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Famous people · Cortez
6 famous people were born in Cortez
Articles in 10 languages make the American basketball player Chuck Nevitt the best known. More than half were born between 1920 and 1969, 4 in all. The list is still growing: 2 were born since 1970. The first birth on record is Ira C. Owens’, in 1936, and the last Eli Tomac’s, in 1992.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Chuck Nevitt
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1936
Ira C. Owens
Youngest
1992
Eli Tomac
Most common field
Sports
2 people
What stands out about Cortez’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Cortez’s famous people were born
The 1950s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawMilitaryScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Cortez
Two of the three are athletes.
#2
#3Known for
What Cortez is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Cortez
3 more, from 1941 to 1983.
Janelle Knox-Hayes
born 1983American academic studying economic geography
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Cortez 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)
- Eli Tomac: SchmisterTyler, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ira C. Owens: U.S. Army, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Janelle Knox-Hayes: Jarrodhayes, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons