#1Business
Ed Foreman
1933–2022Texas businessman and former congressman from Texas and New Mexico
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Famous people · Portales
8 famous people were born in Portales, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Ed Foreman leads the list, covered in 10 languages. Second and third on the list are Cody Ross and Baron Vaughn. For every 10,000 residents the town has 6.7, while at least half the towns in New Mexico list nobody born there. Over 77 years of births, the list goes from George F. Ellis (1903) to Baron Vaughn (1980).
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Ed Foreman
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1903
George F. Ellis
Youngest
1980
Baron Vaughn
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Portales’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Portales’s famous people were born
The 1980s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
SportsBusinessFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Portales
Ed Foreman, Cody Ross and Baron Vaughn are written about in 10, 9 and 4 languages.
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What Portales is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.4 times the usual share.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Portales 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 (3)
- Ed Foreman: US Government Printing Office, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cody Ross: SD Dirk on Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Baron Vaughn: CleftClips from Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons