Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Yorktown is on the famous people list yet
466 of the towns in Iowa list at least one person. The longest list in Iowa is Waterloo’s, with 61 names. Iowa City has the second-longest list in Iowa, after Waterloo, with 54.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Yorktown), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Yorktown has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Yorktown 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.