No famous person yet from Newark
The longest list of any town in West Virginia belongs to Huntington, with 62. Charleston has the second-longest list in West Virginia, after Huntington, with 48. In West Virginia, 166 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Newark), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Newark has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Newark 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.