
Born near Lower Frankford Township: 16 famous people within 35 miles
Closest of all is Deborah L. Birx, from Carlisle, 5 mi away. The list for Lower Frankford Township is empty for now. The nearest list is next door in Tyrone Township: one name, John Milton Bernhisel. In all of Pennsylvania, the famous people on record come from 996 towns.
What stands out about Lower Frankford Township’s famous people
Famous people born near Lower Frankford Township
They were born in 8 towns within 35 miles, nearest first.





Rachel Wall
1760–1789American pirate; last woman hanged in the state of Massachusetts

William Henry Miller
1829–1870American politician, Pennsylvania


David S. Kaufman
1813–1851U.S. Representative from Texas
Ethaline Hartge Cortelyou
1909–1997American chemist and scientific technical writer
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Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Tyrone Township counts one famous person.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Lower Frankford 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 (9)
- Deborah L. Birx: The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Armstrong Jr.: By Daniel Huntington (1816–1906) after John Vanderlyn (1775–1852), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Bigler: William F. Cogswell, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Owens: Amin Eshaiker, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rachel Wall: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Wilkins: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David S. Kaufman: Dudley Goodall Wooten, author. The Texas History Company (Dallas, TX), publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Woodburn Skiles: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Milton Bernhisel: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
