#1Famous people · San Marcos
San Marcos counts 15 famous people, first among them Lucious Jackson
Lucious Jackson, the American basketball player, is the most widely known, written about in 19 languages. Per head, the list is long: 2.1 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Texas has 0.7. More are athletes than anything else, 5 in all. 6 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
15
notable people
Best known
Lucious Jackson
in 19 Wikipedia languages
First
1863
Albert Sidney Burleson
Youngest
1994
Taurean Prince
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about San Marcos’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When San Marcos’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
SportsFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineNotableMusicPolitics & LawWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in San Marcos
Athletes take two of the three places.
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What San Marcos is known for
San Marcos has 2.1× the usual share of performers.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in San Marcos
Another 12, 3 of them athletes.
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Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Kyle: 6.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is San Marcos 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)
- Lucious Jackson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Taurean Prince: Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA derivative work: Shakeydeal33, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lynda Day George: CBS Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jon Ecker: iDominick, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Albert Sidney Burleson: George Vincent Buck, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ty Detmer: Dominic Edward Aragon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cheryl L. Shavers: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Donnie Joseph: Minda Haas Kuhlmann: flickr, personal website, twitter, instagram, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons