Photo: Mrgriffter · CC BY-SA 4.0Johnson City has yet to put a famous person on the list
Elizabethton’s list, next door, has 12 names, Landon Carter Haynes first among them. 236 of the towns in Tennessee list at least one person. The longest list of any town in Tennessee belongs to Chattanooga, with 56. After Chattanooga, the next longest list in Tennessee is Jackson’s, with 48.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Johnson City), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Johnson City has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Johnson City
1 towns around it have someone on record.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Johnson City 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)
- Landon Carter Haynes: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons