Photo: Shuvaev · CC BY-SA 4.0Bridgeport has no famous person on record yet
Across the town line, Norristown lists 45, Maria Bello first. The longest list of any town in Pennsylvania belongs to Bethlehem, with 78. Altoona has the second-longest list in Pennsylvania, after Bethlehem, with 69. The Pennsylvania lists hold names for 976 towns.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Bridgeport), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Bridgeport has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Bridgeport
Norristown has the longest list next door: 45.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Bridgeport 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 (2)
- Maria Bello: Gordon Correll, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ann Li: si.robi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons