No one from Penn Wynne is on the famous people list yet
Noam Chomsky leads the 30 names listed next door in Philadelphia. 1,012 of the towns in Pennsylvania list at least one person. The longest list of any town in Pennsylvania belongs to Bethlehem, with 78. After Bethlehem, the next longest list in Pennsylvania is Altoona’s, with 69.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Penn Wynne), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Penn Wynne has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Penn Wynne
Philadelphia leads the towns around it, with 30 names.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Penn Wynne 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)
- Noam Chomsky: Augusto Starita / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Theodore Freeman: NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wayne Ellington: Keith Allison from Owings Mills, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons