#1Famous people · Dillon
17 famous people were born in Dillon, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Most widely known is Quanera Hayes, the American sprinter, with articles in 19 languages. For every 10,000 residents there are 26.8 on the list, well above the typical South Carolina town’s 1.5. Fewer than a quarter of the 202 towns in South Carolina with famous people list more. The first birth on record is Edgar Tristram Thompson’s, in 1900, and the last Quanera Hayes’, in 1992.
Born here
17
notable people
Best known
Quanera Hayes
in 19 Wikipedia languages
First
1900
Edgar Tristram Thompson
Youngest
1992
Quanera Hayes
Most common field
Sports
6 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about Dillon’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Dillon’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1910s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawNotableScience & MedicineMusicMilitaryWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Dillon
Ranked by languages covered: Quanera Hayes with 19, then Jimmy Hamilton with 7 and Anthony Waters with 5.
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What Dillon is known for
6 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Dillon
A further 14 follow, born between 1900 and 1981.
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A chosen home
Also called Dillon home
One more notable person made the town home: Ben Bernanke.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Dillon 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 (8)
- Quanera Hayes: filip bossuyt from Kortrijk, Belgium, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Hamilton: William P. Gottlieb, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Waters: Tulane Public Relations, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Willie Jones: Bowman Gum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack C. Stultz: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kenneth Manning: Sage Ross, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen J. Wright: Fisk University, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ben Bernanke: United States Federal Reserve, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons