#1Music
Chris Daughtry
born 1979American musician and American Idol contestant
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Famous people · Roanoke Rapids
14 famous people were born in Roanoke Rapids, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Chris Daughtry, the American musician and American Idol contestant, is the most widely known, written about in 25 languages. For every 10,000 residents there are 9.4 on the list, well above the typical North Carolina town’s 1.8. Births span 1904 to 1994, from Fred Vaughan to Nazair Jones. 4 of them were born since 1970.
Born here
14
notable people
Best known
Chris Daughtry
in 25 Wikipedia languages
First
1904
Fred Vaughan
Youngest
1994
Nazair Jones
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Roanoke Rapids’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Roanoke Rapids’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1930s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
SportsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawMusicWriting & ArtsFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Roanoke Rapids
Ranked by languages covered: Chris Daughtry with 25, then George Grizzard with 18 and Leon Rooke with 8.
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What Roanoke Rapids 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.
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Everyone else born in Roanoke Rapids
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Roanoke Rapids 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 (8)
- Chris Daughtry: LUIS BLANCO PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Grizzard: The Bureau of Industrial Service for CBS Television. The Bureau, a division of ad agency Young & Rubicam, was widely used by those in the television industry in the 1950s and 1960s for distributing publicity material., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Leon Rooke: Dan Harasymchuk, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Anderson: Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James E. Cheek: Karl Schumacher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kareem Martin: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Barnes: P & L Promotions, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ron Davis: Jacksonville Jets, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons