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Photo: Highvolt · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Broadview Heights
Broadview Heights is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Articles in 4 languages make the American soccer player Jeremy Deighton the best known. Ron Biondo, the American short track speed skater, comes second, with Kenny Martin third. The first birth on record is Kenny Martin’s, in 1960, and the last Nick Zakelj’s, in 1999. More are athletes than anything else, 4 in all.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Jeremy Deighton
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1960
Kenny Martin
Youngest
1999
Nick Zakelj
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Broadview Heights
The three best known are all athletes.
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Through the years
When Broadview Heights’s famous people were born
The 1980s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Broadview Heights
1 more, best known first.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Brecksville leads the towns around it, with 4 names.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Broadview 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 (2)
- Christen Westphal: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Nanchoff: Wwongbc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons