#1Famous people · Burrillville
4 famous people call Burrillville their birthplace
Oscar Lapham, the American politician, is the most widely known, written about in 6 languages. Close behind are Gilbert F. Robbins and Henry Francis Walling. Births span 1816 to 1838, from Benedict Lapham to Gilbert F. Robbins. More are leaders than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Oscar Lapham
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1816
Benedict Lapham
Youngest
1838
Gilbert F. Robbins
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Burrillville
Leaders take two of the three places.
#1
#2Politics & Law
Gilbert F. Robbins
1838–1889Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
HW#3
Science & Medicine
Henry Francis Walling
1825–1888American civil engineer and cartographer
3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Burrillville’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1830s, at 2.
Politics & LawScience & MedicineBusiness
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What Burrillville is known for
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Burrillville 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 (7)
- Oscar Lapham: Snow & Farnham (Providence, RI), printer and publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gilbert F. Robbins: Creator:C.W. Stetson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Benedict Lapham: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Augustine Lonergan: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Rawlings: Yaffa, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John R. Thayer: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles H. Page: ”The House of Representatives of the Fifty Third Congress” (detail), The Graphic Chicago, 1893, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons