Famous people · De Pue
Born near De Pue: 24 famous people within 35 miles
The best known of them is Zez Confrey, with articles in 14 languages. Closest of all is Thomas Dent, from Hennepin, 5 mi away. So far, no famous person on record was born in De Pue. Famous people are on record for 750 of the towns in Illinois.
Born nearby
24
within 35 miles
Closest
9 mi
Zez Confrey
Best known
Zez Confrey
in 14 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about De Pue’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near De Pue
They were born in 10 towns within 35 miles, nearest first.
Robert J. Horner
1894–1935American film producer, director and screenwriter
Ed Hall
1870–1932American football and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator, lawyer, and public utilities executive
Charles Torrey Simpson
1846–1932American botanist, malacologist, and conservationist
James Thomas Aubrey, Jr.
1918–1994American film and TV executive
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is De Pue 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 (17)
- Zez Confrey: Unnamed photographer for Bain News Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Papke: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- J. A. Happ: Keith Allison from Owings Mills, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Red Ruffing: Goudey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Atwood Kofoid: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chad Durbin: Kevin Burkett on Flickr (Original version) User UCinternational (Crop), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nora Kirkpatrick: DouglasDoug, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Albert Benedict Wolfe: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Florence Holbrook: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Warren Crandall Giles: J. G. Taylor Spink, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ernani Bernardi: Los Angeles Police Department, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Russ Meyer: Bowman Gum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield: Harris & Ewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Allard: Seattle Mariners, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dante Magnani: Bowman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Goff: Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Kathleen Gorby, USN, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Dent: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons