Famous people · River Forest
Born near River Forest: 23 famous people within 35 miles
Closest of all is Cory Edwards, from Anderson, 3 mi away. Cory Edwards leads the 49 names listed next door in Anderson. No entry yet names River Forest as a birthplace. Across Indiana, the lists cover 382 towns.
Born nearby
23
within 35 miles
Closest
3 mi
Cory Edwards
Best known
Cory Edwards
in 27 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about River Forest’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near River Forest
The 23 best known born within 35 miles, nearest first.
Ray Enright
1896–1965American film director, screenwriter and film editor
Joseph Swain
1857–1927American academic and ichthyologist
Melvin E. Biddle
1923–2010United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
John Hazelton Cotteral
1864–1933United States federal judge
Andrew J. Cummins
1868–1923United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
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Around it, Anderson has the most people on record, 49 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is River Forest 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)
- Gary Burton: Tom Beetz @ http://home.hetnet.nl/~tbeetz/index.html, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mack Mattingly: US Congress, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Gaither: Original uploader was Pombeman at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carl Erskine: Bowman Gum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kellen Dunham: Peetlesnumber1, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Wilt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Isabel Withers: Film screenshot (Producers Releasing Corporation), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Cummins: Fantuzzi, Roberto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joey Feek: Burningkarma, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Swain: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Hazelton Cotteral: United States Government, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons