Famous people · Odessa
Born near Odessa: 18 famous people within 35 miles
Jeff Plate, born in Montour Falls, 3 mi away, is the closest. The best known of them is David Foster Wallace, with articles in 56 languages. 1,280 towns across New York can name a famous person born there. The list for Odessa is empty for now.
Born nearby
18
within 35 miles
Closest
14 mi
David Foster Wallace
Best known
David Foster Wallace
in 56 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Odessa’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near Odessa
They were born in 9 towns within 35 miles, nearest first.
Jane Delano
1862–1919American nurse and administrator
Curry Hicks
1885–1964American football coach, college athletics administrator, professor of physical education
David Foster Wallace
1962–2008American fiction writer and essayist
Alex Haley
1921–1992American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
John Maynard Woodworth
1837–1879American physician and Supervising-Surgeon General
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Odessa 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 (8)
- David Foster Wallace: Steve Rhodes, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Haley: University of Texas at Arlington Photograph Collection, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Geller: ServiceAT, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyle Dake: National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dustin Brown: JulieAndSteve, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kate Warne: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jane Delano: American Red Cross., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Maynard Woodworth: Hermann Günther, Hof-Photograph Seiner Majestät des Königs n. Sr.Kgl.H.d. Prinzen Freidrich Carl. Berlin, Werderscher Markt No. 6. Dortmund, Hôtel Bellevue. Essen, vis à vis dem Berg: Märk; Bahnhof., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons