#1Famous people · East Bridgewater
East Bridgewater counts 11 famous people, first among them Tom Everett Scott
The best known is the American actor Tom Everett Scott, with articles in 30 languages. Benjamin W. Harris, the American politician, comes second, with Nahum Mitchell third. The largest group, 4, was born in the early republic. Over 201 years of births, the list goes from Nahum Mitchell (1769) to Tom Everett Scott (1970).
Born here
11
notable people
Best known
Tom Everett Scott
in 30 Wikipedia languages
First
1769
Nahum Mitchell
Youngest
1970
Tom Everett Scott
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about East Bridgewater’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When East Bridgewater’s famous people were born
The 1970s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
Politics & LawSportsNotableFilm, TV & StageMusicWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in East Bridgewater
Two of the three are leaders.
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What East Bridgewater is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 1.3 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 East Bridgewater
8 more names, born between 1776 and 1963.
No one matches both filters.
A chosen home
Also called East Bridgewater home
Born elsewhere, Gilman Bigelow Howe lived here.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 5 have famous names listed.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is East Bridgewater 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 (11)
- Tom Everett Scott: Gordon Ho, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Benjamin W. Harris: Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nahum Mitchell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ezekiel Whitman: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Isaac W. Sprague: unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Don Colo: Bowman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gilman Bigelow Howe: not stated, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rocky Marciano: Stanley Weston, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mickey Cochrane: Goudey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Spellman: CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexander Parris: W.E. Chickering, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons