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Sports
Willie Parker
born 1980American gridiron football player; running back
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Famous people · Clinton
Clinton’s famous people span 229 years: 23 births from 1769 to 1998
Willie Parker is the best known, with articles in 8 languages. Between 1920 and 1969, 9 were born, the most of any period. Births since 1970 account for 7 of the names. Athletes make up the largest group, 12 of them.
Born here
23
notable people
Best known
Willie Parker
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1769
Gabriel Holmes
Youngest
1998
Jaylen Warren
Most common field
Sports
12 people
What stands out about Clinton’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Clinton’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1940s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Clinton
Athletes take two of the three places.
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What Clinton is known for
Clinton has 1.5× the usual share of athletes.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Clinton 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 (11)
- Sam Aiken: Patriots_panorama.jpg: Jeffrey Beall derivative work: Arbor to SJ, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Algernon Lee Butler: Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cody Stanley: Joel Dinda on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jaylen Warren: Cramerwiki, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roy Crumpler: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rube Benton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ruby B. DeMesme: United States Government, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Terry Holland: University of North Carolina, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- W. Brent Jackson: NC General Assembly, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Curtis Smith: IHRAHistory, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Teresa King: Steve Reeves, Fort Jackson Leader, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons