Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of Cambridge, England, the town where its founding fathers had studied (at Cambridge University). Cambridge is most famous for the two prominent universities that call it home: Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 101,355, though even more people commute into Cambridge to work.

Famous people associated with Cambridge

• Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand
• Ben Affleck
• Louis Agassiz
• Julia Child
• Matt Damon
• Doc Edgerton
• Charles Eliot
• Charles William Eliot
• Patrick Ewing
• Richard P. Feynman
• John Kenneth Galbraith
• Louise Glück
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Henry James
• William James
• Henry Kissinger
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• James Russell Lowell
• Yo-Yo Ma
• Charles Eliot Norton
• Tip O'Neill
• Frederick Hastings Rindge
• Rumeal Robinson
• Patrick Stewart
• Sam Waterston
• Norbert Wiener
• Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth
• E. E. Cummings