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Famous people · Maple Valley

Maple Valley is the birthplace of 4 famous people

Most widely known is Nikolas Besagno, the American soccer player, with articles in 3 languages. Behind the leader come Taylor Matheny and Paul Graves. For every 10,000 residents the town has 1.4, while at least half the towns in Washington list nobody born there. Over 17 years of births, the list goes from Taylor Matheny (1979) to Zan Fiskum (1996).

Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Nikolas Besagno
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1979
Taylor Matheny
Youngest
1996
Zan Fiskum
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known

Born in Maple Valley

Two of the three are athletes.

NB#1
Sports

Nikolas Besagno

born 1988

American soccer player

3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
TM#2
Sports

Taylor Matheny

born 1979

American professional wrestler

3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
PG#3
Politics & Law

Paul Graves

American lawyer and politician

1 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for

What Maple Valley is known for

Athletes are the most numerous, 2 of them.

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 Maple Valley

1 more, best known first.

ZF

Zan Fiskum

born 1996

American folk-pop singer-songwriter

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Famous people from the towns next door

Kent has the longest list next door: 22.

From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Maple Valley 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.

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