Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Edwardsville has yet to put a famous person on the list
No town in Alabama lists more than Selma, with 70. Tuscaloosa has the second-longest list in Alabama, after Selma, with 65. Across Alabama, the lists cover 296 towns.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Edwardsville), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Edwardsville has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Edwardsville 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.