Hercules Village · Photo: Sanfranman59 · CC BY-SA 3.0Hercules has yet to put a famous person on the list
Of the bordering towns, Vallejo has the longest list: 49, with Jeff Gordon at the top. No town in California lists more than Modesto, with 65. Alameda has the second-longest list in California, after Modesto, with 64. 543 towns in California have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Hercules), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Hercules has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Hercules
Around it, Vallejo has the most people on record, 49 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Hercules 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.
Photo credits (2)
- Jeff Gordon: Zach Catanzareti Photo, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lefty Gomez: Killervogel5, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons