#1Famous people · Avon Park
9 famous people from Avon Park, many of them athletes
At the top of the list is the American basketball player Bernice Mosby, covered in 10 languages. The next two names are Hal McRae and Deanie Parish. For every 10,000 residents the town has 8.9, while at least half the towns in Florida list nobody born there. 4 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
9
notable people
Best known
Bernice Mosby
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1915
Howard E. Skipper
Youngest
1995
Nick Gordon
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Avon Park’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Avon Park’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2 births.
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Known for
What Avon Park is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.6 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Avon Park
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Everyone else born in Avon Park
6 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Avon Park 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 (5)
- Bernice Mosby: Sakhalinio, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hal McRae: Minda Haas Kuhlmann: flickr, personal website, twitter, instagram, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Deanie Parish: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Gordon: Bryan Green, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Howard E. Skipper: Howard_Skipper,_from_Southern_Research_Institute_in_Birmingham,_Alabama.jpg: National Cancer Institute (NCI) derivative work: Jan Arkesteijn, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons