Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person yet from Granville
Harold J. Arthur leads the 10 names listed next door in Whitehall. No town in New York lists more than New York City, with 99. After New York City, the next longest list in New York is Huntington’s, with 81. 1,300 towns across New York can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Granville), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Granville has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Granville
The best known from each town bordering Granville.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Granville 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 (6)
- Harold J. Arthur: Vermont Secretary of State, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Henry Dolph: John Henry Dolph, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Nelson: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Orson Pratt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Rood Doolittle: Studio of Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Oliver Cowdery: James Presley Ball (1825-1904), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons