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Frank Malina
1912–1981American aeronautical engineer and painter
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Famous people · Brenham
Athletes stand out among the 29 famous people born in Brenham
The best known is the American aeronautical engineer and painter Frank Malina, with articles in 13 languages. Courtland Sutton and Cecil Cooper follow. Between 1920 and 1969, 11 were born, the most of any period. Births since 1970 account for 9 of the names.
Born here
29
notable people
Best known
Frank Malina
in 13 Wikipedia languages
First
1847
Seth Shepard
Youngest
2000
Dee Winters
Most common field
Sports
16 people
What stands out about Brenham’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Brenham’s famous people were born
The 1980s top the chart, with 5 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawMusicWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineBusinessNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
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What Brenham is known for
Set against the usual town, musicians come out 1.9 times as common.
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 Brenham
Two of the three are athletes.
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Everyone else born in Brenham
Another 26, the earliest born in 1847.
William Ezell
1892–1963United StatesAmerican blues, jazz, ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist and singer
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Jenna Jacobson
born 1982American financial advisor and Democratic politician
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Brenham 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 (14)
- Frank Malina: NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Courtland Sutton: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Cooper: yeeland on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Malcom Brown: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Limas Sweed: Enoch Lai, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lois Kolkhorst: Ed Uthman from Houston, TX, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cleveland Franklin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Seth Shepard: Louis H. Gebhard, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Charles Graves: Ginkgo100, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Austin Schlottmann: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Heidemann: New York Mets, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John W. Brady: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Katie Daffan: Sinclair Moreland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tieman H. Dippel Jr.: Sdippel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons