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Famous people · Apex
Apex is the birthplace of 3 famous people
Articles in 6 languages make the American soccer player Matthew Edwards the best known. Behind the leader come Rosa Gill and Will Wynn. Across the town line, Cary lists 18, Claire Curzan first. For its size the list is short: 0.4 for every 10,000 residents, against 1.8 in the typical North Carolina town.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Matthew Edwards
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1943
Rosa Gill
Youngest
2003
Matthew Edwards
Most common field
Sports
2 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
The best known
Born in Apex
Two of the three are athletes.
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Known for
What Apex is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
A chosen home
Also called Apex home
Born elsewhere, Mark Pilgrim lived here.
The town’s pick
Town Square →Who’s the most famous person from Apex?
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Cary leads the towns around it, with 18 names.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Apex 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 (4)
- Rosa Gill: State of North Carolina, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Pilgrim: TimBray, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Claire Curzan: Tanis Coralee Leonhardi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- C. J. Leslie: Verse Photography, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons