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New Jersey ranks 554th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Shkodër, Košice, and Tula, Russia. Memorable people born in New Jersey include Mark Tornillo, Niles Eldredge, and Stephen P. Synnott. Memorable people who died in New Jersey include Danny Aiello, John Wesley Hyatt, and Inge Sørensen. New Jersey has been the birth place of many actors and singers and the death place of many singers and actors. New Jersey is located in United States.

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is the most densely populated of all 50 U.S. states, and is situated at the center of the Northeast megalopolis. New Jersey is bordered on its north and east by New York state; on its east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on its west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on its southwest by Delaware Bay and Delaware. At 7,354 square miles (19,050 km2), New Jersey is the fifth-smallest state in land area, but with close to 9.3 million residents as of the 2020 United States census, its highest decennial count ever, it ranks 11th in population. The state capital is Trenton, and the state's most populous city is Newark. New Jersey is the only U.S. state in which every county is deemed urban by the U.S. Census Bureau with 13 counties included in the New York metropolitan area, seven counties in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, and Warren County part of the heavily industrialized Lehigh Valley metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia

Between 1931 and 2009, New Jersey was the birth place of 22 globally memorable people, including Mark Tornillo, Niles Eldredge, and Stephen P. Synnott. Additionaly, 6 globally memorable people have passed away in New Jersey including Danny Aiello, John Wesley Hyatt, and Inge Sørensen.

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Most individuals born in present day New Jersey were actors (9), singers (3), musicians (2), geologists (1), and astronomers (1),  while most who died were singers (2), actors (1), inventors (1), politicians (1), and soccer players (1).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in New Jersey, including Kira Kosarin, Deanna Russo, and Kristine Froseth. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day New Jersey, including Kira Kosarin, Deanna Russo, and Kristine Froseth.

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