Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland ranks 1,095th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Rye, New York, Winchester, and 6th arrondissement of Paris. Memorable people born in Silver Spring, Maryland include Nora Roberts, Rian Johnson, and Jessie T. Usher. Memorable people who died in Silver Spring, Maryland include Mary Harris Jones, Rachel Carson, and Bruno Bettelheim. Silver Spring, Maryland has been the birth place of many actors, and basketball players and the death place of many writers, and social activists. Silver Spring, Maryland is located in United States.
Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, it is an edge city with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census, making it the fifth-most-populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Germantown, and Waldorf. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1950 and 1995, Silver Spring, Maryland was the birth place of 14 globally memorable people, including Nora Roberts, Rian Johnson, and Jessie T. Usher. Additionaly, 11 globally memorable people have passed away in Silver Spring, Maryland including Mary Harris Jones, Rachel Carson, and Bruno Bettelheim.
People Born in Silver Spring, Maryland
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Nora Roberts
WRITER
1950 - Present
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 3
Rian Johnson
FILM DIRECTOR
1973 - Present
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 6
Jessie T. Usher
ACTOR
1992 - Present
HPI: 51.45
Rank: 13
Josh Hart
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1995 - Present
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 12
Lisa Ann Walter
ACTOR
1963 - Present
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 5
Kate Siegel
ACTOR
1982 - Present
HPI: 44.56
Rank: 7
Bill Callahan
MUSICIAN
1966 - Present
HPI: 43.99
Rank: 8
Dan Futterman
ACTOR
1967 - Present
HPI: 43.01
Rank: 9
Rebecca Sugar
COMIC ARTIST
1987 - Present
HPI: 42.94
Rank: 11
Victor Oladipo
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1992 - Present
HPI: 41.32
Rank: 4
Jerian Grant
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1992 - Present
HPI: 39.92
Rank: 14
Natalie Dell
ATHLETE
1985 - Present
HPI: 34.63
Rank: 1
People Deceased in Silver Spring, Maryland
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Mary Harris Jones
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1837 - 1930
HPI: 78.47
Rank: 7
Rachel Carson
BIOLOGIST
1907 - 1964
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 2
Bruno Bettelheim
PSYCHOLOGIST
1903 - 1990
HPI: 68.62
Rank: 1
Jim "Bad News" Barnes
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1941 - 2002
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 9
George Adamski
WRITER
1891 - 1965
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 4
Katherine Anne Porter
WRITER
1890 - 1980
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 10
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
CHEMIST
1925 - 1983
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 5
Charles Sheffield
PHYSICIST
1935 - 2002
HPI: 52.92
Rank: 3
Evelyn Boyd Granville
MATHEMATICIAN
1924 - 2023
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 11
Jean E. Sammet
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1928 - 2017
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 8
Andreas Makris
COMPOSER
1930 - 2005
HPI: 39.07
Rank: 6
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Silver Spring, Maryland were actors (4), basketball players (4), writers (1), film directors (1), and musicians (1), while most who died were writers (2), social activists (1), biologists (1), psychologists (1), and basketball players (1).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Silver Spring, Maryland, including Jessie T. Usher, Lisa Ann Walter, and Kate Siegel. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Silver Spring, Maryland, including Jessie T. Usher, Lisa Ann Walter, and Kate Siegel.
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Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 0 globally memorable people born in Silver Spring, Maryland since 1700.
