Photo: Chris Yunker · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Maplewood is on the famous people list yet
Of the bordering towns, St. Louis has the longest list: 22, with T. S. Eliot at the top. St. Joseph’s 57 names make the longest list in Missouri. After St. Joseph, the next longest list in Missouri is Columbia’s, with 51. In all of Missouri, the famous people on record come from 387 towns.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Maplewood), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Maplewood has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Maplewood
Around it, St. Louis has the most people on record, 22 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Maplewood 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)
- T. S. Eliot: Thomas Stearns Eliot with his sister and his cousin by Lady Ottoline Morrell.jpg: Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938) derivative work: Octave.H, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Bomer: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons