Photo: PopePompus · CC BY-SA 4.0Norwalk has no famous person on record yet
Next door, the list for Des Moines holds 36, Stanley B. Prusiner first. Waterloo has the most of any town in Iowa: 61. After Waterloo, the next longest list in Iowa is Iowa City’s, with 54. 447 towns in Iowa have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Norwalk), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Norwalk has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Norwalk
Close by, Des Moines counts 36 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Norwalk 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 (1)
- Stanley B. Prusiner: Christopher Michel, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons