#1Famous people · DeLand
18 famous people from DeLand, many of them athletes
Articles in 18 languages make the American baseball player Jacob deGrom the best known. Second place goes to the American Hall of Fame baseball player Chipper Jones, third to Bridgette Gordon. 8 were born in 1970 or later. Half or more of the towns in Florida have no one on record, but this one has 4.3 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
18
notable people
Best known
Jacob deGrom
in 18 Wikipedia languages
First
1899
Horace Allen
Youngest
1997
Jason Burnell
Most common field
Sports
12 people
What stands out about DeLand’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When DeLand’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1980s come out on top, with 4 births.
SportsPolitics & LawMusicWriting & ArtsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What DeLand is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.9 times the usual share.
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 DeLand
The three best known are all athletes.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in DeLand
The rest number 15, with 9 athletes among them.
Noble "Thin Man" Watts
1926–2004American blues, jump blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Deltona lists the most people: 3.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is DeLand 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 (7)
- Jacob deGrom: All-Pro Reels from District of Columbia, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chipper Jones: Djh57, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Fetterhoff: Florida House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Burnell: Basketinside il basket a 360°, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Luke Weaver: Daniel Hartwig on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tra Thomas: Luis Antonio Rodríguez Ochoa from Redmond, Washington. Cropped by User:Blueag9., CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Isiah C. Smith: Kmccook, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons