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Stoke-on-Trent (gbr)

United Kingdom

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Stoke-on-Trent ranks 1,034th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kristiansand, Breda, and Bacău. Memorable people born in Stoke-on-Trent include Robbie Williams, Phil Taylor, and Hugh Dancy. Memorable people who died in Stoke-on-Trent include Stanley Matthews, Gordon Banks, and John Lennard-Jones. Stoke-on-Trent has been the birth place of many athletes, and soccer players and the death place of many soccer players, and physicists. Stoke-on-Trent is located in United Kingdom.

Stoke-on-Trent is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of 36 square miles (93 km2). In 2022, the city had an estimated population of 259,965. It is the largest settlement in Staffordshire and is surrounded by the towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Alsager, Kidsgrove and Biddulph, which form a conurbation around the city. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 1999, Stoke-on-Trent was the birth place of 21 globally memorable people, including Robbie Williams, Phil Taylor, and Hugh Dancy. Additionaly, 5 globally memorable people have passed away in Stoke-on-Trent including Stanley Matthews, Gordon Banks, and John Lennard-Jones.

People Born in Stoke-on-Trent

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Stoke-on-Trent were athletes (8), soccer players (7), actors (2), writers (2), and singers (1),  while most who died were soccer players (3), physicists (1), and actors (1).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Stoke-on-Trent, including Bill McGarry, Dennis Wilshaw, and Aaron Ramsdale. Whereas, throughout history, athletes have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Stoke-on-Trent, including Ludmila, Joe Clarke, and Jazmin Sawyers.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 4 globally memorable people born in Stoke-on-Trent since 1700.