Cultural Production in

Present Day

Edinburgh (gbr)

United Kingdom

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Edinburgh ranks 79th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Frankfurt, Brazil, and Saitama Prefecture. Memorable people born in Edinburgh include Alexander Graham Bell, Arthur Conan Doyle, and James Clerk Maxwell. Memorable people who died in Edinburgh include Peter Higgs, William Dunbar, and John Knox. Edinburgh has been the birth place of many soccer players, and writers and the death place of many writers, and mathematicians. Edinburgh is located in United Kingdom.

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh had a population of 506,520 in 2020, making it the second-most populous city in Scotland and the seventh-most populous in the United Kingdom. The wider metropolitan area had a population of 912,490 in the same year. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1534 and 1997, Edinburgh was the birth place of 135 globally memorable people, including Alexander Graham Bell, Arthur Conan Doyle, and James Clerk Maxwell. Additionaly, 65 globally memorable people have passed away in Edinburgh including Peter Higgs, William Dunbar, and John Knox.

People Born in Edinburgh

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Edinburgh were soccer players (24), writers (16), politicians (16), actors (13), and biologists (10),  while most who died were writers (9), mathematicians (8), physicists (7), biologists (5), and soccer players (4).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Edinburgh, including Dave Mackay, Graeme Souness, and Jimmy Murray. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Edinburgh, including Dave Mackay, Graeme Souness, and Jimmy Murray.

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Overlapping Lives

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