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Boston ranks 23rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Copenhagen, Barcelona, and Milan. Memorable people born in Boston include Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin Franklin, and Louis Sullivan. Memorable people who died in Boston include Robert Frost, Louisa May Alcott, and Anthony Quinn. Boston has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Boston is located in United States.

Boston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It serves as the cultural and financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. Boston has an area of 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area had a population of 4.9 million in 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the eleventh-largest in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1649 and 2002, Boston was the birth place of 316 globally memorable people, including Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin Franklin, and Louis Sullivan. Additionaly, 111 globally memorable people have passed away in Boston including Robert Frost, Louisa May Alcott, and Anthony Quinn.

People Born in Boston

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Boston were actors (92), politicians (32), writers (25), athletes (15), and musicians (11),  while most who died were writers (18), politicians (14), philosophers (6), social activists (6), and physicists (5).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Boston, including Leonard Nimoy, Mark Wahlberg, and Edward Norton. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Boston, including Leonard Nimoy, Mark Wahlberg, and Edward Norton.

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Overlapping Lives

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