#1Frederick T. Frelinghuysen
1817–1885American lawyer and politician
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, the American lawyer and politician, is the most widely known, written about in 25 languages. Second and third on the list are John Frederick Frelinghuysen and Ferdinand Schureman Schenck. The earliest on the list is John Frederick Frelinghuysen, born in 1776, and the youngest Charles Titus, born in 1838. The longest list in New Jersey is Hackensack’s, with 62 names.

Leaders take two of the three places.
#1American lawyer and politician
American politician
The 1810s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Leaders are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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.
No one matches both filters.
Pick one and say why. Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Be the first to say who Millstone’s most famous person is.
Close by, Hillsborough Township counts 7 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Millstone 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.