#1Famous people · Nitro
4 famous people come from Nitro, Kayla Williams the best known
Kayla Williams, the American gymnast, is the most widely known, written about in 10 languages. Second and third on the list are Lew Burdette and Bill Winter. The list comes to 5.8 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in West Virginia, at 7. The earliest on the list is Lew Burdette, born in 1926, and the youngest Kayla Williams, born in 1993.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Kayla Williams
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1926
Lew Burdette
Youngest
1993
Kayla Williams
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Nitro
Athletes take two of the three places.
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#2Sports
Lew Burdette
1926–2007American professional baseball player, pitcher, coach
8 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
BW#3
Through the years
When Nitro’s famous people were born
The 1940s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
SportsWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Nitro is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 2.1 times.
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 Nitro
1 more, best known first.
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Around it, only Cross Lanes has someone listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Nitro 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 (4)
- Kayla Williams: User:TwoWings, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lew Burdette: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Larry Barnett: User Rdikeman on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Blackburn B. Dovener: James B. Lyon, Publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons