#1Famous people · Sumas
Sumas is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Gale Bishop, the American basketball player, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. Second and third on the list are Joe Cipriano and Cecil Edmund Yarwood. Born in 1893, Roy F. Jones is the first name on record, and Joe Cipriano, born in 1931, the most recent. 2 of them are athletes, more than in any other field.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Gale Bishop
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1893
Roy F. Jones
Youngest
1931
Joe Cipriano
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Sumas
The three are covered in 8, 2 and 1 languages: Gale Bishop, Joe Cipriano and Cecil Edmund Yarwood.
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Through the years
When Sumas’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1920s than in any other decade: 1.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Sumas is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Sumas
1 more, best known first.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Sumas 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 (2)
- Gale Bishop: Bowman Gum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Cipriano: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons