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Seattle ranks 90th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Japan, Tallinn, and San Diego. Memorable people born in Seattle include Bill Gates, Jimi Hendrix, and Jon Brower Minnoch. Memorable people who died in Seattle include Carl Sagan, Kurt Cobain, and Walter Houser Brattain. Seattle has been the birth place of many actors, and basketball players and the death place of many athletes, and physicists. Seattle is located in United States.

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2023 population of 755,078 it is the most populous city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America, and the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 made it one of the country's fastest-growing large cities. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1890 and 2002, Seattle was the birth place of 120 globally memorable people, including Bill Gates, Jimi Hendrix, and Jon Brower Minnoch. Additionaly, 46 globally memorable people have passed away in Seattle including Carl Sagan, Kurt Cobain, and Walter Houser Brattain.

People Born in Seattle

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People Deceased in Seattle

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Seattle were actors (31), basketball players (15), singers (11), musicians (10), and athletes (10),  while most who died were athletes (6), physicists (5), chemists (4), actors (4), and writers (4).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Seattle, including Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jean Smart, and Rainn Wilson. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Seattle, including Frances Farmer, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Jean Smart.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Seattle since 1700.