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Cambridge (gbr)

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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, Ernest Rutherford, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. 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. Cambridge became an important trading centre during the Roman and Viking ages, and there is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area as early as the Bronze Age. The first town charters were granted in the 12th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until 1951. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1659 and 2001, Cambridge was the birth place of 50 globally memorable people, including John Maynard Keynes, David Gilmour, and Syd Barrett. Additionaly, 124 globally memorable people have passed away in Cambridge including Stephen Hawking, Ernest Rutherford, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Cambridge than were born there.

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People Deceased in Cambridge

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Cambridge were actors (8), musicians (6), mathematicians (5), athletes (4), and physicists (3),  while most who died were mathematicians (21), physicists (18), chemists (11), economists (10), and biologists (10).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Cambridge, including Olivia Newton-John, Jeremy Northam, and Simon McBurney. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Cambridge, including Olivia Newton-John, Jeremy Northam, and Simon McBurney.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 21 globally memorable people born in Cambridge since 1700.