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Present Day

Leeds (gbr)

United Kingdom

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Leeds ranks 226th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kassel, Königsberg, and Omaha, Nebraska. Memorable people born in Leeds include Peter O'Toole, Tom Wilkinson, and Christopher Tolkien. Memorable people who died in Leeds include Zygmunt Bauman, John Atkinson Grimshaw, and Norman Hunter. Leeds has been the birth place of many actors, and soccer players and the death place of many soccer players, and philosophers. Leeds is located in United Kingdom.

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production and trading centre in the 17th and 18th centuries. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 2001, Leeds was the birth place of 60 globally memorable people, including Peter O'Toole, Tom Wilkinson, and Christopher Tolkien. Additionaly, 10 globally memorable people have passed away in Leeds including Zygmunt Bauman, John Atkinson Grimshaw, and Norman Hunter.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Leeds were actors (14), soccer players (11), athletes (8), musicians (4), and writers (3),  while most who died were soccer players (5), philosophers (1), painters (1), physicists (1), and extremists (1).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Leeds, including Peter O'Toole, Tom Wilkinson, and Bob Peck. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Leeds, including Peter O'Toole, Tom Wilkinson, and Bob Peck.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 19 globally memorable people born in Leeds since 1700.