#1Ted Petoskey
1911–1996American football, basketball, baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Ted Petoskey was born in 1911. That places their birth in the age of mills and railroads. Readers can find them written up in 3 languages. The Michigan lists hold names for 503 towns.

#1American football, basketball, baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is St. Charles 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.