Clifford Dukes
born 1981Player of American and Canadian football
Famous people · Piney Point
17 famous people were born within 35 miles of Piney Point
Closest of all is Clifford Dukes, from Lexington Park, 8 mi away. Alfred Gough is the most widely known, written about in 19 languages. No famous person on record lists Piney Point as their birthplace yet. 190 of the towns in Maryland list at least one person.
Born nearby
17
within 35 miles
Closest
13 mi
Alfred Gough
Best known
Alfred Gough
in 19 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Piney Point’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near Piney Point
They were born in 9 towns within 35 miles, nearest first.
Alfred Gough
born 1967American screenwriter and producer
James R. Lewis
1949–2022Writer and academic specializing in various religious movements
Jerome Adams
born 1974Surgeon General of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Thomas Croxton
1822–1903U.S. Representative from Virginia
Ruth Virginia Bayton
1907–2000American-born entertainer and actress
John Mitchell
1711–1768Colonial American doctor and botanist
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Piney Point 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 (6)
- Alfred Gough: Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jerome Adams: U.S. Public Health Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Benedict Joseph Fenwick: James Bowman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- T.J. Carter: Savvasg21, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Torrey Smith: Maryland GovPics, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Atkinson Jones: Work of the US federal government and therefore in the public domain, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons