Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts ranks 318th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Antioch, Toledo, Ohio, and Panama City. Memorable people born in Cambridge, Massachusetts include Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.. Memorable people who died in Cambridge, Massachusetts include Emily Greene Balch, Thomas Kuhn, and Roman Jakobson. Cambridge, Massachusetts has been the birth place of many actors, and writers and the death place of many physicists, and writers. Cambridge, Massachusetts is located in United States.
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located directly across the Charles River from Boston. The city's population as of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the most populous city in the county, the fourth-largest in Massachusetts behind Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, and ninth-most populous in New England. The city was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, which was an important center of the Puritan theology that was embraced by the town's founders. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1753 and 1979, Cambridge, Massachusetts was the birth place of 41 globally memorable people, including Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.. Additionaly, 102 globally memorable people have passed away in Cambridge, Massachusetts including Emily Greene Balch, Thomas Kuhn, and Roman Jakobson. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Cambridge, Massachusetts than were born there.
People Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Go to all RankingsPercy Williams Bridgman
PHYSICIST
1882 - 1961
HPI: 76.05
Rank: 4
Charles Sanders Peirce
MATHEMATICIAN
1839 - 1914
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 20
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
WRITER
1809 - 1894
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 14
Matt Damon
ACTOR
1970 - Present
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 36
Douglass North
ECONOMIST
1920 - 2015
HPI: 69.84
Rank: 7
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
WRITER
1815 - 1882
HPI: 66.62
Rank: 17
Lloyd Shapley
MATHEMATICIAN
1923 - 2016
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 8
Sam Waterston
ACTOR
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 40
Leroy Anderson
COMPOSER
1908 - 1975
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 15
E. E. Cummings
WRITER
1894 - 1962
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 23
Peter Navarro
ECONOMIST
1949 - Present
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 33
Paul Michael Glaser
ACTOR
1943 - Present
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 37
People Deceased in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Go to all RankingsEmily Greene Balch
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1867 - 1961
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 91
Thomas Kuhn
HISTORIAN
1922 - 1996
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 22
Roman Jakobson
LINGUIST
1896 - 1982
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 85
B. F. Skinner
PSYCHOLOGIST
1904 - 1990
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 89
Theodore William Richards
CHEMIST
1868 - 1928
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 24
Benoit Mandelbrot
MATHEMATICIAN
1924 - 2010
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 82
Alfred North Whitehead
MATHEMATICIAN
1861 - 1947
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 78
Simon Kuznets
ECONOMIST
1901 - 1985
HPI: 72.97
Rank: 25
Louise Glück
WRITER
1943 - 2023
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 34
Carl Ferdinand Cori
CHEMIST
1896 - 1984
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 90
Gordon Allport
PSYCHOLOGIST
1897 - 1967
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 43
William Lipscomb
CHEMIST
1919 - 2011
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 74
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Cambridge, Massachusetts were actors (11), writers (10), comedians (3), politicians (3), and mathematicians (2), while most who died were physicists (13), writers (10), astronomers (10), mathematicians (8), and philosophers (7).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, including Matt Damon, Sam Waterston, and Paul Michael Glaser. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Cambridge, Massachusetts, including Matt Damon, Sam Waterston, and Paul Michael Glaser.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 24 globally memorable people born in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 1700.