Born near Pleasantview Township: 9 famous people within 35 miles
Robert Klark Graham, born in Harbor Springs, 6 mi away, is the closest. The best known of them is Claude Shannon, with articles in 70 languages. No entry yet names Pleasantview Township as a birthplace. 502 towns in Michigan have at least one famous person on record.
What stands out about Pleasantview Township’s famous people
Famous people born near Pleasantview Township
They were born in 4 towns within 35 miles, nearest first.

Raymond Wesley Starr
1888–1968United States federal judge

Claude Shannon
1916–2001American mathematician and information theorist



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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Pleasantview 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 (5)
- Claude Shannon: Jacobs, Konrad, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- Megan Boone: Thibault, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Malpass: Franz Mahr (World Bank), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bruce Catton: Library of Congress, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Raymond Wesley Starr: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons