History · Springfield
Close to home
Wikipedia doesn’t list anyone born in Springfield yet, but 22 notable people were born within 35 miles. Here they are, nearest first.
Bergholz · 3 mi
Roy Grimes
American baseball playerJames Beall Morrison
American dentist and dental inventor
Henry Crew
American physicist and astronomerWilliam Milligan Sloane
United States historian
Silas Dustin
American curator
Walter Ford Scott
Mayor of Somerville, New JerseySamuel J. Miller
American historianGordon H. Bower
American psychologistDoc Bundy
American race car driver
Charles C. Green
American politician from OhioJim Stephens
American baseball playerBill Mundy
American baseball playerCal Vasbinder
American baseball player
Rube Marshall
American baseball playerRichard G. Williams
American politicianEddie Maple
American jockey
William Crozier
United States Army Chief of OrdnanceGeorge Hemming
American baseball playerBill Cooper
Player of American football
Daniel McCook, Jr.
Union Army general