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Music
Johnnie Allan
born 1938American rock musician and pioneer of the swamp pop musical genre
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Famous people · Rayne
10 famous people were born in Rayne, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Best known of all is Johnnie Allan, written about in 8 languages. The list comes to 14.1 for every 10,000 residents, against 4 in the typical town in Louisiana. Births span 1900 to 1980, from Irene Whitfield Holmes to Josh Reed. Only 42 of the 229 towns in Louisiana with anyone on record list more.
Born here
10
notable people
Best known
Johnnie Allan
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1900
Irene Whitfield Holmes
Youngest
1980
Josh Reed
Most common field
Music
3 people
The best known
Born in Rayne
Languages with an article: 8 for Johnnie Allan, 7 for Jo-El Sonnier, 5 for David Lawrence.
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Sports
David Lawrence
1959–2017American basketball coach and basketball player
5 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Rayne’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1940s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
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What Rayne is known for
Rayne has 5.5× the usual share of musicians.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Rayne 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 (1)
- Jo-El Sonnier: David Simpson (cajunzydecophotos), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons