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HONOLULU

Most Famous People Born in Honolulu, United States

Notable people

910

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1956

Most distinctive

Surfer 50.2×

Honolulu's roster is an economy of the body. The Surfer count runs at better than fifty times the global baseline — essentially Duke Kahanamoku inventing modern surfing at Waikiki and the postwar longboard generations that followed him — while a Martial Art bench more than twenty times the norm grew out of the Kajukenbo gyms and judo dojos that fed Hawaii's action-cinema pipeline. Underneath sit Wrestler and Swimmer cohorts running back through the plantation-era Baseball leagues that sent players to the majors from the 1950s on.