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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ranks 1,082nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Baden-Baden, Leytonstone, and Neuwied. Memorable people born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania include Florence Foster Jenkins, David Bohm, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Memorable people who died in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania include Alvin Kraenzlein, Jess McMahon, and Jozef Murgaš. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania has been the birth place of many actors, and physicists and the death place of many athletes, and celebrities. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania is located in United States.

Wilkes-Barre is a city in and the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It is the second-largest city, after Scranton, in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 567,559 as of the 2020 census, making it the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania after the Delaware Valley, Greater Pittsburgh, the Lehigh Valley, and Greater Harrisburg. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1796 and 1992, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania was the birth place of 13 globally memorable people, including Florence Foster Jenkins, David Bohm, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Additionaly, 3 globally memorable people have passed away in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania including Alvin Kraenzlein, Jess McMahon, and Jozef Murgaš.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania were actors (4), physicists (2), painters (2), singers (1), and film directors (1),  while most who died were athletes (1), celebrities (1), and inventors (1).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, including Mary McDonnell, Darlanne Fluegel, and Harley Jane Kozak. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, including Mary McDonnell, James Karen, and Darlanne Fluegel.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 10 globally memorable people born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania since 1700.