Milwaukee
Milwaukee ranks 124th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Seville, Odessa, and Santa Monica, California. Memorable people born in Milwaukee include Spencer Tracy, Herbert A. Simon, and Donald Knuth. Memorable people who died in Milwaukee include Christopher Latham Sholes, Arthur MacArthur Jr., and John D. MacDonald. Milwaukee has been the birth place of many actors and basketball players and the death place of many writers and inventors. Milwaukee is located in United States.
Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee is the 31st-most populous city in the United States, and the fifth-most populous city in the Midwest. It is the central city of the Milwaukee metropolitan area, the 40th-most populous metro area in the U.S. Milwaukee is categorized as a "Gamma minus" city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, with a regional GDP of over $102 billion in 2020. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1883 and 2000, Milwaukee was the birth place of 80 globally memorable people, including Spencer Tracy, Herbert A. Simon, and Donald Knuth. Additionaly, 10 globally memorable people have passed away in Milwaukee including Christopher Latham Sholes, Arthur MacArthur Jr., and John D. MacDonald.
People Born in Milwaukee
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Spencer Tracy
1900 - 1967
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 1
Herbert A. Simon
1916 - 2001
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 2
Donald Knuth
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 3
Gene Wilder
1933 - 2016
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 4
George F. Kennan
1904 - 2005
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 5
Al Jarreau
1940 - 2017
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 6
Neale Donald Walsch
1943 - Present
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 7
Jeffrey Dahmer
1960 - 1994
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 8
David J. Wineland
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 9
Thomas A. Steitz
1940 - 2018
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 10
Robert Cialdini
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 11
Ronald Inglehart
1934 - 2021
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Milwaukee
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Paul Shenar
1936 - 1989
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 20
Leland Sklar
1947 - Present
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 23
Jeffrey C. Alexander
1947 - Present
HPI: 46.42
Rank: 32
Herbert Stothart
1885 - 1949
HPI: 43.90
Rank: 37
Oscar Osthoff
1883 - 1950
HPI: 42.18
Rank: 43
David Lowery
1980 - Present
HPI: 35.65
Rank: 56
Raja Chari
1977 - Present
HPI: 32.86
Rank: 63
Bob Kasten
1942 - Present
HPI: 30.12
Rank: 67
Tyler Herro
2000 - Present
HPI: 24.80
Rank: 73
Trixie Mattel
1989 - Present
HPI: 24.32
Rank: 75
Tom Cross
2000 - Present
HPI: 14.94
Rank: 80
People Deceased in Milwaukee
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Christopher Latham Sholes
1819 - 1890
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 1
Arthur MacArthur Jr.
1845 - 1912
HPI: 48.41
Rank: 2
John D. MacDonald
1916 - 1986
HPI: 47.84
Rank: 3
Stanley G. Weinbaum
1902 - 1935
HPI: 47.37
Rank: 4
Erik Olin Wright
1947 - 2019
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 5
Blind Blake
1893 - 1934
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 6
Monte Blue
1887 - 1963
HPI: 41.06
Rank: 7
Phil Katz
1962 - 2000
HPI: 38.05
Rank: 8
Herb Kohl
1935 - 2023
HPI: 37.11
Rank: 9
Jimmy Banks
1964 - 2019
HPI: 26.32
Rank: 10
Most individuals born in present day Milwaukee were actors (19), basketball players (7), politicians (6), musicians (6), and writers (4), while most who died were writers (2), inventors (1), military personnels (1), sociologists (1), and musicians (1).
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Milwaukee, including Gene Wilder, Heather Graham, and Jane Kaczmarek. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Milwaukee, including Spencer Tracy, Gene Wilder, and Alfred Lunt.
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Milwaukee since 1700.
