Famous people · Oark
Close to home: 28 famous people born near Oark
Wikipedia doesn’t list anyone born in Oark yet, so here are the best-known people born within 35 miles, nearest first.
Born nearby
28
within 35 miles
Closest
29 mi
Ronnie Hawkins
Best known
Ronnie Hawkins
in 27 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Oark’s famous people
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★ What stands out · Close to home
Famous people born near Oark
Wikipedia doesn’t list anyone born in Oark yet. These are the best known born within 35 miles.
Minnie Rutherford Fuller
1868–1946American reformer and suffragist
James Bridges
1936–1993American film director and screenwriter
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Oark, 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 aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (8)
- Ronnie Hawkins: John Bauld from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roy Buchanan: RoyBuchananPerforming.jpg: Carl Lender at https://www.flickr.com/photos/clender/ derivative work: WikiAR (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Miller: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Wootton: Mark Dillman (daddyodilly), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brooks Hays: Farm Security Administration, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jesse M. Martin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Stewart: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Boles: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons