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Photo: Cayla.campPR · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Petal
3 famous people call Petal their birthplace
At the top of the list is the American baseball player Demarcus Evans, covered in 2 languages. Tom Walters is second and Javon Patterson third. Of the bordering towns, Hattiesburg has the longest list: 75, with Fred Armisen at the top. The list comes to 2.7 for every 10,000 residents, below the 14.3 of the typical town in Mississippi.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Demarcus Evans
in 2 Wikipedia languages
First
1942
Tom Walters
Youngest
1997
Javon Patterson
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Petal
The three best known are all athletes.
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The fullest list close by belongs to Hattiesburg, with 75.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Petal 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.