History · Brooksburg
Close to home
Wikipedia doesn’t list anyone born in Brooksburg yet, but 19 notable people were born within 35 miles. Here they are, nearest first.
Carrollton · 6 mi
Myron Irving Barker
American French professorGeorge F. Blessing
Mechanical engineerWilliam Frank Wyatt
American classical philologistGeorge Howerton
American organist
Robert Prince
American video game composer
Paul Wolf
American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, former world record-holder
David Graham Phillips
American writerAlphonse John Smith
Bishop of Nashville, Tennessee
Ken Maynard
American actor and stunt performer
Kermit Maynard
Actor, stunt performer
Lydia Moss Bradley
American philanthropist; founded Bradley University, Bradley Park
Edward Eggleston
Novelist, historian, clergymanLucien Shaw
Chief Justice of CaliforniaJack Tingle
American basketball playerReginald H. Thomson
Civil engineer, responsible for "virtually all of Seattle’s infrastructure"Bill Pierce
American baseball playerBob Donewald
American basketball coach