Burlington, Iowa
Burlington, Iowa ranks 2,235th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Belgian Congo, Ibadan, and Taiyuan. Memorable people born in Burlington, Iowa include Wallace Carothers, Robert Noyce, and Aldo Leopold. Burlington, Iowa has been the birth place of many chemists, and inventors. Burlington, Iowa is located in United States.
Burlington is a city in, and the county seat of, Des Moines County, Iowa, United States. The population was 23,982 in the 2020 census, a decline from the 26,839 population in 2000. Burlington is the center of a micropolitan area, which includes West Burlington and Middletown, Iowa, and Gulfport, Illinois. Burlington is the home of Snake Alley, the most crooked street in the world. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1876 and 1971, Burlington, Iowa was the birth place of 7 globally memorable people, including Wallace Carothers, Robert Noyce, and Aldo Leopold.
People Born in Burlington, Iowa
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Wallace Carothers
CHEMIST
1896 - 1937
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 5
Robert Noyce
INVENTOR
1927 - 1990
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 2
Aldo Leopold
BIOLOGIST
1887 - 1948
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 7
Max O. Lorenz
ECONOMIST
1876 - 1959
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 6
James M. Kelly
ASTRONAUT
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 3
Kurt Warner
AMERICAN FOOTBALL PLAYER
1971 - Present
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 1
William Frawley
ACTOR
1887 - 1966
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 4
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Burlington, Iowa were chemists (1), inventors (1), biologists (1), economists (1), and astronauts (1), while most who died were .
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, inventors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Burlington, Iowa, including Robert Noyce. Whereas, throughout history, chemists have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Burlington, Iowa, including Wallace Carothers.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 5 globally memorable people born in Burlington, Iowa since 1700.
