#1Famous people · Taylor
Taylor counts 12 famous people, first among them Tex Avery
Articles in 40 languages make the American animator and director Tex Avery the best known. More than half were born between 1920 and 1969, 6 in all. Over 110 years of births, the list goes from Herron C. Pearson (1890) to Jack Martin (2000). Per head, the list is long: 7 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Texas has 0.7.
Born here
12
notable people
Best known
Tex Avery
in 40 Wikipedia languages
First
1890
Herron C. Pearson
Youngest
2000
Jack Martin
Most common field
Sports
6 people
What stands out about Taylor’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Taylor
Tex Avery, K. C. Jones and Dan Moody are written about in 40, 26 and 11 languages.
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#3Through the years
When Taylor’s famous people were born
The 1930s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageNotableBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
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What Taylor is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.4 times as common.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Taylor 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 (5)
- Tex Avery: Jay Emanuel Publications, Inc., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- K. C. Jones: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Moody: Bain News Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dicky Moegle: Bowman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bully Gilstrap: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons