Famous people · Cooke
Close to home: 12 famous people born near Cooke
Wikipedia doesn’t list anyone born in Cooke yet, so here are the best-known people born within 35 miles, nearest first.
Born nearby
12
within 35 miles
Closest
13 mi
Deborah L. Birx
Best known
Deborah L. Birx
in 26 Wikipedia languages
What stands out about Cooke’s famous people
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Famous people born near Cooke
Wikipedia doesn’t list anyone born in Cooke yet. These are the best known born within 35 miles.
Deborah L. Birx
born 1956American physician and diplomat
Rachel Wall
1760–1789American pirate; last woman hanged in the state of Massachusetts
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Cooke, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Nearby people are those born in a town within 35 miles; distances are town center to town center. People known mainly for crimes aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (8)
- Deborah L. Birx: The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Armstrong Jr.: By Daniel Huntington (1816–1906) after John Vanderlyn (1775–1852), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Bigler: William F. Cogswell, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Owens: Amin Eshaiker, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rachel Wall: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Wilkins: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Hamilton: film screenshot (Warner Bros.), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel D. Sturgis: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons