History · Wooster
Close to home
Wikipedia doesn’t list anyone born in Wooster yet, but 30 notable people were born within 35 miles. Here they are, nearest first.
Greenbrier · 4 mi
Justin Williams
Government official, diplomat and professor of historyJimmy Oliver
American basketball player
Rebecca Roanhorse
American speculative fiction author
Ray Thornton
American politicianArchie Clark
American basketball player
Shekinna Stricklen
American basketball player
Symone
American drag performer
Peyton Hillis
American football playerLee Johnson
American basketball playerRupert Bayless Vance
American sociologistJohn Louis Ward
American author and journalistMatt Stell
American country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter
Luther Allison
American blues guitaristElijah Pitts
American football playerPreston Scroggin
American politician
Arthur Jones
American inventorMaurice Jeffers
American basketball playerJack DeWitt
American screenwriterKeith Carter
American college athletics administratorJim McKnight
American baseball playerRichard Blanks Adkisson
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas (1980–1984).Paul Gunn
Recipient of the Purple Heart medalJ. Max Woolly
American educator of the blindEd McGhee
American baseball playerAdam Benjamin O'Guin
Arkansan (1887-1978) also known as Mr. Add