
17 famous people were born within 35 miles of Brady Township
Henry C. Warfel, born in Mill Creek, 3 mi away, is the closest. The best known of them is Christina Crosby, with articles in 11 languages. Next door, the list for Mill Creek holds Henry C. Warfel. No entry yet names Brady Township as a birthplace.
What stands out about Brady Township’s famous people
Famous people born near Brady Township
Nobody born in Brady Township is confirmed by English Wikipedia yet. These are the best known born within 35 miles.





Horace Porter
1837–1921United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general


Joseph Rothrock
1839–1922U.S. botanist. mycologist, lichenologist & conservationist


William D. Port
1941–1968United States Army Medal of Honor recipient


John Scott
1824–1896American lawyer and Republican party politician, Pennsylvania


R.W. Dromgold
1856–1918Businessperson and Los Angeles, California politician


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Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Mill Creek has the most on record: one.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Brady Township 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 (15)
- Christina Crosby: Matt Harvey, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David McMurtrie Gregg: Unsure - part of Selected Civil War photographs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Saxton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Horace Porter: The U.S. National Archives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Conrad Porter: A. A. Heller, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William A. Wallace: Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George M. Chilcott: Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Scott: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Amos Myers: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Rothrock: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Milton Speer: most probably Mathew Brady, but the name is not displayed in the source, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Washington Scott: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William D. Port: The original uploader was Kumioko at English Wikipedia., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry C. Warfel: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- R.W. Dromgold: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
