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Cleveland ranks 76th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Helsinki, Tehran, and Santiago. Memorable people born in Cleveland include Ronald Wayne, Henry Mancini, and Donald A. Glaser. Memorable people who died in Cleveland include Heydar Aliyev, Antanas Smetona, and Frederick Chapman Robbins. Cleveland has been the birth place of many actors and writers and the death place of many politicians and athletes. Cleveland is located in United States.

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in Northeast Ohio along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the U.S. maritime border with Canada and lies approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of Pennsylvania. Cleveland ranks as the most populous city on Lake Erie, the second-most populous city in Ohio, and the 54th-most populous city in the U.S. with a 2020 population of 372,624. The city anchors the Cleveland metropolitan area, the 33rd-largest in the U.S. at 2.18 million residents, as well as the larger Cleveland–Akron–Canton combined statistical area, the most populous in Ohio and the 17th-largest in the country with a population of 3.63 million in 2020. Read more on Wikipedia

Between 1857 and 2001, Cleveland was the birth place of 122 globally memorable people, including Ronald Wayne, Henry Mancini, and Donald A. Glaser. Additionaly, 22 globally memorable people have passed away in Cleveland including Heydar Aliyev, Antanas Smetona, and Frederick Chapman Robbins.

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Most individuals born in present day Cleveland were actors (30), writers (10), astronauts (8), musicians (8), and singers (7),  while most who died were politicians (8), athletes (4), soccer players (2), physicians (1), and conductors (1).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Cleveland, including Halle Berry, Hal Holbrook, and Fred Willard. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Cleveland, including Burgess Meredith, Halle Berry, and Hal Holbrook.

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