Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0Channing has yet to put a famous person on the list
In all of Texas, the famous people on record come from 627 towns. No town in Texas lists more than Beaumont, with 63. Abilene has the second-longest list in Texas, after Beaumont, with 57.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Channing), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Channing has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Channing 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.