#1Famous people · Johnson City
20 famous people were born in Johnson City, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Articles in 16 languages make the American ice hockey goaltender Mike Dunham the best known. Over 90 years of births, the list goes from Doc Farrell (1901) to DaQuan Jones (1991). Births since 1970 account for 3 of the names. More are athletes than anything else, 9 in all.
Born here
20
notable people
Best known
Mike Dunham
in 16 Wikipedia languages
First
1901
Doc Farrell
Youngest
1991
DaQuan Jones
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about Johnson City’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Johnson City’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1940s, at 7.
SportsPolitics & LawMusicScience & MedicineWriting & ArtsFaithMilitaryNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Johnson City
By how many languages cover them, Mike Dunham comes first (16), then Jack Dann (7) and DaQuan Jones (6).
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9 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
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Everyone else born in Johnson City
The rest number 17, with 7 athletes among them.
Lewis E. Platt
1941–2005American engineer, businessman and corporate executive
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Michael
born 1950Orthodox bishop in the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of New York and New Jersey
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Johnson City 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 (13)
- Mike Dunham: cburypix, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Dann: Catriona Sparks, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- DaQuan Jones: Chipermc, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Coury: MrPanyGoff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael: Ted, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Doc Farrell: Goudey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Pawlowski: Best Cards, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lawrence D. Peters: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas W. Libous: EmmanuelPriest, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Sahre: Debbie Millman (https://www.youtube.com/@debbiemillman), CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bridget Moynahan: Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Ross Locke: Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ira Cook: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons