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Freetown (sle)

Sierra Leone

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Freetown ranks 1,916th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Schaffhausen, Slavonski Brod, and Meaux. Memorable people born in Freetown include Trevoh Chalobah, Valentine Strasser, and Roda Antar. Memorable people who died in Freetown include Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Foday Sankoh, and Siaka Stevens. Freetown has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Freetown is located in Sierra Leone.

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political centre, as it is the seat of the Government of Sierra Leone. The population of Freetown was 1,347,559 as of the 2024 census. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1967 and 2001, Freetown was the birth place of 9 globally memorable people, including Trevoh Chalobah, Valentine Strasser, and Roda Antar. Additionaly, 6 globally memorable people have passed away in Freetown including Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Foday Sankoh, and Siaka Stevens.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Freetown were soccer players (6), athletes (2), and politicians (1),  while most who died were politicians (4), writers (1), and social activists (1).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Freetown, including Trevoh Chalobah, Roda Antar, and Rodney Strasser. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Freetown, including Trevoh Chalobah, Roda Antar, and Rodney Strasser.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 0 globally memorable people born in Freetown since 1700.