#1Famous people · Ayer
8 famous people were born in Ayer, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Bill Aucoin, the American band manager, is the most widely known, written about in 7 languages. The next two names are Cheryl Brown and Hester A. Davis. For every 10,000 residents there are 9.3 on the list, well above the typical Massachusetts town’s 4.5. The first birth on record is Rita Briggs’, in 1929, and the last Mike Gillian’s, in 1964.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Bill Aucoin
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1929
Rita Briggs
Youngest
1964
Mike Gillian
Most common field
Music
2 people
What stands out about Ayer’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Ayer’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1940s come out on top, with 2 births.
MusicSportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Ayer
Counted by languages, Bill Aucoin is ahead of Cheryl Brown and Hester A. Davis: 7, 4 and 3.
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What Ayer is known for
2 of them work in Music, the biggest field.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Ayer and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (5)
- Bill Aucoin: LeftfieldPromotion, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cheryl Brown: California State Assembly, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund Charles Tarbell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jerry White: Mike_Winters,_Joe_Mauer,_Jerry_White.jpg: Keith Allison derivative work: Delaywaves talk, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Levi Hutchins: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons