Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Wormleysburg has no famous person on record yet
Harrisburg’s list, next door, has 36 names, Newt Gingrich first among them. Across Pennsylvania, 976 towns list someone born there. 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 Wormleysburg), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Wormleysburg has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Wormleysburg
Around it, Harrisburg has the most people on record, 36 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Wormleysburg 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 (1)
- Newt Gingrich: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons