#1Famous people · Sand Springs
Mae Young tops a list of 7 famous people born in Sand Springs
Articles in 19 languages make the American professional wrestler Mae Young the best known. 6 of them were born between 1920 and 1969, more than in any other period. Only 52 of the 318 towns in Oklahoma with anyone on record list more. For its size the list is short: 3.5 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.2 in the typical Oklahoma town.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Mae Young
in 19 Wikipedia languages
First
1923
Mae Young
Youngest
1961
Sam Harris
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Sand Springs
Two of the three are athletes.
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#3Through the years
When Sand Springs’s famous people were born
The 1920s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Sand Springs is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, at 2 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Sand Springs
Another 4, 3 of them leaders.
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Of the towns nearby, 3 have famous names listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Sand Springs 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 (7)
- Mae Young: Yagobo79 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam Harris: Greg Hernandez (Greg in Hollywood), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jerry Adair: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jadine Nollan: Oklahoma Legislative Service Bureau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jennifer Jones: Studio Publicity, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Melinda Mercado: KazLovesPinoe, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lee Hazlewood: Scanpix, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons