History · Jordan
Close to home
Wikipedia doesn’t list anyone born in Jordan yet, but 24 notable people were born within 35 miles. Here they are, nearest first.
Rensselaer · 7 mi
Augustus Phillips
American actor
Tom Harmon
American football player and sportscaster
Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
American author, journalist and teacher
George W. Faris
American politician
Michael Stephen Kanne
United States federal judge
Randall L. Tobias
American diplomatFrances Janssen
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League playerJames Byrnie Shaw
American mathematicianWilliam A. Rawles
American academic
Eddie Condon
US musicianJohn Burger
American politicianWinona Hazel Welch
U.S. botanist, bryologist, professorBion Shively
American harness racing trainer-driverMarty Ravellette
American disabled personalityA. C. Constable
American politician – Minnesota -House 1939-40 (District 11)Warren T. McCray
Governor of IndianaDon Rader
Baseball playerAl Humphreys
American football coach and college athletics administrator
George Ade
American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright
Sam Rice
American baseball player
Alice Chancellor
American engineer
Tracy Smith
Baseball coach