notable residents
Distinguished local dwellers
Notable residents is a standard section heading in encyclopedic articles about places, listing famous or significant people who have lived there.
The phrase appears almost exclusively in this formulaic context—Wikipedia articles, city guides, real estate descriptions: The town's notable residents include two governors and a Nobel laureate.
- Abraham LincolnCivil War era leader
- Albert EinsteinRenowned twentieth-century physicist
- Barack ObamaForty-fourth US president
- town historyRecord of community's past
- Leonardo da VinciItalian artist-scientist-engineer
Ada Lovelace · Alan Turing · Frida Kahlo · Angela Merkel · Mahatma Gandhi · Cesar Chavez · George Washington · Harriet Tubman · Malala Yousafzai · Marie Curie · Isaac Newton · Maya Angelou · Cleopatra · Nikola Tesla · William Shakespeare · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Margaret Thatcher · celebrities
notable residentseveryday people
Average, unremarkable citizens
common people · common folk · rank and file · nobodies · regular folk
notable residentstransients
Temporary occupants or travelers
visitors · tourists · drifters · itinerants · passersby