1963
Jeff Burr
Youngest
2002
AJ Barner
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
What stands out about Aurora’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Aurora
Performers take two of the three places.
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#3Through the years
When Aurora’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1960s, with 2 people born in that decade.
Film, TV & StageSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Aurora is known for
2 of them work in Film, TV & Stage, 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 Aurora
1 more, best known first.
The town’s pick
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Bainbridge lists the most people: 3.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Aurora 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 (5)
- Anne Heche: Mingle Media TV, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- AJ Barner: Maize & Blue Nation, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Norman: Talladega87, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- F. A. Wing: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lorenzo Snow: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons