Seattle
Seattle ranks 95th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Stuttgart, New Orleans, and Yokohama. Memorable people born in Seattle include Bill Gates, Jimi Hendrix, and Frances Farmer. Memorable people who died in Seattle include Carl Sagan, Kurt Cobain, and Jon Brower Minnoch. Seattle has been the birth place of many actors and singers and the death place of many physicists and chemists. 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 2022 population of 749,256 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
Between 1890 and 2001, Seattle was the birth place of 98 globally memorable people, including Bill Gates, Jimi Hendrix, and Frances Farmer. Additionaly, 36 globally memorable people have passed away in Seattle including Carl Sagan, Kurt Cobain, and Jon Brower Minnoch.
People Born in Seattle
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Bill Gates
1955 - Present
HPI: 80.36
Rank: 1
Jimi Hendrix
1942 - 1970
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 2
Frances Farmer
1913 - 1970
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 3
Linda B. Buck
1947 - Present
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 4
Minoru Yamasaki
1912 - 1986
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 5
Paul Allen
1953 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 6
Duff McKagan
1964 - Present
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 7
Chris Cornell
1964 - 2017
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 8
George Stigler
1911 - 1991
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 9
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
1966 - Present
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 10
Alice Ball
1892 - 1916
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 11
Chester Carlson
1906 - 1968
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Seattle
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Josephine Hutchinson
1903 - 1998
HPI: 44.72
Rank: 34
Gregg Rolie
1947 - Present
HPI: 42.77
Rank: 39
Alma Bennett
1904 - 1958
HPI: 41.69
Rank: 40
Timothy Ray Brown
1966 - 2020
HPI: 40.27
Rank: 51
Keith Cooke
1959 - Present
HPI: 39.01
Rank: 60
Cathryn Damon
1930 - 1987
HPI: 34.35
Rank: 73
Amanda Knox
1987 - Present
HPI: 34.17
Rank: 74
Emma Dumont
1994 - Present
HPI: 24.99
Rank: 91
Jen Taylor
1973 - Present
HPI: 24.54
Rank: 92
Jamie Margolin
2001 - Present
HPI: 14.17
Rank: 98
People Deceased in Seattle
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Carl Sagan
1934 - 1996
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 1
Kurt Cobain
1967 - 1994
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 2
Jon Brower Minnoch
1941 - 1983
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 3
Walter Houser Brattain
1902 - 1987
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 4
Hans Georg Dehmelt
1922 - 2017
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 5
Paul Allen
1953 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 6
Robert F. Furchgott
1916 - 2009
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 7
E. Donnall Thomas
1920 - 2012
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 8
Edmond H. Fischer
1920 - 2021
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 9
Edwin G. Krebs
1918 - 2009
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 10
Alice Ball
1892 - 1916
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 11
Alex Haley
1921 - 1992
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Seattle
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Maureen Starkey Tigrett
1946 - 1994
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 19
David Hall
1875 - 1972
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 23
Robert Spitzer
1932 - 2015
HPI: 43.10
Rank: 26
Steve Anderson
1906 - 1988
HPI: 42.80
Rank: 27
Branko Grünbaum
1929 - 2018
HPI: 40.09
Rank: 31
Bob Said
1932 - 2002
HPI: 33.42
Rank: 36
Most individuals born in present day Seattle were actors (27), singers (11), musicians (9), basketball players (9), and athletes (5), while most who died were physicists (4), chemists (4), writers (4), musicians (4), and athletes (3).
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Seattle, including Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Rainn Wilson, and Jean Smart. 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 Rainn Wilson.
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Seattle since 1700.
