Two moderately famous 19th-centurycomposers were born in my hometown within 46 years of each other.
It doesn’t sound particularly remarkable but my hometown has only about 55,000 inhabitants (probably much less then) and both are somewhat well-known. The former enjoyed some real success in his days and his violin concertos are still played regularly nowadays. The latter is one of the big “what-ifs” of 19th century music.
“Snowflake” Bentley, who was the first person to photograph individual snowflakes, and the origin of the idea/theory/popular fact that no two snowflakes are alike.
Robert Goddard, father of modern rocketry
Arthur Kennedy, Oscar-nominated, Tony Award-winning actor
Abbie Hoffman, radical activist
Samuel Fuller, screenwriter, producer and director
It seems like some people in this thread aren’t taking the OP as literally as I am. According to Wikipedia, Harry Morgan was born in Detroit and raised in Muskegon.
Depends on how you define “home town”. If the one where I was born and with whose culture I identify, the most famous ones are a bunch of ancient kings and modern athletes (mainly the athletes, simply on account of most people only learning about the history of their own countries); if you go by the town where I grew up, probably a pair of medievalJews.