Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0No famous person yet from Newton
The longest list of any town in Mississippi belongs to Hattiesburg, with 75. Meridian has the second-longest list in Mississippi, after Hattiesburg, with 68. 261 of the towns in Mississippi list at least one person.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Newton), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Newton has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Newton 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.