#1Notable
Michael Bingham
born 1986American-born British athletics competitor
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Famous people · Sylva
8 famous people were born in Sylva, more of them athletes than in most towns
The best known is the American-Born British athletics competitor Michael Bingham, with articles in 17 languages. The largest group, 5, was born between 1920 and 1969. Only 67 of the 338 towns in North Carolina with anyone on record list more. Births since 1970 account for 2 of the names.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Michael Bingham
in 17 Wikipedia languages
First
1918
David McKee Hall
Youngest
2004
Evy Leibfarth
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Sylva’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Sylva’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1960s, at 2.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Sylva is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.8 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Sylva
Michael Bingham has articles in 17 languages, Evy Leibfarth in 15 and Johnny Oates in 8.
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Everyone else born in Sylva
5 more names, born between 1918 and 1969.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Sylva 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)
- Michael Bingham: Alba Rincón, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Johnny Oates: Tequask, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David McKee Hall: US Government Printing Office (Washington, DC), publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ed Sutton: Jay Publishing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons