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SALEM
Most Famous People Born in Salem, United States
- Notable people
- 471
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1899
- Most distinctive
- Librarian 14.5×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Salem during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 36 notable births.
What Salem Is Known For
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Politician is Salem's biggest profession — 18% of all notables (84).
Salem over-indexes on librarian — 14.5× the global rate.
Salem under-produces football — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Salem's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Politics & Law
- Sports
- Writing
- Science
- Film & TV
- Military
- Other
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804 - 1864
William Jennings Bryan
1860 - 1925
John Hay
1838 - 1905
John Zerzan
Born 1943
Justin Kirk
Born 1969
Timothy Pickering
1745 - 1829
Bill Laswell
Born 1955
William H. Prescott
1796 - 1859
Gardner Dozois
1947 - 2018
Sparky Anderson
1934 - 2010
Nathaniel Bowditch
1773 - 1838
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Born 1969
Benjamin Peirce
1809 - 1880
Ernest Fenollosa
1853 - 1908
Carmella Bing
Born 1981
Mike Flanagan (director)
Born 1978
Kate Nauta
Born 1982
Paul Douglas
1892 - 1976
Seth Moulton
Born 1978
William Wetmore Story
1819 - 1895
Frank Weston Benson
1862 - 1951
Frederick Townsend Ward
1831 - 1862
Patricia A. McKillip
Born 1948
Thomas A. Watson
1854 - 1934
Alfred Carlton Gilbert
1884 - 1961
John Larch
1914 - 2005
Charles L. McNary
1874 - 1944
Orlando Jordan
Born 1974
Paul Stamets
Born 1955
Jennings Randolph
1902 - 1998
Patrick Carman
Born 1966
Kat Bjelland
Born 1963
Chris Sununu
Born 1974
Cory Schneider
Born 1986
David G. Hartwell
1941 - 2016
Charles W. Bryan
1867 - 1945
John Chowning
Born 1934
Arthur Foote
1853 - 1937
Joe Brainard
1942 - 1994
Sophia Hawthorne
1809 - 1871
Newton Booth
1825 - 1892
Jed Lowrie
Born 1984
George Andrews (mathematician)
Born 1938
John F. Tierney
Born 1951
John Hale (minister)
1636 - 1700
Benjamin Williams Crowninshield
1772 - 1851
Patricia Goldman-Rakic
1937 - 2003
Theodate Pope Riddle
1867 - 1946
Kendra Sunderland
Born 1995
William Crowninshield Endicott
1826 - 1900
Hal Galper
Born 1938
George Cabot
1752 - 1823
Jim Pepper
1941 - 1992
Maria Susanna Cummins
1827 - 1866
Jones Very
1813 - 1880
Jerri Nielsen
1952 - 2009
Charles Grafton Page
1812 - 1868
Robert C. Allen
Born 1947
Samuel McIntire
1757 - 1811
Dolora Zajick
Born 1952
Jacob Hamblin
1819 - 1886
Ryan Allen (American football)
Born 1990
John Allen Campbell
1835 - 1880
Harley M. Kilgore
1893 - 1956
Andy Buckley
Born 1965
Randall Woodfield
Born 1950
Arthur A. Denny
1822 - 1899
Mary Lou Lord
Born 1965
Debbie Armstrong
Born 1963
Benjamin Goodhue
1748 - 1814
Frederick W. Lander
1821 - 1862
Frederic Ward Putnam
1839 - 1915
Benjamin H. Brewster
1816 - 1888
Christopher Cassidy
Born 1970
Norman D. Vaughan
1905 - 2005
Holly Lisle
Born 1960
Robert Seamans
1918 - 2008
Sarah Parker Remond
1826 - 1894
Theophilus Painter
1889 - 1969
Nathaniel Silsbee
1773 - 1850
Al Ruscio
1924 - 2013
Friday (actrice pornographique)
Born 1971
Leonard Stone
1923 - 2011
Joseph Lyman Silsbee
1848 - 1913
Joseph Hodges Choate
1832 - 1917
Robert H. Milroy
1816 - 1890
Fidelia Bridges
1834 - 1923
William J. Hughes
1932 - 2019
Scott Hatteberg
Born 1969
Laurie Faria Stolarz
Born 1972
Zach Sanford
Born 1994
Alice Barber Stephens
1858 - 1932
Kyle Cooper
Born 1962
Jacob Crowninshield
1770 - 1808
Austin Bibens-Dirkx
Born 1985
Kris Slater
Born 1981
Rose Tapley
1881 - 1956
Samuel Colt (Pornodarsteller)
Born 1973
Matt Geiger
Born 1969
William H. Bates
1917 - 1969
Harriet Low
1809 - 1877
Josh Davis (basketball, born 1980)
Born 1980
Elias Hasket Derby
1739 - 1799
Pat Healy (fighter)
Born 1983
Lisa Hammer
Born 1967
William Alexander Parsons Martin
1827 - 1916
Brian St. Pierre
Born 1979
Benjamin Johnson Lang
1837 - 1909
Reid Shelton
1924 - 1997
Dorothy Good
1687 - 1750
Mary Walcott
1675 - 1719
Alexander G. Cattell
1816 - 1894
John Rogers (sculptor)
1829 - 1904
Everett Dean
1898 - 1993
James Henry Emerton
1847 - 1931
John Hathorne
1641 - 1717
Frank Perkins (composer)
1908 - 1988
Stubbins Ffirth
1784 - 1820
Theodore Thurston Geer
1851 - 1924
Kelly LeMieux
Born 1967
Charles Osgood (artist)
1809 - 1890
William Frederick Poole
1821 - 1894
George Donner
1784 - 1847
Endicott Peabody (educator)
1857 - 1944
Stephen C. Phillips
1801 - 1857
Myra Albert Wiggins
1869 - 1956
Marian Babson
Born 1929
Michael J. Harrington
Born 1936
Slats Gill
1901 - 1966
Orchard Cook
1763 - 1819
George J. Bates
1891 - 1949
Richard Rogers Bowker
1848 - 1933
John Pickler
1844 - 1910
Benjamin Pickman Jr.
1763 - 1843
Robert L. Saucy
1930 - 2015
Clifford Coffin (photographer)
1913 - 1972
Gerald Pearson
1905 - 1987
Albin F. Irzyk
1917 - 2018
Frederick M. Davenport
1866 - 1956
Frank Washington Very
1852 - 1927
Richard Joseph Malone
Born 1946
Monique Noel
Born 1967
LeBaron Russell Briggs
1855 - 1934
Forman S. Acton
1920 - 2014
Gayton P. Osgood
1797 - 1861
Stephen Palfrey Webb
1804 - 1879
Jonathan Smith (rower)
Born 1961
Hoyt C. Hottel
1903 - 1998
Will O'Neill
Born 1988
Tyrell Williams
Born 1992
James Hardy Ropes
1866 - 1933
Mary Curtis Verna
1921 - 2009
Abraham J. Hostetler
1818 - 1899
Edward Filene
1860 - 1937
Stephen Higginson
1743 - 1828
John Prentiss Benson
1865 - 1947
Bernard Eastlund
1938 - 2007
Edith Brown Weiss
Born 1942
Mary Warren
1674 - 1693
Henry Ward Poole
1825 - 1890
Rockette Morton
Born 1949
Charles Timothy Brooks
1813 - 1883
Charles W. Vursell
1881 - 1974
George Crowninshield Jr.
1766 - 1817
A. B. Brown
Born 1965
Raymond Knight (radio)
1899 - 1953
Cheyenne Hunter
Born 1964
Mary Abbott (golfer)
1857 - 1904
Stephen Henry Phillips
1823 - 1897
Clement Hall Sinnickson
1834 - 1919
Ephraim Porter Felt
1868 - 1943
Arlene Schnitzer
1929 - 2020
John Lewis Russell
1808 - 1873
George Swinnerton Parker
1866 - 1952
Thomas Jones Yorke
1801 - 1882
John Glover (general)
1732 - 1797
Peter K. Manning
Born 1940
John Rock (abolitionist)
1825 - 1866
Eric M. Hammel
1946 - 2020
Charlotte Fullerton
Born 1949
Isaac Ambrose Barber
1852 - 1909
James Yancy Callahan
1852 - 1935
Katie King-Crowley
Born 1975
John Pickering (linguiste)
1777 - 1846
Robert Bayley Osgood
1873 - 1956
Henry T. Ellett
1812 - 1887
Bruce Jacobi
1935 - 1987
Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
1808 - 1892
Timothy Bedel
1737 - 1787
Hedge Thompson
1780 - 1828
Charles H. Upton
1812 - 1877
Thomas Trueblood
1856 - 1951
David Lynn Jones
Born 1950
Royal Harwood Frost
1879 - 1950
Robert Gibbon Johnson
1771 - 1850
Thomas Jackson Rodman
1816 - 1871
Abiel Abbot Low
1811 - 1893
Thomas A. Bartlett
Born 1930
Walter Sherman Gifford
1885 - 1966
Charles Lenox Remond
1810 - 1873
Thomas Sinnickson (politician)
1786 - 1873
James E. West (politician)
1951 - 2006
Thelma Payne
1896 - 1988
George Hires
1835 - 1911
Lotus Coffman
1875 - 1938
Robert Morris (lawyer)
1823 - 1882
Jess Marlow
1929 - 2014
Brooks Ashmanskas
Born 1969
Cheryl Cohen-Greene
Born 1944
Edward Alan Knapp
1932 - 2009
Gordon Russell (writer)
1929 - 1981
Michael Totten
Born 1970
Nehemiah Adams
1806 - 1878
Lydell Mitchell
Born 1949
William L. Sullivan (author)
Born 1953
David H. Jonassen
1947 - 2012
Allen Weh
Born 1942
Francis W. Moore Jr.
1808 - 1864
John C. Martin (politician)
1880 - 1952
Ann Aiken
Born 1951
Winslow Upton
1853 - 1914
Luis F. Emilio
1844 - 1918
Dan Crippen
Born 1952
Monroe Sweetland
1910 - 2006
Cornelia Hancock
1839 - 1926
Mercedes Rose
Born 1972
Raymond E. Fowler
Born 1933
Dustin Watchman
Born 1979
David Qualey
Born 1947
Marsha J. Pechman
Born 1951
Ben Petrick
Born 1977
Louis Sebastian Walsh
1858 - 1924
Benjamin Pitman (Hawaii)
1815 - 1888
David Smith (sailor)
1925 - 2014
Michael Walter (American football)
Born 1960
Stephen Sewall
1702 - 1760
Max Sherman
Born 1935
Ralph Barnes (journalist)
1899 - 1940
Bill Swancutt
Born 1982
Theodore C. Speliotis
Born 1953
John Bertram Peterson
1871 - 1944
Mellen Woodman Haskell
1863 - 1948
Jason Candle
Born 1979
Rob Oppenheim
Born 1980
Samuel Phillips (reverend)
1690 - 1771
Alfred Horatio Belo
1839 - 1901
John Griscom
1774 - 1852
Terry Isaac
1958 - 2019
Edgar D. Bush
1873 - 1949
Shannon Bolin
1917 - 2016
Joseph Horace Eaton
1815 - 1896
John Schuhmacher
Born 1955
Artosis
Born 1983
Raymond Lee Newcomb
1849 - 1918
Brett Smith
Born 1992
Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr.
1790 - 1861
Avry Holmes
Born 1994
Harry Stone Mosher
1915 - 2002
Patrick Kennedy (swimmer)
Born 1964
Chuck Morse
Born 1960
Barclay Coppock
1839 - 1861
John B. Waldo
1844 - 1907
Charles C. Williamson
1877 - 1965
Sheila Harrington
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Margaret Fritsch
1899 - 1993
Porter Peter Lowry
Born 1956
William Gardner Choate
1830 - 1920
Fred Girod
Born 1951
Dan Schmidt
Born 1954
Edward Bozek
Born 1950
Jeff Juden
Born 1971
Horace Phillips (baseball)
1853 - 1896
Jonathan M. Sewall
1748 - 1808
Kory Casto
Born 1981
Michael Kuebler
Born 1982
D.J. Bettencourt
Born 1984
James McDonald Chaney
1831 - 1909
Kim Driscoll
Born 1966
Nina Romano
1901 - 1966
Frances Raymond
1869 - 1961
Elmer Jacobs
1892 - 1958
Michael Clark (wide receiver)
Born 1995
Brad Pennington
Born 1969
Chalkley Beeson
1848 - 1912
Sam Willaman
1891 - 1935
William H. Osborn
1821 - 1894
Zollie Volchok
1916 - 2012
Peter R. Dolan
Born 1956
Edward Trenchard
1785 - 1824
Faryion Wardrip
Born 1959
Duke Esper
1868 - 1910
Daniel C. Eddy
1823 - 1896
John Dubrow
Born 1958
Deanna B. Marcum
Born 1946
William G. Kline
1882 - 1942
Joey Wong (baseball)
Born 1988
Emil Alexander de Schweinitz
1866 - 1904
Morrie Steevens
Born 1940
Ed Westfall (American football)
1909 - 1968
Beri Smither
Born 1971