#1Famous people · Cambridge
Cambridge’s famous people span 154 years: 4 births from 1846 to 2000
Articles in 13 languages make the American chemist Harmon Northrop Morse the best known. Second and third on the list are Anson D. Morse and Lucy Wheelock. The list comes to 10.6 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Vermont, at 14.7. The biggest group are writers and artists: 2.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Harmon Northrop Morse
in 13 Wikipedia languages
First
1846
Anson D. Morse
Youngest
2000
Lucy Boyden
Most common field
Writing & Arts
2 people
The best known
Born in Cambridge
Writers and artists take two of the three places.
#1#2#3Through the years
When Cambridge’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1840s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
Writing & ArtsScience & MedicinePolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Cambridge is known for
The field with the most names is Writing & Arts: 2.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Cambridge
1 more, best known first.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Stowe’s, at 8 names.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Cambridge 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 (11)
- Harmon Northrop Morse: Schaefer & Sons, photographer; Louis P. Dieterick, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anson D. Morse: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lucy Wheelock: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lucy Boyden: ORCA Media, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Dutton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Luke P. Poland: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Julian Scott: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- L. M. Shaw: George Grantham Bain, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elmina M. Roys Gavitt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Israel Bush Richardson: Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress)., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Cale: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons