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Marc Andreessen
born 1971American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
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Famous people · Cedar Falls
Marc Andreessen tops a list of 24 famous people born in Cedar Falls
Best known of all is Marc Andreessen, written about in 38 languages. Gerald Guralnik is second and Roger Jepsen third. The oldest name on the list belongs to Joseph Francis Sartori, born in 1858, the newest to Jack Campbell, born in 2000. Between 1920 and 1969, 11 were born, the most of any period.
Born here
24
notable people
Best known
Marc Andreessen
in 38 Wikipedia languages
First
1858
Joseph Francis Sartori
Youngest
2000
Jack Campbell
Most common field
Sports
10 people
What stands out about Cedar Falls’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Cedar Falls’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsBusinessScience & MedicineMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Cedar Falls
Marc Andreessen leads with articles in 38 languages, ahead of Gerald Guralnik (16) and Roger Jepsen (12).
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Leaders stand out most, at 1.4 times the usual share.
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Everyone else born in Cedar Falls
21 more, 10 of them athletes.
Ronald Verlin Cassill
1919–2002Novelist, short story writer, editor, painter, lithographer
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Cedar Falls 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 (10)
- Marc Andreessen: JD Lasica, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerald Guralnik: Moose-32, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger Jepsen: en:United States Senate, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Terry Stotts: File:Terry Stotts.jpg: Portland Trail Blazers derivative work: Shakeydeal33, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gil Gutknecht: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- A.J. Green: Brettforeman 3, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Campbell: Tennessee Titans, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Philo Hagerstrom: United States Air Force, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lou Henry Hoover: Underwood & Underwood, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Florence King: Western Newspaper Union., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons