Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland ranks 1,178th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Baden-Baden, Gangneung, and Royal Alcázar of Madrid. Memorable people born in Silver Spring, Maryland include Nora Roberts, Rian Johnson, and Michael Ealy. Memorable people who died in Silver Spring, Maryland include Rachel Carson, Bruno Bettelheim, and George Adamski. Silver Spring, Maryland has been the birth place of many actors and basketball players and the death place of many writers and biologists. Silver Spring, Maryland is located in United States.
Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, it is an edge city with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census, making it the fifth-most populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Germantown, and Waldorf. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1950 and 1995, Silver Spring, Maryland was the birth place of 11 globally memorable people, including Nora Roberts, Rian Johnson, and Michael Ealy. Additionaly, 9 globally memorable people have passed away in Silver Spring, Maryland including Rachel Carson, Bruno Bettelheim, and George Adamski.
People Born in Silver Spring, Maryland
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Nora Roberts
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1
Rian Johnson
1973 - Present
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 2
Michael Ealy
1973 - Present
HPI: 40.01
Rank: 3
Kate Siegel
1982 - Present
HPI: 38.29
Rank: 4
Lisa Ann Walter
1963 - Present
HPI: 36.34
Rank: 5
Bill Callahan
1966 - Present
HPI: 32.78
Rank: 6
Rebecca Sugar
1987 - Present
HPI: 32.22
Rank: 7
Dan Futterman
1967 - Present
HPI: 31.82
Rank: 8
Victor Oladipo
1992 - Present
HPI: 30.86
Rank: 9
Jerian Grant
1992 - Present
HPI: 27.89
Rank: 10
Josh Hart
1995 - Present
HPI: 19.94
Rank: 11
Newly Added People Born in Silver Spring, Maryland
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Rachel Carson
1907 - 1964
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 1
Bruno Bettelheim
1903 - 1990
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 2
George Adamski
1891 - 1965
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 3
Katherine Anne Porter
1890 - 1980
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 4
Mary Harris Jones
1837 - 1930
HPI: 49.36
Rank: 5
Jean E. Sammet
1928 - 2017
HPI: 42.41
Rank: 6
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
1925 - 1983
HPI: 41.75
Rank: 7
Evelyn Boyd Granville
1924 - 2023
HPI: 37.74
Rank: 8
Jim "Bad News" Barnes
1941 - 2002
HPI: 36.56
Rank: 9
Newly Added People Deceased in Silver Spring, Maryland
Go to all RankingsMost individuals born in present day Silver Spring, Maryland were actors (4), basketball players (3), writers (1), film directors (1), and musicians (1), while most who died were writers (2), biologists (1), psychologists (1), social activists (1), and computer scientists (1).
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Silver Spring, Maryland, including Michael Ealy, Kate Siegel, and Lisa Ann Walter. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Silver Spring, Maryland, including Michael Ealy, Kate Siegel, and Lisa Ann Walter.
