#12 famous people come from New Eagle, Joe Montana the best known
Articles in 34 languages make the American football player Joe Montana the best known. The list has one more: the American baseball player Ody Abbott. Over 68 years of births, the list goes from Ody Abbott (1888) to Joe Montana (1956). Across the town line, Monongahela lists 18, Mitch Daniels first.

Born in New Eagle
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Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Monongahela counts 18 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is New Eagle 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)
- Joe Montana: photo taken by flcikr user Phil Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mitch Daniels: White House., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ron Necciai: Stephen V. Russell, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

