Famous people · Lake Carroll
Born near Lake Carroll: 15 famous people within 35 miles
Charles S. Lobingier, born in Lanark, 5 mi away, is the closest. The best known of them is Calista Flockhart, with articles in 53 languages. No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Lake Carroll. The longest list of any town in Illinois belongs to Alton, with 65.
Born nearby
15
within 35 miles
Closest
14 mi
Calista Flockhart
Best known
Calista Flockhart
in 53 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Lake Carroll’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near Lake Carroll
The 15 best known born within 35 miles, nearest first.
Albert N. Jorgensen
1899–19787th President of the University of Connecticut
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 Lake Carroll 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