Manhattan
Manhattan ranks 56th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bucharest, Houston, and Glasgow. Memorable people born in Manhattan include Al Pacino, Stan Lee, and William James Sidis. Memorable people who died in Manhattan include Richard Nixon, Malcolm X, and Ayn Rand. Manhattan has been the birth place of many actors, and writers and the death place of many actors, and writers. Manhattan is located in United States.
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by geographical area in the U.S. state of New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan constitutes the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's economic and administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 0 and 2006, Manhattan was the birth place of 166 globally memorable people, including Al Pacino, Stan Lee, and William James Sidis. Additionaly, 197 globally memorable people have passed away in Manhattan including Richard Nixon, Malcolm X, and Ayn Rand. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Manhattan than were born there.
People Born in Manhattan
Go to all RankingsAl Pacino
ACTOR
1940 - Present
HPI: 80.49
Rank: 1
Stan Lee
COMIC ARTIST
1922 - 2018
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 2
William James Sidis
LINGUIST
1898 - 1944
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 3
Sigourney Weaver
ACTOR
1949 - Present
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 4
Roy Lichtenstein
ARTIST
1923 - 1997
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 5
Nancy Reagan
ACTOR
1921 - 2016
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 6
Ron Perlman
ACTOR
1950 - Present
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 7
Robert Downey Jr.
ACTOR
1965 - Present
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 8
Murray Gell-Mann
PHYSICIST
1929 - 2019
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 9
Barbara Bush
POLITICIAN
1925 - 2018
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 10
Melanie Griffith
ACTOR
1957 - Present
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 11
Éamon de Valera
POLITICIAN
1882 - 1975
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Manhattan
Go to all RankingsGianni Russo
ACTOR
1943 - Present
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 51
Frank H. Netter
PHYSICIAN
1906 - 1991
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 57
Jess McMahon
CELEBRITY
1882 - 1954
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 72
Consuelo Vanderbilt
CELEBRITY
1877 - 1964
HPI: 47.55
Rank: 73
Al Lewis
ACTOR
1923 - 2006
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 77
Paul Stewart
ACTOR
1908 - 1986
HPI: 42.60
Rank: 111
BarBara Luna
ACTOR
1939 - Present
HPI: 40.27
Rank: 123
Peter Yarrow
SINGER
1938 - Present
HPI: 39.36
Rank: 129
Barbara Jo Allen
ACTOR
1906 - 1974
HPI: 38.39
Rank: 135
Robert Anderson
WRITER
1917 - 2009
HPI: 35.83
Rank: 143
Anthony Gatto
ATHLETE
1973 - Present
HPI: 28.63
Rank: 156
Alexie Gilmore
ACTOR
1976 - Present
HPI: 25.18
Rank: 160
People Deceased in Manhattan
Go to all RankingsRichard Nixon
POLITICIAN
1913 - 1994
HPI: 88.62
Rank: 1
Malcolm X
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1925 - 1965
HPI: 83.10
Rank: 2
Ayn Rand
WRITER
1905 - 1982
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 3
Isaac Asimov
WRITER
1920 - 1992
HPI: 78.18
Rank: 4
David Bowie
SINGER
1947 - 2016
HPI: 75.99
Rank: 5
Virginia Apgar
PHYSICIAN
1909 - 1974
HPI: 68.45
Rank: 6
Isidor Isaac Rabi
PHYSICIST
1898 - 1988
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 7
Edward Hopper
PAINTER
1882 - 1967
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 8
Lauren Bacall
ACTOR
1924 - 2014
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 9
Roy Lichtenstein
ARTIST
1923 - 1997
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 10
I. M. Pei
ARCHITECT
1917 - 2019
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 11
Jerome Bruner
PSYCHOLOGIST
1915 - 2016
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Manhattan
Go to all RankingsVictor Kravchenko
POLITICIAN
1905 - 1966
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 63
Marshall Berman
PHILOSOPHER
1940 - 2013
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 117
William Henry Vanderbilt
BUSINESSPERSON
1821 - 1885
HPI: 47.52
Rank: 120
Alena Vrzáňová
SKATER
1931 - 2015
HPI: 46.24
Rank: 131
Ned Rorem
COMPOSER
1923 - 2022
HPI: 44.42
Rank: 145
Walter Abish
WRITER
1931 - 2022
HPI: 44.40
Rank: 146
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1861 - 1884
HPI: 44.14
Rank: 148
Walter Lord
WRITER
1917 - 2002
HPI: 44.11
Rank: 149
George Washington Goethals
POLITICIAN
1858 - 1928
HPI: 43.94
Rank: 151
Clarence Birdseye
INVENTOR
1886 - 1956
HPI: 40.89
Rank: 170
Mason Adams
ACTOR
1919 - 2005
HPI: 40.34
Rank: 175
Anton Coppola
CONDUCTOR
1917 - 2020
HPI: 38.55
Rank: 186
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Manhattan were actors (84), writers (12), politicians (8), composers (8), and musicians (6), while most who died were actors (50), writers (28), politicians (14), musicians (14), and businesspeople (11).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Manhattan, including Al Pacino, Sigourney Weaver, and Ron Perlman. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Manhattan, including Al Pacino, Sigourney Weaver, and Nancy Reagan.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Manhattan since 1700.