#1Famous people · Vermilion
4 famous people call Vermilion their birthplace
Articles in 7 languages make the American sports journalist Allie LaForce the best known. Albert David Baumhart, Jr. and Andrew Oliver follow. Half or more of the towns in Ohio have no one on record, but this one has 3.9 for every 10,000 residents. The oldest name on the list belongs to Albert David Baumhart, Jr., born in 1908, the newest to Allie LaForce, born in 1988.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Allie LaForce
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1908
Albert David Baumhart, Jr.
Youngest
1988
Allie LaForce
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Vermilion
Two of the three are athletes.
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#2Politics & Law
Albert David Baumhart, Jr.
1908–2001American politician
5 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
AO#3
Through the years
When Vermilion’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2 births.
SportsPolitics & LawNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Vermilion is known for
2 of them work in Sports, 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 Vermilion
1 more, best known first.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Lorain’s, with 50.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Vermilion 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 (3)
- Allie LaForce: Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Albert David Baumhart, Jr.: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Toni Morrison: John Mathew Smith (celebrity-photos.com), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons