#1Famous people · Cairo
16 famous people were born in Cairo, more of them athletes than in most towns
The best known is the American baseball player Jackie Robinson, with articles in 55 languages. Second place goes to the American basketball player Teresa Edwards, third to Mack Robinson. 7 of them were born between 1920 and 1969, more than in any other period. Per head, the list is long: 15.9 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Georgia has 4.3.
Born here
16
notable people
Best known
Jackie Robinson
in 55 Wikipedia languages
First
1909
Joe Knight
Youngest
1991
J. J. Wilcox
Most common field
Sports
11 people
What stands out about Cairo’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Cairo
The three best known are all athletes.
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Known for
What Cairo is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as musicians, at 3.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Cairo’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1910s than in any other decade: 4.
SportsMusicPolitics & LawWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Cairo
13 more, best known first.
Curley Williams
1914–1970American country and western musician and songwriter from Georgia
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Cairo 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 (9)
- Jackie Robinson: Harry Warnecke / Frank Livia / Robert F. Cranston / William Klein, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Teresa Edwards: USEmbassyMEX, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mickey Thomas: Carl Lender at https://www.flickr.com/photos/clender/, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Willie Harris: MissChatter on Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daryle Singletary: Cliff1066, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Curley Williams: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- J. J. Wilcox: Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ernest Riles: Milwaukee Brewers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bryan Johnson: MotoRacerTime, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons