Famous people · Holiday Lake
Born near Holiday Lake: 24 famous people within 35 miles
Danai Gurira is the most widely known, written about in 58 languages. The nearest, Bernard F. Meyer, was born in Brooklyn, 6 mi away. The list for Holiday Lake is empty for now. The longest list in Iowa is Waterloo’s, with 61 names.
Born nearby
24
within 35 miles
Closest
15 mi
Danai Gurira
Best known
Danai Gurira
in 58 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Holiday Lake’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near Holiday Lake
They were born in 14 towns within 35 miles, nearest first.
Marjorie Cameron
1922–1995American actress and occultist
Allan Eugene Updegraff
1883–1965American author and journalist
Merle Miller
1919–1986American novelist and writer on homosexuality
George Nissen
1914–2010American inventor of the modern trampoline
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Holiday Lake and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Nearby people are those born in a town within 35 miles; distances are town center to town center. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (8)
- Danai Gurira: Gage Skidmore, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marjorie Cameron: Film directed by Curtis Harrington / American International Pictures, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bruce Braley: U.S. Congress, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mona Guerrant: Aficionada2013, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David R. Nagle: US Congress, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John W. Gwynne: Compiled under the direction of Tom J. White, Superintendent of Printing, by Lester W. Drennen, Editor., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chad Hennings: United States Air Force (name of photographer not given), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Donald Hayworth: US Government Printing Office (Washington, DC), publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons