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, 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.
People Born in Cambridge
Go to all RankingsJohn Maynard Keynes
ECONOMIST
1883 - 1946
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 1
David Gilmour
MUSICIAN
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 2
Syd Barrett
MUSICIAN
1946 - 2006
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 3
Olivia Newton-John
ACTOR
1948 - 2022
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 4
George Paget Thomson
PHYSICIST
1892 - 1975
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 5
Richard Attenborough
FILM DIRECTOR
1923 - 2014
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 6
Douglas Adams
WRITER
1952 - 2001
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 7
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
CHEMIST
1897 - 1978
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 8
Andrew Wiles
MATHEMATICIAN
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 9
Bob Klose
MUSICIAN
1945 - Present
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 10
Frank P. Ramsey
MATHEMATICIAN
1903 - 1930
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 11
Charles Galton Darwin
PHYSICIST
1887 - 1962
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Cambridge
Go to all RankingsDamaris Cudworth Masham
PHILOSOPHER
1659 - 1708
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 14
G. D. H. Cole
ECONOMIST
1889 - 1959
HPI: 43.16
Rank: 30
Nellie Sengupta
POLITICIAN
1886 - 1973
HPI: 42.92
Rank: 31
Jacquetta Hawkes
ARCHAEOLOGIST
1910 - 1996
HPI: 38.92
Rank: 37
Jack Hobbs
CRICKETER
1882 - 1963
HPI: 36.63
Rank: 38
Jenny Saville
PAINTER
1970 - Present
HPI: 34.93
Rank: 40
Chris Geere
ACTOR
1981 - Present
HPI: 27.38
Rank: 42
Luke Chadwick
SOCCER PLAYER
1980 - Present
HPI: 20.20
Rank: 47
Abdelrahman Mahmoud
ATHLETE
2001 - Present
HPI: 0.00
Rank: 49
Imogen Grant
ATHLETE
1996 - Present
HPI: 0.00
Rank: 50
People Deceased in Cambridge
Go to all RankingsStephen Hawking
PHYSICIST
1942 - 2018
HPI: 82.87
Rank: 1
Ernest Rutherford
PHYSICIST
1871 - 1937
HPI: 80.59
Rank: 2
Ludwig Wittgenstein
PHILOSOPHER
1889 - 1951
HPI: 79.53
Rank: 3
James Clerk Maxwell
PHYSICIST
1831 - 1879
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 4
Lise Meitner
PHYSICIST
1878 - 1968
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 5
J. J. Thomson
PHYSICIST
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 6
John Venn
PHILOSOPHER
1834 - 1923
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 7
Alfred Marshall
ECONOMIST
1842 - 1924
HPI: 71.98
Rank: 8
Stefania Turkewich
COMPOSER
1898 - 1977
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 9
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
MATHEMATICIAN
1819 - 1903
HPI: 70.51
Rank: 10
James Chadwick
PHYSICIST
1891 - 1974
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 11
Syd Barrett
MUSICIAN
1946 - 2006
HPI: 69.68
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Cambridge
Go to all RankingsTheodore Hall
PHYSICIST
1925 - 1999
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 68
T. H. Marshall
SOCIOLOGIST
1893 - 1981
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 71
Elsa Brändström
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1888 - 1948
HPI: 50.11
Rank: 83
Jack Goody
ANTHROPOLOGIST
1919 - 2015
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 89
Martin Wagner
ARCHITECT
1885 - 1957
HPI: 48.34
Rank: 94
John H. Coates
MATHEMATICIAN
1945 - 2022
HPI: 45.50
Rank: 111
Ann Bishop
BIOLOGIST
1899 - 1990
HPI: 45.26
Rank: 112
Alan Cottrell
PHYSICIST
1919 - 2012
HPI: 45.12
Rank: 114
W. H. R. Rivers
ANTHROPOLOGIST
1864 - 1922
HPI: 43.46
Rank: 120
Betty Boothroyd
POLITICIAN
1929 - 2023
HPI: 39.56
Rank: 122
Henry Sewell
POLITICIAN
1807 - 1879
HPI: 39.42
Rank: 123
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).
Occupational Trends
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.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 21 globally memorable people born in Cambridge since 1700.