Maps of the U.S. and U.K. Where City Names Are Replaced by Their Most Wikipedia’ed Resident

[Vagabond]

A People Map of the US, where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident: people born in, lived in, or connected to a place.
Cambridge, Mass.: Elizabeth Warren
New Haven: George W. Bush
Berkeley: Ben Affleck

A People Map of the UK, where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident: people born in, lived in, or connected to a place.
Edinburgh: Mary, Queen of Scots
St. Andrews: KT Tunstall
Cambridge: Stephen Hawking ?‍?
Oxford: Emma Watson

Thoughts?

 

[pollyanna]

I thought Louisville would be Muhammad Ali, but oddly enough, it's Tom Cruise.

 

[Vash01]

Memphis - Elvis Presley

 

[el henry]

Uh, the Lehigh Valley is not a town, people...

But it doesn’t surprise me that Bethlehem’s native son “the Rock” is most Wikipedia for our town and for the Lehigh Valley.

Will Smith for Philadelphia

 

[Vagabond]

But it doesn’t surprise me that Bethlehem’s native son “the Rock” is most Wikipedia for our town

The Rock is bigger than Jesus, apparently.

 

[Kasey]

We get Dawn Wells from "Gilligan's Island". Could be worse.

 

[floridaice]

For some reason Vicksburg MS, where my husband's family is from, has Jan-Michael Vincent. I see no reference in his Wikipedia entry for Vicksburg and I've never heard of an association. Will have to ask my husband about that. Maybe Jan-Michael made a movie there once?

 

[missing]

Woodmere, Long Island, where I grew up gets Stan Lee, who spoke to my high school creative writing class.

I believe this gives me one degree of separation from cool (which is as close as I'll ever get).

 

[skipaway]

My sister, in Florence SC, has Donald Henry “PeeWee” Gaskins, J. a serial killer. ?