Brooklyn
Brooklyn ranks 11th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest. Memorable people born in Brooklyn include Abraham Maslow, Anthony Fauci, and Milton Friedman. Memorable people who died in Brooklyn include Karl Ferdinand Braun, Lola Montez, and Elias Howe. Brooklyn has been the birth place of many actors, and singers and the death place of many actors, and musicians. Brooklyn is located in United States.
Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located at the westernmost end of Long Island and formerly an independent city, Brooklyn shares a land border with the borough and county of Queens. It has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan, across the East River, including the architecturally significant Brooklyn Bridge, and is connected to Staten Island by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1810 and 2002, Brooklyn was the birth place of 497 globally memorable people, including Abraham Maslow, Anthony Fauci, and Milton Friedman. Additionaly, 43 globally memorable people have passed away in Brooklyn including Karl Ferdinand Braun, Lola Montez, and Elias Howe.
People Born in Brooklyn
Go to all RankingsAbraham Maslow
PSYCHOLOGIST
1908 - 1970
HPI: 80.93
Rank: 366
Anthony Fauci
PHYSICIAN
1940 - Present
HPI: 80.91
Rank: 153
Milton Friedman
ECONOMIST
1912 - 2006
HPI: 77.39
Rank: 431
Barbra Streisand
SINGER
1942 - Present
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 263
Jeffrey Epstein
BUSINESSPERSON
1953 - 2019
HPI: 76.09
Rank: 225
Michael Jordan
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1963 - Present
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 130
Eli Wallach
ACTOR
1915 - 2014
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 296
Joe Dassin
SINGER
1938 - 1980
HPI: 74.20
Rank: 487
Bob Kahn
INVENTOR
1938 - Present
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 156
John Saxon
ACTOR
1935 - 2020
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 429
Louis Gossett Jr.
ACTOR
1936 - 2024
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 282
Irwin Rose
BIOLOGIST
1926 - 2015
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 363
Newly Added People Born in Brooklyn
Go to all RankingsCurtis Yarvin
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1973 - Present
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 332
Wendell Alexis
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1964 - Present
HPI: 46.49
Rank: 343
E. Elias Merhige
1964 - Present
HPI: 45.53
Rank: 345
Jeffrey Goldberg
WRITER
1965 - Present
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 341
Kevin Saunderson
MUSICIAN
1964 - Present
HPI: 44.17
Rank: 344
Adam Rich
ACTOR
1968 - 2023
HPI: 43.27
Rank: 339
Roy Lee
PRODUCER
1969 - Present
HPI: 42.63
Rank: 336
Franky G
ACTOR
1965 - Present
HPI: 41.40
Rank: 340
Fredro Starr
SINGER
1971 - Present
HPI: 41.01
Rank: 334
Reno Wilson
ACTOR
1969 - Present
HPI: 40.41
Rank: 338
Kai Cenat
POLITICIAN
2001 - Present
HPI: 37.81
Rank: 323
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
MUSICIAN
1970 - Present
HPI: 37.74
Rank: 335
People Deceased in Brooklyn
Go to all RankingsKarl Ferdinand Braun
INVENTOR
1850 - 1918
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 43
Lola Montez
ACTOR
1821 - 1861
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 23
Elias Howe
INVENTOR
1819 - 1867
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 33
Charles Dow
JOURNALIST
1851 - 1902
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 13
Frederick William Franz
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1893 - 1992
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 32
Jonas Mekas
WRITER
1922 - 2019
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 1
Winsor McCay
COMIC ARTIST
1867 - 1934
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 25
James B. Donovan
LAWYER
1916 - 1970
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 22
Susannah Mushatt Jones
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1899 - 2016
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 15
Milton George Henschel
POLITICIAN
1920 - 2003
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 35
Alexander Lodygin
ENGINEER
1847 - 1923
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 42
Cecil Taylor
MUSICIAN
1929 - 2018
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 34
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Brooklyn were actors (185), singers (43), musicians (26), basketball players (25), and writers (22), while most who died were actors (5), musicians (5), writers (4), social activists (4), and singers (4).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Brooklyn, including John Saxon, Louis Gossett Jr., and Martin Landau. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Brooklyn, including Eli Wallach, John Saxon, and Louis Gossett Jr..
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Brooklyn since 1700.




































