#1Famous people · Madison
17 famous people from Madison, many of them writers and artists
Articles in 14 languages make the major League Baseball pitcher Don Newcombe the best known. The next two names are Ward Moore and Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson. The largest group, 7, was born between 1920 and 1969. The list comes to 10.3 for every 10,000 residents, against 0.5 in the typical town in New Jersey.
Born here
17
notable people
Best known
Don Newcombe
in 14 Wikipedia languages
First
1788
Alexander Duncan
Youngest
1995
Catherine Zimmerman
Most common field
Writing & Arts
7 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about Madison’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Madison is known for
Set against the usual town, writers and artists come out 4.1 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Madison
Counted by languages, Don Newcombe is ahead of Ward Moore and Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson: 14, 13 and 10.
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When Madison’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1920s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Madison
Another 14, 5 of them writers and artists.
Alexander Duncan
1788–1853Member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
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Lincoln Pierson Brower
1931–2018Entomologist and ecologist, known for his work on monarch butterflies
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Amabel Scharff Roberts
1891–1918First nurse from the U.S. to die in France during World War I
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Also called Madison home
Notable people Wikidata lists as living in Madison, though born elsewhere.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Florham Park has the most on record, with 3.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Madison 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 (10)
- Don Newcombe: Cindy Murphy, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ward Moore: Wolfgang Roth, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eddie Trunk: Jax 0677, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Catherine Zimmerman: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lincoln Pierson Brower: USFWS, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel S. Coursen: U.S. Military Academy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Smith: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Austin Sayre: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Guiliana: Heernt, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons