Photo: Dwight Burdette · CC BY 3.0Dexter Township has yet to put a famous person on the list
Webster Township’s list, next door, has one name: Osbert Edwin Williams, Jr.. 507 towns in Michigan have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Michigan belongs to Dearborn, with 63. After Dearborn, the next longest list in Michigan is Muskegon’s, with 61.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Dexter Township), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Dexter Township has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Dexter Township
The most names next door are in Webster Township: one.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Dexter 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)
- William Wedemeyer: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James S. Gorman: ”The House of Representatives of the Fifty Third Congress” (detail), The Graphic Chicago, 1893, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons