#1Famous people · Fostoria
Of the 16 famous people born in Fostoria, an unusual share are athletes
Articles in 8 languages make the American baseball player Grant Jackson the best known. The largest group, 10, was born between 1920 and 1969. The first birth on record is John N. W. Rumple’s, in 1841, and the last Micah Hyde’s, in 1990. For every 10,000 residents the town has 13, while at least half the towns in Ohio list nobody born there.
Born here
16
notable people
Best known
Grant Jackson
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1841
John N. W. Rumple
Youngest
1990
Micah Hyde
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about Fostoria’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Fostoria is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.6 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.
The best known
Born in Fostoria
The three are covered in 8, 7 and 5 languages: Grant Jackson, Micah Hyde and Edward R. Hays.
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Through the years
When Fostoria’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1940s, at 4.
SportsPolitics & LawMilitaryScience & MedicineMusicBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Fostoria
13 more, from 1841 to 1983.
Norman Gibat
1929–2012American technical engineer, author and puzzle designer
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Arlene Anderson Skutch
1924–2012American singer, actress, and artist (b. 1924, d. 2012)
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Fostoria 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)
- Grant Jackson: Baltimore Orioles, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Micah Hyde: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John N. W. Rumple: US Government Printing Office (Washington, DC), publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gene Derricotte: Unidentified (Michiganensian is the University of Michigan yearbook published by University of Michigan), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arlene Anderson Skutch: Kundrup, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons