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Boston ranks 23rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Copenhagen, Barcelona, and Milan. Memorable people born in Boston include Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin Franklin, and Louis Sullivan. Memorable people who died in Boston include Anthony Quinn, Robert Frost, and Walter Gropius. 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 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 larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest in New England and the eleventh-largest in the country. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1649 and 2002, Boston was the birth place of 292 globally memorable people, including Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin Franklin, and Louis Sullivan. Additionaly, 111 globally memorable people have passed away in Boston including Anthony Quinn, Robert Frost, and Walter Gropius.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Boston were actors (86), politicians (30), writers (23), athletes (14), and musicians (11),  while most who died were writers (18), politicians (14), philosophers (6), social activists (6), and physicists (5).

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.