Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0West Cornwall has no famous person on record yet
The nearest list is next door in Sharon: 14 names, starting with Roswell Rudd. New Britain’s 65 names make the longest list in Connecticut. After New Britain, the next longest list in Connecticut is Waterbury’s, with 59. Famous people are on record for 183 of the towns in Connecticut.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is West Cornwall), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in West Cornwall has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near West Cornwall
Around it, Sharon has the most people on record, 14 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is West Cornwall 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)
- Roswell Rudd: Christian Sahm Aschaffenburg, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Sedgwick: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons