Brooks House · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMiddlesborough has yet to put a famous person on the list
The longest list of any town in Kentucky belongs to Covington, with 54. Bowling Green has the second-longest list in Kentucky, after Covington, with 47. Across Kentucky, 224 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Middlesborough), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Middlesborough has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Middlesborough 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.