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Famous people · Rowlett
4 famous people call Rowlett their birthplace
Marissa Diggs, the American soccer player, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. Second and third on the list are Chase Minter and Jane Slater. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 0.6, close to the 0.7 of the typical Texas town. Over 16 years of births, the list goes from Jane Slater (1980) to Tyler Ivey (1996).
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Marissa Diggs
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1980
Jane Slater
Youngest
1996
Tyler Ivey
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Rowlett
First, Marissa Diggs (5 languages), then Chase Minter (4) and Jane Slater (1).
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Through the years
When Rowlett’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1990s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Rowlett
1 more, best known first.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Garland, at 47.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Rowlett 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 (1)
- Caleb Landry Jones: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons