You are talking more the metropolitan Bemidji area there than metropolitan Hibbing.  Bemidji’s most famous person is Paul Bunyan.  As a kid we used to drive past the huge Paul Bunyan and Babe statues on our trips to visit my grand parents on the farm in Thief River Falls.  The statues have either shrunk or they looked a little bigger to a 6 year old than a 60 year old.  Good memories😊