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 Charles Sanders Peirce, Percy Williams Bridgman, and Matt Damon. Memorable people who died in Cambridge, Massachusetts include Roman Jakobson, Thomas Kuhn, and Emily Greene Balch. 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 Charles Sanders Peirce, Percy Williams Bridgman, and Matt Damon. Additionaly, 98 globally memorable people have passed away in Cambridge, Massachusetts including Roman Jakobson, Thomas Kuhn, and Emily Greene Balch. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Cambridge, Massachusetts than were born there.
People Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Go to all RankingsCharles Sanders Peirce
MATHEMATICIAN
1839 - 1914
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 1
Percy Williams Bridgman
PHYSICIST
1882 - 1961
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 2
Matt Damon
ACTOR
1970 - Present
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 3
Douglass North
ECONOMIST
1920 - 2015
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 4
Paul Michael Glaser
ACTOR
1943 - Present
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 5
Leroy Anderson
COMPOSER
1908 - 1975
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 6
E. E. Cummings
WRITER
1894 - 1962
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 7
Lloyd Shapley
MATHEMATICIAN
1923 - 2016
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 8
Sam Waterston
ACTOR
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 9
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
WRITER
1809 - 1894
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 10
Anne McCaffrey
WRITER
1926 - 2011
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 11
Helen B. Taussig
PHYSICIAN
1898 - 1986
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Go to all RankingsEleanor Hallowell Abbott
WRITER
1872 - 1958
HPI: 42.56
Rank: 25
Anna Hyatt Huntington
SCULPTOR
1876 - 1973
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 27
Irving Small
HOCKEY PLAYER
1891 - 1955
HPI: 39.72
Rank: 32
David Ignatius
WRITER
1950 - Present
HPI: 37.62
Rank: 34
Sian Heder
FILM DIRECTOR
1977 - Present
HPI: 35.25
Rank: 38
People Deceased in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Go to all RankingsRoman Jakobson
LINGUIST
1896 - 1982
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 1
Thomas Kuhn
HISTORIAN
1922 - 1996
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 2
Emily Greene Balch
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1867 - 1961
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 3
B. F. Skinner
PSYCHOLOGIST
1904 - 1990
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 4
Louise Glück
WRITER
1943 - 2023
HPI: 69.18
Rank: 5
Simon Kuznets
ECONOMIST
1901 - 1985
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 6
Alfred North Whitehead
MATHEMATICIAN
1861 - 1947
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 7
Benoit Mandelbrot
MATHEMATICIAN
1924 - 2010
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 8
Gordon Allport
PSYCHOLOGIST
1897 - 1967
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 9
Theodore William Richards
CHEMIST
1868 - 1928
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 10
Edward Bernays
WRITER
1891 - 1995
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 11
Carl Ferdinand Cori
CHEMIST
1896 - 1984
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Go to all RankingsPhilip Morrison
PHYSICIST
1915 - 2005
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 40
Karl Deutsch
POLITICAL SCIENTIST
1912 - 1992
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 54
James L. Peters
BIOLOGIST
1889 - 1952
HPI: 48.01
Rank: 73
Paul Mattick
WRITER
1904 - 1981
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 75
Sidney Verba
POLITICAL SCIENTIST
1932 - 2019
HPI: 46.42
Rank: 76
Charles Homer Haskins
HISTORIAN
1870 - 1937
HPI: 46.27
Rank: 77
H. A. Rey
WRITER
1898 - 1977
HPI: 45.41
Rank: 79
David Marr
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1945 - 1980
HPI: 44.93
Rank: 84
Ralph Barton Perry
PHILOSOPHER
1876 - 1957
HPI: 44.18
Rank: 85
Tilly Edinger
BIOLOGIST
1897 - 1967
HPI: 42.71
Rank: 90
Roscoe Pound
LAWYER
1870 - 1964
HPI: 42.64
Rank: 91
Einar Haugen
LINGUIST
1906 - 1994
HPI: 41.21
Rank: 93
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Cambridge, Massachusetts were actors (11), writers (10), politicians (3), comedians (3), and mathematicians (2), while most who died were physicists (12), 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, Paul Michael Glaser, and Sam Waterston. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Cambridge, Massachusetts, including Matt Damon, Paul Michael Glaser, and Sam Waterston.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 24 globally memorable people born in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 1700.