40.3596° N, 82.2875° W
SPRINGFIELD
Most Famous People Born in Springfield, United States
- Notable people
- 936
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1933
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 9.5×
There are several Springfields in this dataset and they blur together statistically, which is the point - the 9.5× Baseball over-index is small-town America's pre-television obsession crystallized, the era when every Midwestern Springfield fielded a semi-pro team and a few of those kids made the Cardinals or Reds. The 2.6× Lawyer ratio is the Lincoln-era Springfield, IL signal still echoing through the data.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Springfield during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 90 notable births.
What Springfield Is Known For
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Politician is Springfield's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (124).
Springfield over-indexes on baseball — 9.5× the global rate.
Springfield under-produces football — only 0.7× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Springfield's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Music
- Writing
- Science
- Other
- Filtered to 1840s Clear ×
Robert Todd Lincoln
1843 - 1926
Arthur MacArthur Jr.
1845 - 1912
Edward Baker Lincoln
1846 - 1850
Thornton Chase
1847 - 1912
Dudley C. Haskell
1842 - 1883
Charles Jacobus
1840 - 1922
Ernst Becker (Astronom)
1843 - 1912
James Richard Waddill
1842 - 1917
Mary Plummer
1848 - 1922
Carolyn Wilson Harris
1849 - 1910
John Wesley Warrington
1844 - 1921
Walter Trumbull
1846 - 1891
Eugene W. Ferris
1841 - 1907
Andrew S. Bryant
1841 - 1931