Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person born in Meriden is listed yet
Across the town line, Middletown lists 47, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck first. New Britain has the most of any town in Connecticut: 65. After New Britain, the next longest list in Connecticut is Waterbury’s, with 59. 183 towns across Connecticut can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Meriden), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Meriden has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Meriden
Middletown has the longest list next door: 47.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Meriden 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 (6)
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck: JH_van_Vleck_and_HBG_Casimir,_1974.jpg: Unknown derivative work: Materialscientist, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Clarence Dutton: photographer unknown -- property of US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Robinson: Conder, C. R. (Claude Reignier), 1848-1910, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Van Der Beek: gdcgraphics, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Emma Willard: Emma Willard, ca. 1805-1815., CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alfred Kelley: Orth, Samuel Peter (1910). A History of Cleveland, Ohio. Volume I. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., p. 690 overleaf, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons