#1Famous people · Owings Mills
7 famous people from Owings Mills, many of them athletes
Articles in 6 languages make the American football player Blake Countess the best known. Close behind are Gerrard Sheppard and Nancy R. Stocksdale. Since 1970, 5 were born, the most of any period. Richard Lemon Owings (1812) and Sean Tucker (2001) mark the two ends of the list.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Blake Countess
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1812
Richard Lemon Owings
Youngest
2001
Sean Tucker
Most common field
Sports
5 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about Owings Mills’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Owings Mills’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1990s than in any other decade: 3.
SportsPolitics & LawNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Owings Mills is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 2 times.
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 Owings Mills
Blake Countess leads with articles in 6 languages, ahead of Gerrard Sheppard (4) and Nancy R. Stocksdale (3).
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Everyone else born in Owings Mills
Of the other 4, 3 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
A chosen home
Also called Owings Mills home
One more notable person made the town home: Jamie O'Brien.
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Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Randallstown, at 5.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Owings Mills 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)
- Blake Countess: Maize & Blue Nation, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerrard Sheppard: Thibous, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nancy R. Stocksdale: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sean Tucker: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Lauren Cobin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Lemon Owings: Original uploader was Decumanus at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Angel Reese: The White House, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ovington Weller: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons