#1Science & Medicine
Roderick MacKinnon
born 1956American neuroscientist
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Famous people · Burlington
8 famous people were born in Burlington, most of them between 1920 and 1969
Roderick MacKinnon, the American neuroscientist, is the most widely known, written about in 56 languages. Second and third on the list are Mark Fusco and Martha E. Sewall Curtis. Born in 1811, Jonathan Bowers Winn is the first name on record, and Kelly Browne, born in 2000, the most recent. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 3, close to the 4.5 of the typical Massachusetts town.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Roderick MacKinnon
in 56 Wikipedia languages
First
1811
Jonathan Bowers Winn
Youngest
2000
Kelly Browne
Most common field
Sports
4 people
Also called it home
2
notable residents
What stands out about Burlington’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Burlington’s famous people were born
The 1960s top the chart, with 4 births in the decade.
SportsScience & MedicineWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Burlington
Counted by languages, Roderick MacKinnon is ahead of Mark Fusco and Martha E. Sewall Curtis: 56, 5 and 5.
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#3Writing & Arts
Martha E. Sewall Curtis
1858–1915American woman suffragist, writer
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Known for
What Burlington is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.4 times the usual share.
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 Burlington
5 more, from 1811 to 2000.
A chosen home
Also called Burlington home
Born elsewhere, they lived here: 2 in all, led by Amy Poehler.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Woburn has the most people on record, 31 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Burlington 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 (10)
- Roderick MacKinnon: PotassiumChannel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martha E. Sewall Curtis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles A. Murphy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jonathan Bowers Winn: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Amy Poehler: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marianne Brenton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Benjamin Thompson: Thomas Gainsborough, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Drew Weissman: Thorne Media at 0:08 and 0:28, cropped, brightened, CC BY 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