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Bridgeport, Connecticut ranks 632nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Pavia, California, and Arezzo. Memorable people born in Bridgeport, Connecticut include Robert Mitchum, Brian Dennehy, and Wilbur Scoville. Memorable people who died in Bridgeport, Connecticut include P. T. Barnum, Jason Robards, and Ida Tarbell. Bridgeport, Connecticut has been the birth place of many actors and physicists and the death place of many businesspeople and writers. Bridgeport, Connecticut is located in United States.

Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut and the fifth-most populous city in New England, with a population of 148,654 in 2020. Located in eastern Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnock River on Long Island Sound, it is a port city 60 miles (97 km) from Manhattan and 40 miles (64 km) from The Bronx. It borders the towns of Trumbull to the north, Fairfield to the west, and Stratford to the east. Bridgeport and other towns in Fairfield County make up the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, as well as the Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk–Danbury metropolitan statistical area, the second largest metropolitan area in Connecticut. The Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk–Danbury metropolis forms part of the New York metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia

Between 1865 and 1988, Bridgeport, Connecticut was the birth place of 19 globally memorable people, including Robert Mitchum, Brian Dennehy, and Wilbur Scoville. Additionaly, 6 globally memorable people have passed away in Bridgeport, Connecticut including P. T. Barnum, Jason Robards, and Ida Tarbell.

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Most individuals born in present day Bridgeport, Connecticut were actors (8), physicists (2), musicians (2), writers (2), and biologists (1),  while most who died were businesspeople (2), writers (2), actors (1), and engineers (1).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, including Brian Dennehy, Tony Musante, and Richard Belzer. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Bridgeport, Connecticut, including Robert Mitchum, Brian Dennehy, and Tony Musante.

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 12 globally memorable people born in Bridgeport, Connecticut since 1700.