Photo: Bnperdue2010 · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Bolingbrook is on the famous people list yet
Anthony Parker leads the 42 names listed next door in Naperville. Famous people are on record for 746 of the towns in Illinois. No town in Illinois lists more than Alton, with 65. After Alton, the next longest list in Illinois is Champaign City Township’s, with 64.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Bolingbrook), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Bolingbrook has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Bolingbrook
Around it, Naperville has the most people on record, 42 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Bolingbrook 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 (4)
- Anthony Parker: Keith Allison from Baltimore, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Melissa McCarthy: https://www.flickr.com/photos/greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Anthony: Sayuncle, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Solak: Jeffrey Hyde, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons