#1Famous people · Yukon
4 famous people call Yukon their birthplace
Most widely known is Elmer E. Kirkpatrick, the American engineer, with articles in 3 languages. Joe Albertson is second and Rhonda Baker third. For its size the list is short: 1.6 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.2 in the typical Oklahoma town. The earliest on the list is Elmer E. Kirkpatrick, born in 1905, and the youngest Brad Dalke, born in 1997.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Elmer E. Kirkpatrick
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1905
Elmer E. Kirkpatrick
Youngest
1997
Brad Dalke
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 people
The best known
Born in Yukon
Three names lead: Elmer E. Kirkpatrick (3 languages), Joe Albertson (3) and Rhonda Baker (3).
#1JA#2
#3Through the years
When Yukon’s famous people were born
The 1900s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
Science & MedicineBusinessPolitics & LawSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Yukon is known for
1 of them work in Science & Medicine, 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 Yukon
1 more, best known first.
The town’s pick
Town Square →Who’s the most famous person from Yukon?
Pick one and say why. Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Your pick
No picks yet
Be the first to say who Yukon’s most famous person is.
Or tell us
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Oklahoma City has the longest list next door: 45.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Yukon 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)
- Elmer E. Kirkpatrick: US Army, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rhonda Baker: Oklahoma Legislative Service Bureau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Warren: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons