El Portal Old Schoolhouse · Photo: John Joseph Crane · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person yet from El Portal
The longest list of any town in California belongs to Modesto, with 65. Alameda has the second-longest list in California, after Modesto, with 64. Across California, the lists cover 551 towns.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is El Portal), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in El Portal has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is El Portal 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.