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The Bronx (usa)

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The Bronx ranks 52nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hamburg, Brazil, and Melbourne. Memorable people born in The Bronx include Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, and Calvin Klein. Memorable people who died in The Bronx include Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Gloria Foster, and Joshua Fishman. The Bronx has been the birth place of many actors and singers and the death place of many actors and physicists. The Bronx is located in United States.

The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River. The Bronx is the only New York City borough not primarily located on an island. The Bronx has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km2) and a population of 1,472,654 in the 2020 census. If each borough were ranked as a city, the Bronx would rank as the ninth-most-populous in the U.S. Of the five boroughs, it has the fourth-largest area, fourth-highest population, and third-highest population density. The population density of the Bronx was 32,718.7 inhabitants per square mile (12,632.8/km2) in 2022, the third-highest population density of any county in the United States, behind Manhattan and Brooklyn. With a population that is 54.8% Hispanic as of 2020, it is the only majority-Hispanic county in the Northeastern United States and the fourth-most-populous nationwide. Read more on Wikipedia

Between 1878 and 1995, The Bronx was the birth place of 154 globally memorable people, including Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, and Calvin Klein. Additionaly, 17 globally memorable people have passed away in The Bronx including Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Gloria Foster, and Joshua Fishman.

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Most individuals born in present day The Bronx were actors (58), singers (15), musicians (15), film directors (12), and writers (12),  while most who died were actors (3), physicists (2), writers (2), athletes (2), and religious figures (2).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in The Bronx, including Lauren Bacall, Anne Bancroft, and Alan Alda. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day The Bronx, including Lauren Bacall, Anne Bancroft, and Carl Reiner.

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