Famous people · Rougemont
Born near Rougemont: 26 famous people within 35 miles
Fred Brooks is the most widely known, written about in 43 languages. Closest of all is Darius McGhee, from Roxboro, 13 mi away. Not one famous person on record comes from Rougemont yet. The longest list of any town in North Carolina belongs to Wilmington, with 67.
Born nearby
26
within 35 miles
Closest
16 mi
Fred Brooks
Best known
Fred Brooks
in 43 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Rougemont’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near Rougemont
They were born in 12 towns within 35 miles, nearest first.
Thomas Hart Benton
1782–1858State Senator from Tennessee, Senator and U.S. Representative from Missouri
Kenneth Lewis Anderson
1805–1845Lawyer, the fourth and last Vice President of the Republic of Texas
Fred Brooks
1931–2022American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering
Christopher Browning
born 1944American historian of the Holocaust
Loudon Wainwright III
born 1946American singer-songwriter, humorist, and actor
Taylor Sheridan
born 1970American producer, screenwriter and director
Charity Adams Earley
1918–2002United States African American woman Army officer
Soupy Sales
1926–2009American comedian, actor and radio/television personality
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Rougemont and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Nearby people are those born in a town within 35 miles; distances are town center to town center. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (21)
- Fred Brooks: Copyright owned by SD&M (www.sdm.de), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Buchanan Duke: N/A, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Seth Wescott: http://www.VancityAllie.com, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Loudon Wainwright III: Carl Lender at https://www.flickr.com/photos/clender/, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Browning: Harvey Kneeslapper, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Betty Davis: Just Sunshine Records, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Hart Benton: Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Clyde McPhatter: General Artists Corporation/Marvin Drager, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Donna Edwards: U.S. Congress, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Soupy Sales: Nightscream, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Logan Pause: Longbomb / Wilson Wong, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charity Adams Earley: U.S. Army, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dexter Lawrence: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Bibby: Larry Sharkey, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Isaiah Hicks: Rikster2, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- W. Kerr Scott: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Darius McGhee: Cotton Puryear, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Franklin Wills Hancock, Jr.: Harris & Ewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Taylor Vancil: Harvardton, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Benjamin Chavis: MeetDrBen; cropped by Beyond My Ken 03:33, 14 February 2014 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Hosea Kerr: Image courtesy of the Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons