Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0Jamestown has yet to put a famous person on the list
The longest list of any town in Missouri belongs to St. Joseph, with 57. After St. Joseph, the next longest list in Missouri is Columbia’s, with 51. 389 of the towns in Missouri list at least one person.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Jamestown), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Jamestown has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Jamestown 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.