Photo: Dswisener · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Alachua is on the famous people list yet
Next door, Gainesville lists 47, led by Tom Petty. The longest list of any town in Florida belongs to St. Petersburg, with 57. After St. Petersburg, the next longest list in Florida is Hollywood’s, with 56. In Florida, 284 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Alachua), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Alachua has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Alachua
The most names next door are in Gainesville: 47.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Alachua 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)
- Tom Petty: Ирина Лепнёва, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlie Huggins: AKSenateMajority, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons