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Photo: Dr. Blazer · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · West Columbia
3 famous people call West Columbia their birthplace
Articles in 4 languages make the American football player Dakota Dozier the best known. The next two names are Jake Knotts and Troy Lesesne. The list comes to 1.7 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in South Carolina, at 1.5. Dakota Dozier, born in 1991, is the youngest, and Jake Knotts, born in 1944, the first on record.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Dakota Dozier
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1944
Jake Knotts
Youngest
1991
Dakota Dozier
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in West Columbia
Two of the three are athletes.
JK#2
TL#3
Known for
What West Columbia is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 2.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is West Columbia 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)
- Stanley Donen: Adam Schartoff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wrenn Schmidt: Behind The Velvet Rope TV, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons