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Cambridge, Massachusetts ranks 318th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Antioch, Toledo, Ohio, and Panama City. The most famous people from Cambridge, Massachusetts are Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.. The most famous people who died in Cambridge, Massachusetts are Emily Greene Balch, Thomas Kuhn, and Roman Jakobson. Cambridge, Massachusetts has been the birth place of many writers, and actors 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 0 and 1979, Cambridge, Massachusetts was the birth place of 42 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

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Cambridge, Massachusetts were writers (11), actors (11), comedians (3), politicians (3), and mathematicians (2),  while most who died were physicists (13), writers (10), astronomers (10), mathematicians (8), and philosophers (7).

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, writers have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Cambridge, Massachusetts, including Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Richard Henry Dana Jr., and E. E. Cummings.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 24 globally memorable people born in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 1700.