Boston
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 298 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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Edgar Allan Poe
WRITER
1809 - 1849
HPI: 90.35
Rank: 5
Benjamin Franklin
POLITICIAN
1706 - 1790
HPI: 85.90
Rank: 90
Louis Sullivan
ARCHITECT
1856 - 1924
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 29
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
POLITICIAN
1888 - 1969
HPI: 78.35
Rank: 27
Emily Greene Balch
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1867 - 1961
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 113
Ralph Waldo Emerson
WRITER
1803 - 1882
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 104
William F. Sharpe
ECONOMIST
1934 - Present
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 167
Sylvia Plath
WRITER
1932 - 1963
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 288
John McCarthy
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1927 - 2011
HPI: 72.27
Rank: 276
Leonard Nimoy
ACTOR
1931 - 2015
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 4
Robert Burns Woodward
CHEMIST
1917 - 1979
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 13
Donna Summer
SINGER
1948 - 2012
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 77
Newly Added People Born in Boston
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Sasha Alex Sloan
SINGER
1995 - Present
HPI: 32.39
Rank: 298
Kik Pierie
SOCCER PLAYER
2000 - Present
HPI: 30.98
Rank: 294
Coi Leray
SINGER
1997 - Present
HPI: 29.01
Rank: 296
Connor Murphy
POLITICIAN
1993 - Present
HPI: 27.07
Rank: 1
Isabel Atkin
POLITICIAN
1998 - Present
HPI: 26.95
Rank: 295
Noah Hanifin
POLITICIAN
1997 - Present
HPI: 25.33
Rank: 297
People Deceased in Boston
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Robert Frost
WRITER
1874 - 1963
HPI: 83.18
Rank: 82
Louisa May Alcott
WRITER
1832 - 1888
HPI: 81.95
Rank: 16
Anthony Quinn
ACTOR
1915 - 2001
HPI: 79.24
Rank: 70
Walter Gropius
ARCHITECT
1883 - 1969
HPI: 78.26
Rank: 63
William James Sidis
LINGUIST
1898 - 1944
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 35
Willard Van Orman Quine
PHILOSOPHER
1908 - 2000
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 22
Joseph Murray
PHYSICIAN
1919 - 2012
HPI: 74.20
Rank: 17
John Bardeen
PHYSICIST
1908 - 1991
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 78
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
WRITER
1809 - 1894
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 40
Phillis Wheatley
WRITER
1753 - 1784
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 29
Eugene O'Neill
WRITER
1888 - 1953
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 75
Thomas Burke
ATHLETE
1875 - 1929
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 37
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Boston were actors (86), politicians (33), writers (23), athletes (14), and musicians (11), while most who died were writers (18), politicians (14), philosophers (6), social activists (6), and physicists (5).
Occupational Trends
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.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Boston since 1700.
