#1Famous people · North Berwick
North Berwick is the birthplace of 4 famous people
The best known is the American politician Ichabod Goodwin, with articles in 6 languages. Second and third on the list are James N. Buffum and Paul A. Chadbourne. The list comes to 7.8 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Maine, at 6. The biggest group are leaders: 4.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Ichabod Goodwin
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1794
Ichabod Goodwin
Youngest
1823
Paul A. Chadbourne
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
The best known
Born in North Berwick
Counted by languages, Ichabod Goodwin is ahead of James N. Buffum and Paul A. Chadbourne: 6, 3 and 3.
#1#2#3Through the years
When North Berwick’s famous people were born
The 1790s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
Politics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in North Berwick
1 more, best known first.
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5 towns around it have someone on record.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is North Berwick 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)
- Ichabod Goodwin: Signed by E. Billings. Most likely Edwin Tryon Billings (1824–1893), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James N. Buffum: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul A. Chadbourne: Simtropolitan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter M. Neal: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel W. Gooch: Julian Vannerson (1827-1875), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Orne Jewett: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles E. Littlefield: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Sullivan: Gilbert Stuart, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons