#1Famous people · Bluefield
4 famous people call Bluefield their birthplace
At the top of the list is the American football player Ahmad Bradshaw, covered in 9 languages. Behind the leader come Bill Dudley and Ray Louthen. The earliest on the list is Bill Dudley, born in 1921, and the youngest Sean Spencer, born in 1987. Per head, the list is long: 8 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Virginia has 0.1.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Ahmad Bradshaw
in 9 Wikipedia languages
First
1921
Bill Dudley
Youngest
1987
Sean Spencer
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Bluefield
The three best known are all athletes.
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Sports
Ray Louthen
1925–2004American football and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator
2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Bluefield’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1980s than in any other decade: 2.
SportsWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Bluefield is known for
Bluefield has 2.1× the usual share of athletes.
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 Bluefield
1 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Bluefield 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)
- Ahmad Bradshaw: Coingeek, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Dudley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons