Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Manchester has no famous person on record yet
Across the town line, Green Lake lists 3, Elda Emma Anderson first. 664 towns across Wisconsin can name a famous person born there. No town in Wisconsin lists more than Racine, with 85. After Racine, the next longest list in Wisconsin is Green Bay’s, with 57.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Manchester), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Manchester has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Manchester
4 towns around it have someone on record.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Manchester 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 (3)
- Elda Emma Anderson: Library of Congress, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Greg Stiemsma: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William O' Neil: Halford Erickson, compiler of the 1903 Wisconsin Blue Book (Life time: 1973), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons