#1Famous people · Sudbury
Sudbury’s famous people span 186 years: 11 births from 1806 to 1992
Scott Evans, the American actor, is the most widely known, written about in 22 languages. The next two names are Matt Savage and Mike Gordon. In the early republic, 5 were born, the most of any period. 3 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
11
notable people
Best known
Scott Evans
in 22 Wikipedia languages
First
1806
Horace Abbott
Youngest
1992
Matt Savage
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
What stands out about Sudbury’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Sudbury’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1960s, with 3 people born in that decade.
Film, TV & StageMusicPolitics & LawFaithBusinessSportsWriting & ArtsScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Sudbury
Musicians take two of the three places.
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#3Known for
What Sudbury is known for
2 of them work in Film, TV & Stage, the biggest field.
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 Sudbury
The rest number 8, with 2 leaders among them.
Lorenza Haynes
1820–1899American librarian, minister, school founder, suffragist, writer
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George Hunt Barton
1852–1933American geologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
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The neighbour with the most names is Concord, at 57.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Sudbury 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 (12)
- Scott Evans: Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Savage: Charles Haynes, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Gordon: Phish1013, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lorenza Haynes: May Wright Sewall, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Homer Rogers: Internet Archive Book Images, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Horace Abbott: Rijksmuseum, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Hunt Barton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tilly Haynes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry David Thoreau: B. D. Maxham, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Schiff: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Josiah Johnson Hawes: Southworth & Hawes, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William David Coolidge: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons