#1Famous people · Accokeek
5 famous people call Accokeek their birthplace
Markel Starks, the American basketball player, is the most widely known, written about in 9 languages. Second place goes to the American-Israeli basketball player Jennie Simms, third to Kyle Arrington. More than half were born since 1970, 5 in all. 5 of them are athletes, more than in any other field.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Markel Starks
in 9 Wikipedia languages
First
1986
Kyle Arrington
Youngest
1994
Jennie Simms
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Accokeek’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Accokeek’s famous people were born
The 1990s alone account for 4 of the births charted here.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Accokeek
All three are athletes.
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#3Everyone
Everyone else born in Accokeek
The rest number 2, with 2 athletes among them.
No one matches both filters.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Accokeek 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 (6)
- Markel Starks: Zafer, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jennie Simms: Kobi Gideon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyle Arrington: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Kinney: Politics and Prose Bookstore, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ty Lawson: Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- A. J. DeLaGarza: BrokenSphere, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons