History · Monroe
Close to home
Wikipedia doesn’t list anyone born in Monroe yet, but 27 notable people were born within 35 miles. Here they are, nearest first.
Gas City · 4 mi
Alta Little
American baseball playerCharles Wesley Shilling
American physician and United States Navy officerJohn Clifford Bugher
American pathologist and public health directorLarry Hedden
Basketball playerMary Eleanor Spear
StatisticianJared Lee
US illustratorRex Wimpy
Special effects artist, cinematographerJohn Harvey Baldwin
American politician – Minnesota -Senate 1915-22 (District 63)Albert Luther Candy
American mathematician
James Dean
American actor
Jim Davis
American cartoonist
Zach Randolph
American basketball player
Thaddeus Shideler
American hurdler
Mary Jane Ward
American writer
Willis Van Devanter
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Scott Wood
American basketball playerCharles E. Rush
American librarianLeo Aloysius Pursley
Catholic bishopHarry Harrison Kroll
American authorDavid Clayton Ford
American lawyer and politicianAllen W. Archer
American geologist