#1Famous people · Sisseton
4 famous people call Sisseton their birthplace
Joe Robbie, the NFL Team owner, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. The American politician in South dakota Gary D. Hanson ranks second, ahead of Tamara St. John. Born in 1916, Joe Robbie is the first name on record, and Tamara St. John, born in 1966, the most recent. Only 28 of the 132 towns in South Dakota with anyone on record list more.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Joe Robbie
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1916
Joe Robbie
Youngest
1966
Tamara St. John
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
The best known
Born in Sisseton
The three best known are all leaders.
#1GH#2
Politics & Law
Gary D. Hanson
born 1949American politician in South Dakota
2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
#3Politics & Law
Tamara St. John
born 1966Sisseton Dakota-American politician
2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Sisseton’s famous people were born
3 were born between 1920 and 1969, and the 1910s alone saw 1.
Politics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Sisseton
1 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Sisseton 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)
- Joe Robbie: Roy Erickson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tamara St. John: SoDakNative, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons