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Boston ranks 25th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Prague, Rio de Janeiro, and Montevideo. Memorable people born in Boston include Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin Franklin, and Louis Sullivan. Memorable people who died in Boston include Robert Frost, Walter Gropius, and Anthony Quinn. Boston has been the birth place of many actors and politicians and the death place of many writers and politicians. Boston is located in United States.

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeast after New York City and Philadelphia. The Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area, including and surrounding the city, is the largest in New England and eleventh-largest in the country. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1649 and 1998, Boston was the birth place of 248 globally memorable people, including Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin Franklin, and Louis Sullivan. Additionaly, 97 globally memorable people have passed away in Boston including Robert Frost, Walter Gropius, and Anthony Quinn.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Boston were actors (75), politicians (28), writers (20), musicians (10), and athletes (9),  while most who died were writers (17), politicians (15), philosophers (6), physicists (5), and social activists (4).

Occupational Trends

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Boston, including Leonard Nimoy, Edward Norton, and Mark Wahlberg. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Boston, including Leonard Nimoy, Edward Norton, and Mark Wahlberg.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Boston since 1700.

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