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Film, TV & Stage
Fred Armisen
born 1966American comedian, actor and musician
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Famous people · Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg leads Mississippi with 75 famous people
With articles in 34 languages, Fred Armisen is the most widely known. Second place goes to the American athletics competitor Barbara Ferrell, third to Danny Manning. Between 1920 and 1969, 41 were born, the most of any period. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 15.4, close to the 14.3 of the typical Mississippi town.
Born here
75
notable people
Best known
Fred Armisen
in 34 Wikipedia languages
First
1891
Martin Sennet Conner
Youngest
2000
Darrell Luter Jr.
Most common field
Sports
37 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about Hattiesburg’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Hattiesburg’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1940s, at 13.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsMusicNotableMilitaryScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Hattiesburg
Languages with an article: 34 for Fred Armisen, 21 for Barbara Ferrell, 20 for Danny Manning.
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#3Known for
What Hattiesburg is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.4 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Hattiesburg
72 more, 36 of them athletes.
Walter E. Massey
born 1938Physicist, American businessman, college president
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Iola Williams
1936–2019American politician, civil rights activist and museum executive
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Raylawni Branch
born 1941Integrated University of Southern Mississippi in 1965, nursing educator
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Naomi Gray
1922–2006Activist for public health in San Francisco and the first black female Vice President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
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A chosen home
Also called Hattiesburg home
Born elsewhere, Luigi Zaninelli lived here.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 1 have famous names listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Hattiesburg 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 (14)
- Danny Manning: visitelpaso, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Taylor Spreitler: Salpi Bezdjian (SBEZSTARZ365), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Van Dyke Parks: Warner Bros. Records, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dorothy Dell: Screenland Pub. Co., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Moushaumi Robinson: U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brandon D. Bolick/Released, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eddie Hodges: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jesse L. Brown: Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Todd Grisham: Sedsa1 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Floyd: Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Evelyn Gandy: Mississippi Secretary of State, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter E. Massey: Argonne National Laboratory, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Webb Wilder: Brian Mansfield, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Lewis: Keith Allison on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Winston: Daily World, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons