#1Famous people · McGehee
9 famous people were born in McGehee, more of them athletes than in most towns
Articles in 16 languages make the American basketball player Caldwell Jones the best known. Second place goes to the American writer Nancy A. Collins, third to Wil Jones. Most were born between 1920 and 1969: 8 of them. Seth J. McKee (1916) and Oliver Keith Baker (1959) mark the two ends of the list.
Born here
9
notable people
Best known
Caldwell Jones
in 16 Wikipedia languages
First
1916
Seth J. McKee
Youngest
1959
Oliver Keith Baker
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about McGehee’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When McGehee’s famous people were born
The 1950s saw the most births of any decade: 6.
SportsWriting & ArtsMilitaryNotableScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What McGehee is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.6 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in McGehee
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in McGehee
Of the other 6, 3 are athletes.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is McGehee 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 (5)
- Caldwell Jones: Philadelphia 76ers / NBA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nancy A. Collins: Infrogmation, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Jones: Gene Sweeney Jr., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Seth J. McKee: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ben F. Gross: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons