Jesse L. Martin
born 1969American stage, musical theatre, film and television actor
Famous people · Henry Fork
34 famous people were born within 35 miles of Henry Fork
John C. Mather is the most widely known, written about in 70 languages. The nearest, Jesse L. Martin, was born in Rocky Mount, 3 mi away. No entry yet names Henry Fork as a birthplace. Over the border in Rocky Mount, 7 names are on record, led by Jesse L. Martin.
Born nearby
34
within 35 miles
Closest
22 mi
John C. Mather
Best known
John C. Mather
in 70 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Henry Fork’s famous people
★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near Henry Fork
They were born in 11 towns within 35 miles, nearest first.
Lillie Barbour
1885–1985American suffrage activist and labor advocate
John C. Mather
born 1946American astrophysicist and cosmologist
Henrietta Lacks
1920–1951American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line
Eustace Mullins
1923–2010American antisemitic populist writer, biographer, and Holocaust denier
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Henry Fork and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Nearby people are those born in a town within 35 miles; distances are town center to town center. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (21)
- John C. Mather: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope from Greenbelt, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henrietta Lacks: 14GTR, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Payne: Macfadden Publications-page 2., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Huddleston: Trailer to "Breakheart Pass" (1975), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lynn Bari: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jesse L. Martin: Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Louis A. Johnson: Abbie Rowe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eustace Mullins: Fleet Publishing Corporation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Butch Taylor: Diliff, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Posey G. Lester: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Randy Hundley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ward Armstrong: cliff1066, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Leander J. Shaw, Jr.: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roscoe Reynolds: PresidentCardinal76, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tarell Basham: AlexanderJonesi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Darian Grubb: Zach Catanzareti, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Carey Shanks: Bain, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- June Atkinson: EducationNC, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ron Hodges: New York Mets, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Norwood Francis Allman: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tommy Seigler: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1931 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of …, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons