Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Dryden yet, but Ithaca next door has 53
1,285 of the towns in New York list at least one person. The longest list in New York is New York City’s, with 99 names. Huntington has the second-longest list in New York, after New York City, with 81. The best known born in Ithaca is David Foster Wallace.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Dryden), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Dryden has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Dryden
Around it, Ithaca has the most people on record, 53 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Dryden 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 (4)
- David Foster Wallace: Steve Rhodes, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Austin Blair: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Bradley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Martha B. O'Donnell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons