#1Famous people · Granite Falls
Eric Church tops a list of 4 famous people born in Granite Falls
Most widely known is Eric Church, the American country singer, with articles in 18 languages. Second place goes to the American-Swedish singer Cyndee Peters, third to Edgar V. Starnes. The biggest group are musicians: 2. For every 10,000 residents there are 8.1 on the list, well above the typical North Carolina town’s 1.8.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Eric Church
in 18 Wikipedia languages
First
1940
Maxie Williams
Youngest
1977
Eric Church
Most common field
Music
2 people
The best known
Born in Granite Falls
Musicians take two of the three places.
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#3Through the years
When Granite Falls’s famous people were born
The 1940s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
MusicPolitics & LawSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Granite Falls is known for
Musicians are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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 Granite Falls
1 more, best known first.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Hickory counts 35 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Granite Falls 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)
- Eric Church: Townsquare Media, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cyndee Peters: Anna Bengtsson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edgar V. Starnes: State of North Carolina, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Hughes: USV, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons