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Famous people · Liverpool
9 famous people from Liverpool, many of them athletes
Kim Black, the American swimmer, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. More than half were born since 1970, 6 in all. The first birth on record is Doug Heveron’s, in 1961, and the last Jeorgio Kocevski’s, in 2002. Fewer than a quarter of the 1,257 towns in New York with famous people list more.
Born here
9
notable people
Best known
Kim Black
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1961
Doug Heveron
Youngest
2002
Jeorgio Kocevski
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about Liverpool’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Liverpool’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1970s than in any other decade: 3.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Liverpool
Counted by languages, Kim Black is ahead of Tim Green and Doug Heveron: 8, 7 and 4.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Liverpool 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 (2)
- Tim Green: FOX Sports, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Doug Heveron: Mike Traverse, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons