Photo: Idawriter · CC BY-SA 3.0Goshen has yet to put a famous person on the list
The longest list in Virginia is Arlington’s, with 84 names. Newport News has the second-longest list in Virginia, after Arlington, with 60. In all of Virginia, the famous people on record come from 270 towns.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Goshen), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Goshen has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Goshen 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.