Photo: artistmac · CC BY-SA 2.0Normal Township has no famous person on record yet
Clinton Davisson leads the 54 names listed next door in Bloomington. 746 of the towns in Illinois list at least one person. The longest list in Illinois is Alton’s, with 65 names. 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 Normal Township), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Normal Township has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Normal Township
Around it, Bloomington has the most people on record, 54 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Normal Township 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 (2)
- Clinton Davisson: Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- McLean Stevenson: CBS Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons