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Garoua (cmr)

Cameroon

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Garoua ranks 1,912th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Smolensk Governorate, Ithaca, New York, and East Orange, New Jersey. Memorable people born in Garoua include Ahmadou Ahidjo, Issa Hayatou, and Vincent Aboubakar. Garoua has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians. Garoua is located in Cameroon.

Garoua is a port city and the capital of the North Region of Cameroon, lying on the Benue River. A thriving centre of the textiles and cotton industries, the city has approximately 1,285,000 inhabitants in 2020, mostly Fulbe/Fulani people. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1924 and 2000, Garoua was the birth place of 8 globally memorable people, including Ahmadou Ahidjo, Issa Hayatou, and Vincent Aboubakar.

People Born in Garoua

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Garoua were soccer players (6), and politicians (2),  while most who died were .

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Garoua, including Vincent Aboubakar, Nicolas Alnoudji, and Benoît Angbwa. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Garoua, including Vincent Aboubakar, Nicolas Alnoudji, and Benoît Angbwa.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 2 globally memorable people born in Garoua since 1700.