Millville Cemetery · Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Next door to Shelby, Royalton lists 3 famous people
The list for Shelby is empty for now. The longest list of any town in New York belongs to New York City, with 99. Huntington has the second-longest list in New York, after New York City, with 81. 1,280 towns in New York have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Shelby), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Shelby has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Shelby
The fullest list close by belongs to Royalton, with 3.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Shelby 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 (3)
- Belva Ann Lockwood: Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Caldwell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Rankin Gamble: U.S. Government Printing Office, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons