Famous people · South Weldon
Born near South Weldon: 24 famous people within 35 miles
The nearest, Jimmy Soul, was born in Weldon, 1 mi away. Chris Daughtry is the most widely known, written about in 25 languages. Of the famous people on record, none was born in South Weldon. No town in North Carolina lists more than Wilmington, with 67.
Born nearby
24
within 35 miles
Closest
3 mi
Chris Daughtry
Best known
Chris Daughtry
in 25 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about South Weldon’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near South Weldon
The 24 best known born within 35 miles, nearest first.
Chris Daughtry
born 1979American musician and American Idol contestant
Helen G. Edmonds
1911–1955American historian, scholar, and civic leader
Julian Myrick
1880–1969American insurance salesman and tennis promoter
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is South Weldon 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 (16)
- Chris Daughtry: LUIS BLANCO PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kent Bazemore: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Eaton: Posthumes Porträt von de:Robert Walter Weir (1803–1889) aus dem Jahre 1873, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Grizzard: The Bureau of Industrial Service for CBS Television. The Bureau, a division of ad agency Young & Rubicam, was widely used by those in the television industry in the 1950s and 1960s for distributing publicity material., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Y. Mason: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chuck Brown: No machine-readable author provided. Gyrofrog assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Bryant Stith: Rikster2, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Jordan: Jeno's, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John N. Dalton: SGT M.E. CHRISTAIN, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Raynor Scheine: Krayfish, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Delaney Rudd: The Chronicle, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elliott Sadler: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Leon Rooke: Dan Harasymchuk, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Walton Kitchin: Bain News Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wilson Roosevelt Jerman: Tina Hager, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Ruffin Cox: Mrs. Eliphalet F. Andrews (Marietta Minnigerode Andrews), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons