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San Jose, California ranks 308th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Parma, Uppsala, and Chișinău. Memorable people born in San Jose, California include Steve Wozniak, Michio Kaku, and Dudley R. Herschbach. Memorable people who died in San Jose, California include Nguyễn Khánh, Sylvia Browne, and John Johnson. San Jose, California has been the birth place of many actors and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and writers. San Jose, California is located in United States.

San Jose, officially the City of San José, is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 12th-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of 179.97 sq mi (466.1 km2). San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County and the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of around two million residents in 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Between 1870 and 2000, San Jose, California was the birth place of 37 globally memorable people, including Steve Wozniak, Michio Kaku, and Dudley R. Herschbach. Additionaly, 3 globally memorable people have passed away in San Jose, California including Nguyễn Khánh, Sylvia Browne, and John Johnson.

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Most individuals born in present day San Jose, California were actors (11), soccer players (4), musicians (3), businesspeople (3), and writers (2),  while most who died were politicians (1), writers (1), and basketball players (1).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in San Jose, California, including Kate Walsh, Farley Granger, and Josh Holloway. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day San Jose, California, including Kate Walsh, Farley Granger, and Lloyd Bacon.

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 9 globally memorable people born in San Jose, California since 1700.