Famous people · Mark
Born near Mark: 22 famous people within 35 miles
Red Ruffing, born in Granville, 1 mi away, is the closest. The nearest list is next door in Granville: 4 names, starting with Red Ruffing. No famous person’s birth in Mark is on record yet. The best known of them is Jim Bottomley, with articles in 13 languages.
Born nearby
22
within 35 miles
Closest
10 mi
Jim Bottomley
Best known
Jim Bottomley
in 13 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Mark’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near Mark
The 22 best known born within 35 miles, nearest first.
Ed Hall
1870–1932American football and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator, lawyer, and public utilities executive
Robert J. Horner
1894–1935American film producer, director and screenwriter
James Thomas Aubrey, Jr.
1918–1994American film and TV executive
John P. Cromwell
1901–1943United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
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Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Granville: 4.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Mark 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 (15)
- Jim Bottomley: Goudey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Papke: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Herbert Spencer Jennings: Public domain, 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
- Charles Cyrus Kearns: Harris & Ewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ernani Bernardi: Los Angeles Police Department, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ted Kennedy: Ted Kennedy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur R. Hall: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Allard: Seattle Mariners, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dante Magnani: Bowman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John P. Cromwell: US Navy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Goff: Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Kathleen Gorby, USN, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Dent: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons