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
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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 1850s Clear ×
Tad Lincoln
1853 - 1871
William Wallace Lincoln
1850 - 1862
Frank Myers Boggs
1855 - 1926
Elizabeth Williams Champney
1850 - 1922
Joseph E. Washington
1851 - 1915
Lloyd Wheaton Bowers
1859 - 1910
C. W. Post
1854 - 1914
John N. Tillman
1859 - 1929
William Allen Rogers
1854 - 1931
David Ward King
1857 - 1920
Cyclone Miller
1859 - 1913
Charles Axtell
1859 - 1932
Helen J. Stewart
1854 - 1926
Thomas Daniel Beaven
1851 - 1920
Kate Upson Clark
1851 - 1935
Sam Crane (second baseman)
1854 - 1925
James G. Johnson
1855 - 1936
Henry C. Courtney
1856 - 1887
William Barret Ridgely
1858 - 1920
Lou Sylvester
1855 - 1936
Charles Caldwell McChord
1859 - 1937
Nella Brown Pond
1858 - 1893