One city, and a birth-certificate list that runs from the Revolution straight through to Marvel.
1Benjamin FranklinBorn on Milk Street in 1706, apprenticed to his brother's print shop, and gone to Philadelphia by seventeen.
2John F. KennedyBorn in Brookline on the city's edge, the 35th President and the youngest elected.
3Edgar Allan PoeBorn in Boston in 1809 and the inventor of the detective story.
4Ralph Waldo EmersonBoston-born essayist whose Transcendentalism shaped American thought.
5Samuel AdamsBoston-born organiser of the resistance that became the Revolution.
6Matt DamonCambridge-raised actor who wrote Good Will Hunting about his own city.
7Leonard NimoyWest End boy who became Spock and directed some of the best Star Trek films.
8Donna SummerDorchester-born singer who defined disco and won five Grammys.
9Chris EvansSudbury-raised actor who played Captain America for a decade.
10Bobby OrrNot born there, but the Bruins defenceman who redefined the position and won two Cups in Boston.
11New Kids on the BlockDorchester boy band that sold 80 million records and invented the modern boy band template.
12Ben AffleckCambridge-raised actor and director, and the other half of Good Will Hunting.
13John Singleton CopleyBoston-born painter who portrayed the revolutionary generation before leaving for London.
14Conan O'BrienBrookline-born writer for The Simpsons who then hosted late night for nearly thirty years.
Comments 1
Born on Milk Street in 1706 and gone by seventeen, Franklin shares this list with Poe, Kennedy and a run of actors from Matt Damon to Chris Evans: https://youpick.best/articles/benjamin-franklin-ranked-many-ways
YP
ypb-teamAug 21
