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Bangkok ranks 265th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sendai, Austria-Hungary, and Leiden. Memorable people born in Bangkok include Prajadhipok, Emmanuelle Arsan, and Sunanda Kumariratana. Memorable people who died in Bangkok include David Carradine, Prem Tinsulanonda, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Bangkok has been the birth place of many politicians and singers and the death place of many politicians and writers. Bangkok is located in Thailand.

Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 10.539 million as of 2020, 15.3 per cent of the country's population. Over 14 million people lived within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region at the 2010 census, making Bangkok an extreme primate city, dwarfing Thailand's other urban centres in both size and importance to the national economy. Read more on Wikipedia

Between 1860 and 1997, Bangkok was the birth place of 42 globally memorable people, including Prajadhipok, Emmanuelle Arsan, and Sunanda Kumariratana. Additionaly, 24 globally memorable people have passed away in Bangkok including David Carradine, Prem Tinsulanonda, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.

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Most individuals born in present day Bangkok were politicians (16), singers (8), tennis players (3), companions (2), and celebrities (2),  while most who died were politicians (14), writers (2), singers (2), actors (1), and businesspeople (1).

Over the past 100 years, politicians have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Bangkok, including Samak Sundaravej, Thanin Kraivichien, and Anand Panyarachun. Whereas, throughout history, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Bangkok, including Prajadhipok, Sarit Thanarat, and Samak Sundaravej.

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 13 globally memorable people born in Bangkok since 1700.