#1Famous people · Stockbridge
21 famous people were born in Stockbridge, more of them writers and artists than in most towns
Articles in 28 languages make the American businessman Cyrus West Field the best known. Martin Richard Hoffmann, born in 1932, is the youngest, and Benjamin Pond, born in 1768, the first on record. The largest group, 12, was born in the early republic. Only 71 of the 335 towns in Massachusetts with anyone on record list more.
Born here
21
notable people
Best known
Cyrus West Field
in 28 Wikipedia languages
First
1768
Benjamin Pond
Youngest
1932
Martin Richard Hoffmann
Most common field
Writing & Arts
6 people
What stands out about Stockbridge’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Stockbridge is known for
Compared with the usual town, writers and artists are the most over-represented field, at 2.8 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Stockbridge’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1780s, with 4 births.
Writing & ArtsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineFaithNotableBusinessMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Stockbridge
Ranked by languages covered: Cyrus West Field with 28, then Robert Lewis Reid with 20 and Moses Ashley Curtis with 14.
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18 more, best known first.
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4 towns around it have someone on record.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Stockbridge 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 (19)
- Cyrus West Field: Napoleon Sarony, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Lewis Reid: Haeseler Photographic Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Moses Ashley Curtis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Catharine Sedgwick: Charles Cromwell Ingham, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Martyn Field: 1890s edition of notable New Yorkers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Hopkins: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Allen T. Treadway: National Photo Company, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Dwight Sedgwick: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry W. Dwight: John Trumbull, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Richard Hoffmann: Daniel Eugene Greene, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Henry Seeley: Alvin Landon Coburn, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles McBurney: Bbousman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kenneth Whiting: unattributed United States Navy History and Heritage Command photograph, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Fairchild: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marshall Spring Bidwell: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- W. E. B. Du Bois: James E. Purdy / Adam Cuerden, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Finn Wittrock: Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas C. Durant: Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry V. Boynton: Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons