Photo: ToddC4176 · CC BY-SA 3.0Egremont has no famous person on record yet
Next door, the list for Great Barrington holds 26, W. E. B. Du Bois first. The Massachusetts lists hold names for 338 towns. Lawrence has the most of any town in Massachusetts: 63. After Lawrence, the next longest list in Massachusetts is Malden’s, with 63.
Who’s listed here
Famous people come from Wikidata (people whose birthplace is Egremont), checked against each person’s English Wikipedia article and ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover them. Nobody born in Egremont has passed that check yet, and nobody born within 35 miles is listed.
Famous people born near Egremont
Great Barrington leads the towns around it, with 26 names.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Egremont 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 (2)
- W. E. B. Du Bois: James E. Purdy / Adam Cuerden, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Frederick Root: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons