# The most famous people from the least-noticed countries

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> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> Are there any famous people to have come from Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, Western Sahara, Northern Cyprus or Somalialand? I’m assuming there are zero famous Bir Tawalians

There are “famous” people from everywhere, just as a statistical thing.

There is a little Caribbean island called Saba. The island is 5 square miles, much of that consisting of an active volcano (Mount Scenery), which makes it the highest part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The population is under 2,000.

[Barbara Kassab-Every](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kassab-Every), a landscape painter, is a famous Saban.

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