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Famous people · Hartsville
18 famous people from Hartsville, many of them athletes
The best known is the American basketball player Shannon Johnson, with articles in 19 languages. Chad Dawson and Jeryl Prescott follow. Since 1970, 8 were born, the most of any period. Only 24 of the 211 towns in South Carolina with anyone on record list more.
Born here
18
notable people
Best known
Shannon Johnson
in 19 Wikipedia languages
First
1864
Charles Coker Wilson
Youngest
1990
Jordan Lyles
Most common field
Sports
14 people
What stands out about Hartsville’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Hartsville’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1970s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
SportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Hartsville is known for
Hartsville has 2.2× the usual share of athletes.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Hartsville
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Everyone else born in Hartsville
The rest number 15, with 12 athletes among them.
No one matches both filters.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Hartsville 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 (9)
- Chad Dawson: The original uploader was Dwightmccann at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeryl Prescott: Sidewalks Entertainment, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Leeza Gibbons: Original uploader was Txcrossbow at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roderick Blakney: Mangass, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Albert Haynesworth: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael A. Lantron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Lyles: Sports Crazy on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bobo Newsom: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony McDaniel: Chrisjnelson at en.wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Coker Wilson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons