Famous people · Jefferson Township
16 famous people were born within 35 miles of Jefferson Township
Closest of all is Charles N. Fowler, from Lena, 10 mi away. Not one famous person on record comes from Jefferson Township yet. Calista Flockhart is the most widely known, written about in 53 languages. The Illinois lists hold names for 748 towns.
Born nearby
16
within 35 miles
Closest
14 mi
Calista Flockhart
Best known
Calista Flockhart
in 53 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Jefferson Township’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near Jefferson Township
They were born in 5 towns within 35 miles, nearest first.
Albert N. Jorgensen
1899–19787th President of the University of Connecticut
Edward Alphonso Goldman
1873–1946American zoologist
John Lorenzo Griffith
1877–1944American football player and coach, basketball coach, college athletics administrator
Emmert L. Wingert
1899–1971Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Jefferson Township 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 (11)
- Calista Flockhart: Mireille Ampilhac, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louella Parsons: Lowell Sun, December 23, 1941; International News Service photo with earliest date stamp October 9, 1937, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Kingsley Zipf: Freeport High School, Freeport, Illinois., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alfred A. Cohn: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Carl Cain: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund Heller: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Neta Snook Southern: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles N. Fowler: “The U.S. House of Representatives - Portraits of Congressmen” (detail), Once a Week newspaper, 1895, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles S. Lobingier: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lorenzo Griffith: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ward Miller: American Tobacco Company, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons