#1Famous people · West
West is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Articles in 8 languages make the American baseball player Scott Podsednik the best known. Close behind are Buster Chatham and Cliff Bartosh. Buster Chatham, born in 1901, is the earliest name and Cliff Bartosh, born in 1979, the latest. More are athletes than anything else, 4 in all.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Scott Podsednik
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1901
Buster Chatham
Youngest
1979
Cliff Bartosh
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in West
The three best known are all athletes.
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Through the years
When West’s famous people were born
The 1970s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in West
1 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is West 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)
- Scott Podsednik: Keith Allison on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ray Kubala: Coffeyshop, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons