#1Famous people · Winthrop
6 famous people were born in Winthrop
Articles in 6 languages make the American politician Samuel P. Benson the best known. Most were born in the early republic: 5 of them. From Samuel P. Benson in 1804 to Del Bissonette in 1899, the births cover 95 years. Only 66 of the 287 towns in Maine with anyone on record list more.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Samuel P. Benson
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1804
Samuel P. Benson
Youngest
1899
Del Bissonette
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 people
What stands out about Winthrop’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Winthrop’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1830s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
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The best known
Born in Winthrop
Counted by languages, Samuel P. Benson is ahead of Elizabeth Armstrong Reed and Del Bissonette: 6, 5 and 4.
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Del Bissonette
1899–1972American baseball player, coach, manager
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What Winthrop is known for
Politics & Law leads the fields, with 1 people.
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Everyone else born in Winthrop
Still to come: 3 more, from 1832 to 1836.
Emily Fairbanks Talbot
1834–19001834-1900 , philanthropist and promoter of higher education for women
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Winthrop 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 (9)
- Samuel P. Benson: Nehemiah Cleaveland (1796-1877), Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. (1798-1884), authors. John Chester Buttre (1821-1893), engraver. James Ripley Osgood & Company (Boston, MA). publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Armstrong Reed: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Del Bissonette: Kashin Publications, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Fillebrown: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Clay Wood: William Arba Ellis, author. Capital City Press (Montpelier, VT), publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Thurston: Colmer, Montagu, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Hubbard: unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Frank Stevens: Originally uploaded by Mr Curly (Transferred by Orlodrim), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Brigham Bishop: John J. MacIntyre, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons