#1Science & Medicine
Francis Rogallo
1912–2009Inventor of the Rogallo wing
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Famous people · Sanger
10 famous people were born in Sanger, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Francis Rogallo, the inventor of the Rogallo wing, is the most widely known, written about in 10 languages. The American football player and coach Tom Flores ranks second, ahead of Kristi Terzian. Half or more of the towns in California have no one on record, but this one has 3.7 for every 10,000 residents. Born in 1911, Ted C. Wills is the first name on record, and Luis Ortiz, born in 1995, the most recent.
Born here
10
notable people
Best known
Francis Rogallo
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1911
Ted C. Wills
Youngest
1995
Luis Ortiz
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Sanger’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Sanger’s famous people were born
The 1910s top the chart, with 3 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineMusicWriting & ArtsBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Sanger
Athletes take two of the three places.
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What Sanger is known for
Share of Sanger’s famous people in each field.
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7 more, 2 of them leaders.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Sanger 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)
- Francis Rogallo: NASA Langley Research Center / NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Flores: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Luis Ortiz: EricEnfermero, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Manuel Neri: Sally Larsen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons