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Famous people · Alamo
4 famous people call Alamo their birthplace
JT Marcinkowski, the American soccer player, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. The American football player Ryan Whalen ranks second, ahead of Vili Helu. The biggest group are athletes: 4. For every 10,000 residents the town has 2.8, while at least half the towns in California list nobody born there.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
JT Marcinkowski
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1982
Marcie Ward
Youngest
1997
JT Marcinkowski
Most common field
Sports
4 people
Also called it home
2
notable residents
The best known
Born in Alamo
Ranked by languages covered: JT Marcinkowski with 8, then Ryan Whalen with 3 and Vili Helu with 3.
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Through the years
When Alamo’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1990s, at 2.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Alamo
1 more, best known first.
A chosen home
Also called Alamo home
Notable people Wikidata lists as living in Alamo, though born elsewhere.
Robert J. Lang
born 1961American physicist, mathematician and origami expert
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 2 have famous names listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Alamo 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 (3)
- Ryan Whalen: BrokenSphere, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert J. Lang: Dr. Robert Lang, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Wondolowski: BrokenSphere, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons