#1Famous people · Pickens
10 famous people were born in Pickens, most of them between 1920 and 1969
George H. McKee, the united States Air Force general, is the most widely known, written about in 6 languages. Second and third on the list are Elijah Webb Chastain and Browning Bryant. The list comes to 31.7 for every 10,000 residents, against 1.5 in the typical town in South Carolina. Births span 1813 to 1970, from Elijah Webb Chastain to Harold Alexander.
Born here
10
notable people
Best known
George H. McKee
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1813
Elijah Webb Chastain
Youngest
1970
Harold Alexander
Most common field
Military
2 people
What stands out about Pickens’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Pickens’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
MilitaryWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawSportsMusicScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Pickens
Two of the three are soldiers and sailors.
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What Pickens is known for
Soldiers and sailors are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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Everyone else born in Pickens
Another 7, 2 of them writers and artists.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Pickens 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 (4)
- George H. McKee: US Air Force, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Browning Bryant: RCA Records, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer: Moorer, Lizelia Augusta Jenkins (September 1868 - May 24, 1936), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Masters: Bill Masters, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons