#1Famous people · Whitesboro
Whitesboro is the birthplace of 5 famous people
Ray Renfro, the American football player, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. Second place goes to the American football halfback Dean Renfro, third to Francis Wade. More are athletes than anything else, 4 in all. Per head, the list is long: 12 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Texas has 0.7.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Ray Renfro
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1894
J. W. Jones
Youngest
1991
Travis Labhart
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Whitesboro
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1DR#2
FW#3
Writing & Arts
Francis Wade
1907–1987Philosopher, Historian, Professor
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Through the years
When Whitesboro’s famous people were born
The 1920s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
SportsWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Whitesboro is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 2.3 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Whitesboro
Of the other 2, 2 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Whitesboro 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)
- Ray Renfro: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons