History · Ferrum
Close to home
Wikipedia doesn’t list anyone born in Ferrum yet, but 22 notable people were born within 35 miles. Here they are, nearest first.
Rocky Mount · 8 mi
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American football playerLillie Barbour
American suffrage activist and labor advocateHarvey Cloyd Philpott
American politicianMike Neill
Baseball playerCharles Shufford
American boxerRabih Abdullah
Professional football running backTodd Hundley
American baseball player
John C. Mather
American astrophysicist and cosmologist
Henrietta Lacks
American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line
John Payne
American actor
David Huddleston
American actor
Lynn Bari
American actress
Louis A. Johnson
American politicianTony Atlas
American professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and powerlifterTheophilus Painter
American zoologistRuth Painter Randall
American historianShanna Young
American mixed martial arts fighter