Dorchester, Boston
Dorchester, Boston ranks 1,845th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sint-Truiden, Emden, and Rawalpindi. Memorable people born in Dorchester, Boston include George Phillips Bond, Childe Hassam, and James B. Conant. Dorchester, Boston has been the birth place of many actors, and astronomers. Dorchester, Boston is located in United States.
Dorchester is a neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km2) in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This dissolved municipality, Boston's largest neighborhood by far, is often divided by city planners in order to create two planning areas roughly equivalent in size and population to other Boston neighborhoods. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1794 and 1995, Dorchester, Boston was the birth place of 8 globally memorable people, including George Phillips Bond, Childe Hassam, and James B. Conant.
People Born in Dorchester, Boston
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George Phillips Bond
ASTRONOMER
1825 - 1865
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 1
Childe Hassam
PAINTER
1859 - 1935
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 2
James B. Conant
CHEMIST
1893 - 1978
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 3
Neal McDonough
ACTOR
1966 - Present
HPI: 48.83
Rank: 4
Edward Everett
POLITICIAN
1794 - 1865
HPI: 47.97
Rank: 5
Kevin Chapman
ACTOR
1962 - Present
HPI: 44.10
Rank: 6
John Wright
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1909 - 1979
HPI: 40.68
Rank: 7
Ayo Edebiri
ACTOR
1995 - Present
HPI: 35.42
Rank: 8
Newly Added People Born in Dorchester, Boston
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Most individuals born in present day Dorchester, Boston were actors (3), astronomers (1), painters (1), chemists (1), and politicians (1), while most who died were .
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Dorchester, Boston, including Neal McDonough, Kevin Chapman, and Ayo Edebiri. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Dorchester, Boston, including Neal McDonough, Kevin Chapman, and Ayo Edebiri.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 5 globally memorable people born in Dorchester, Boston since 1700.
