Famous people · Handy Township
Born near Handy Township: 15 famous people within 35 miles
Next door, Iosco Township lists one, Lynn C. Gardner. Charlie Gehringer, born in Fowlerville, 2 mi away, is the closest. No famous person on record lists Handy Township as their birthplace yet. The longest list of any town in Michigan belongs to Dearborn, with 63.
Born nearby
15
within 35 miles
Closest
2 mi
Charlie Gehringer
Best known
Charlie Gehringer
in 11 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Handy Township’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near Handy Township
Nobody born in Handy Township is confirmed by English Wikipedia yet. These are the best known born within 35 miles.
Clarence W. Avery
1882–1949Driving force behind Ford Motor Company's moving assembly line/president/chairman of auto-body supplier Murray Corporation
Glendon Swarthout
1918–1992American western author and novelist
Charles Sumner Burch
1855–1920(1855-1920) American baseball player and bishop
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The neighbour with a name on record is Iosco Township.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Handy Township 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 (9)
- Charlie Gehringer: 1933, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Coon: Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Erik Jones: Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jake Vedder: Rick Snyder, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Glendon Swarthout: Miles swarthout, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Sumner Burch: Samuel Hart, The House of Bishops : the latest portraits of the living bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States in the order of consecration : also a composite group of the House of Bishops which met in Richmond in 1859, New Y…, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam Williams: Bell Brand Snack Foods, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas G. Sharpe: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lynn C. Gardner: Political Graveyard, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons