#1Famous people · Medfield
Medfield counts 9 famous people, first among them Hannah Adams
Hannah Adams, the American author, is the most widely known, written about in 20 languages. The next two names are Lisa Halliday and Albert Henry Wiggin. The first birth on record is Hannah Adams’, in 1755, and the last Laura Hallisey’s, in 1986. Births since 1970 account for 3 of the names.
Born here
9
notable people
Best known
Hannah Adams
in 20 Wikipedia languages
First
1755
Hannah Adams
Youngest
1986
Laura Hallisey
Most common field
Writing & Arts
3 people
What stands out about Medfield’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Medfield’s famous people were born
The 1980s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Writing & ArtsBusinessMilitaryPolitics & LawNotableFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Medfield
Writers and artists take two of the three places.
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#3Known for
What Medfield is known for
Set against the usual town, writers and artists come out 3.3 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Medfield
Still to come: 6 more, from 1790 to 1986.
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Around it, Walpole has the most people on record, 18 of them.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Medfield 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)
- Hannah Adams: Francis Alexander, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Albert Henry Wiggin: user:Scewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Klentak: Governor Tom Wolf, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Roberts Bishop: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Allen: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Farrell: Studio, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alice D. Weeks: Data Owner : U.S. Geological Survey Photographer : Patterson, E.F., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam Kyle Sullivan: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons