#1Juanita Hall
1901–1968American musical theatre and film actress; singer, recording artist
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With articles in 18 languages, Juanita Hall is the most widely known. Belle Adair is second and John Earle third. Per head, the list is long: 5.6 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in New Jersey has 0.5. Born in 1889, Belle Adair is the first name on record, and John Earle, born in 1968, the most recent.
Counted by languages, Juanita Hall is ahead of Belle Adair and John Earle: 18, 9 and 3.
#1American musical theatre and film actress; singer, recording artist
#2Births peak in the 1900s, with 1 people born in that decade.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
2 of them work in Film, TV & Stage, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
1 more, best known first.
Born elsewhere, Fred Astaire lived here.

Pick one and say why. Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Be the first to say who Keyport’s most famous person is.
Hazlet Township leads the towns around it, with 6 names.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Keyport 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.