Photo: Gerry Dincher · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Virginia Township
No famous person on record lists Virginia Township as their birthplace yet. The longest list in Illinois is Alton’s, with 65 names. Champaign City Township has the second-longest list in Illinois, after Alton, with 64. 771 towns in Illinois have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Virginia Township), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Virginia Township has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Virginia Township
The best known from each town bordering Virginia Township.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Virginia 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)
- Finis E. Downing: An Illustrated Congressional Manual. The United States Red Book, 1896, (detail), Collection of U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Vernon Huber: US Navy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons