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Ithaca, New York ranks 1,910th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kairouan, Mytilene, and Smolensk Governorate. Memorable people born in Ithaca, New York include Alex Haley, David Foster Wallace, and Margaret Geller. Memorable people who died in Ithaca, New York include Hans Bethe, Peter Debye, and Robert Coleman Richardson. Ithaca, New York has been the birth place of many writers, and astronomers and the death place of many physicists, and psychologists. Ithaca, New York is located in United States.

Ithaca is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named after the Greek island of Ithaca. As of 2020, the city's population was 32,108. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1921 and 1991, Ithaca, New York was the birth place of 8 globally memorable people, including Alex Haley, David Foster Wallace, and Margaret Geller. Additionaly, 21 globally memorable people have passed away in Ithaca, New York including Hans Bethe, Peter Debye, and Robert Coleman Richardson. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Ithaca, New York than were born there.

People Born in Ithaca, New York

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Ithaca, New York were writers (2), astronomers (1), businesspeople (1), actors (1), and wrestlers (1),  while most who died were physicists (6), psychologists (5), biologists (2), astronomers (2), and writers (2).

Over the past 100 years, writers have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Ithaca, New York, including David Foster Wallace. Whereas, throughout history, writers have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Ithaca, New York, including Alex Haley, and David Foster Wallace.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 2 globally memorable people born in Ithaca, New York since 1700.