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Famous people · Billerica
From 1778 to 1986, Billerica was the birthplace of 12 famous people
Articles in 7 languages make the American soccer player Brett Maron the best known. Brett Maron, the best known, was born in 1986. More are athletes than anything else, 6 in all. 3 of them were born since 1970.
Born here
12
notable people
Best known
Brett Maron
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1778
Joseph Richardson
Youngest
1986
Kory Falite
Most common field
Sports
6 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about Billerica’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Billerica’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 3.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineMusicFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Billerica
Counted by languages, Brett Maron is ahead of Julius Sumner Miller and Jim Todd: 7, 6 and 5.
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Known for
What Billerica is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Billerica
Still to come: 9 more, from 1778 to 1986.
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A chosen home
Also called Billerica home
One more notable person made the town home: Mary Gambale.
The town’s pick
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Chelmsford has the most people on record, 13 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Billerica 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 (8)
- Onslow Stearns: Granite State Monthly magazine, Volume 2, Number 9 (June, 1879), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Miller: Boston University, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry A. Stearns: Source: An Illustrated History of Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Vicinity by Robert Grieve (1897)., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- B. J. Snowden: liz west from Boxborough, MA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roderick MacKinnon: PotassiumChannel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Neera Tanden: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ezra Otis Kendall: William Curtis Taylor, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Albert Davis Taylor: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons