Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan ranks 652nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Amritsar, Barranquilla, and Niš. Memorable people born in Grand Rapids, Michigan include Floyd Mayweather Jr., Anthony Kiedis, and Paul Schrader. Grand Rapids, Michigan has been the birth place of many actors and astronauts. Grand Rapids, Michigan is located in United States.
Grand Rapids is a city and county seat of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,893, making it the second-largest city in Michigan, after Detroit. Grand Rapids is the central city of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,087,592 and a combined statistical area population of 1,383,918. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1873 and 1997, Grand Rapids, Michigan was the birth place of 19 globally memorable people, including Floyd Mayweather Jr., Anthony Kiedis, and Paul Schrader.
People Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.
1977 - Present
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 1
Anthony Kiedis
1962 - Present
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 2
Paul Schrader
1946 - Present
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 3
Roger B. Chaffee
1935 - 1967
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 4
Elizabeth Wilson
1921 - 2015
HPI: 50.88
Rank: 5
Dennis Frederiksen
1951 - 2014
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 6
Taylor Lautner
1992 - Present
HPI: 49.62
Rank: 7
Jack Lousma
1936 - Present
HPI: 46.50
Rank: 8
Edmund Szoka
1927 - 2014
HPI: 46.35
Rank: 9
Richard DeVos
1926 - 2018
HPI: 44.30
Rank: 10
Harry Spanjer
1873 - 1958
HPI: 43.40
Rank: 11
Eric Allan Kramer
1962 - Present
HPI: 39.91
Rank: 12
Most individuals born in present day Grand Rapids, Michigan were actors (4), astronauts (3), boxers (2), singers (2), and basketball players (2), while most who died were .
Over the past 100 years, astronauts have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, including Roger B. Chaffee, Jack Lousma, and Christina Koch. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Grand Rapids, Michigan, including Elizabeth Wilson, Taylor Lautner, and Eric Allan Kramer.
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 6 globally memorable people born in Grand Rapids, Michigan since 1700.
