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Cambridge

Cambridge ranks 260th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Belo Horizonte, Birmingham, Alabama, and Cape Town. Memorable people born in Cambridge include John Maynard Keynes, David Gilmour, and Syd Barrett. Memorable people who died in Cambridge include Stephen Hawking, J. J. Thomson, and Ernest Rutherford. Cambridge has been the birth place of many actors, and musicians and the death place of many mathematicians, and physicists. Cambridge is located in United Kingdom.

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, 55 miles (89 km) north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of the City of Cambridge was 145,700; the population of the wider built-up area was 181,137. There is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area as early as the Bronze Age, and Cambridge became an important trading centre during the Roman and Viking eras. The first town charters were granted in the 12th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until 1951. Read more on Wikipedia