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Downtown Hagerstown on Franklin StreetPhoto: Charlotte Jackson · CC BY 4.0
Famous people · Hagerstown

Hagerstown has no famous person on record yet

Across Maryland, 193 towns list someone born there. Frederick’s 55 names make the longest list in Maryland. After Frederick, the next longest list in Maryland is Bethesda’s, with 52.

Who’s listed here

Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Hagerstown), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Hagerstown has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.

Back to Hagerstown

From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Hagerstown 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.