#1Famous people · Safford
8 famous people were born in Safford, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Articles in 7 languages make the American baseball player Elliot Johnson the best known. D. J. Carrasco is second and Douglas Layton third. Born in 1907, Rex Ellsworth is the first name on record, and Elliot Johnson, born in 1984, the most recent. Births since 1970 account for 2 of the names.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Elliot Johnson
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1907
Rex Ellsworth
Youngest
1984
Elliot Johnson
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Safford’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Safford’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1950s than in any other decade: 3.
SportsBusinessPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Safford
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1
#2DL#3
Business
Douglas Layton
born 1950American nonprofit executive and author
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Known for
What Safford is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
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Close by, Thatcher counts 3 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Safford 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)
- Elliot Johnson: Keith Allison on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- D. J. Carrasco: slgckgc on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank R. Zapata: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gene Taylor: Kansas State Wildcats: K-StateOnline, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons