#1Music
Billy Lee Riley
1933–2009American rockabilly musician, singer, record producer and songwriter
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Famous people · Pocahontas
8 famous people were born in Pocahontas, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Billy Lee Riley leads the list, covered in 14 languages. Second and third on the list are Jim Johnston and Ed Bethune. Over 104 years of births, the list goes from William Herbert Allaire, Jr. (1858) to Linda Collins-Smith (1962). 3 of them are leaders, more than in any other field.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Billy Lee Riley
in 14 Wikipedia languages
First
1858
William Herbert Allaire, Jr.
Youngest
1962
Linda Collins-Smith
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
What stands out about Pocahontas’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Pocahontas’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1930s, at 2.
Politics & LawMusicMilitarySports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Pocahontas
Two of the three are musicians.
#1JJ#2
Music
Jim Johnston
born 1959American music composer and musician best known for his WWE entrance themes
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#3Politics & Law
Ed Bethune
born 1935Arkansas politician, lawyer, lobbyist and United States Marine
7 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What Pocahontas is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 1.8 times as common.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Pocahontas 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)
- Billy Lee Riley: joespake, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ed Bethune: US Government Printing Office, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Larry P. Arnn: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Herbert Allaire, Jr.: U.S. Army, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons