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Groningen (nld)

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Groningen ranks 444th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chelyabinsk, Jersey City, New Jersey, and Haifa. Memorable people born in Groningen include Daniel Bernoulli, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Johan Huizinga. Memorable people who died in Groningen include Albert Eckhout, Adriaan Blaauw, and Ubbo Emmius. Groningen has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many painters, and astronomers. Groningen is located in Netherlands.

Groningen is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. Dubbed the "capital of the north", Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of the country; as of January 2025, it had 244,807 inhabitants, making it the sixth largest city/municipality in the Netherlands and the second largest outside the Randstad. The Groningen metropolitan area has a population of over 360,000. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1534 and 2000, Groningen was the birth place of 31 globally memorable people, including Daniel Bernoulli, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Johan Huizinga. Additionaly, 6 globally memorable people have passed away in Groningen including Albert Eckhout, Adriaan Blaauw, and Ubbo Emmius.

People Born in Groningen

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People Deceased in Groningen

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Groningen were soccer players (9), politicians (4), painters (3), physicists (2), and astronomers (2),  while most who died were painters (1), astronomers (1), historians (1), photographers (1), and philosophers (1).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Groningen, including Dick Nanninga, Hugo Hovenkamp, and Leandro Bacuna. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Groningen, including Dick Nanninga, Jaap Eden, and Hugo Hovenkamp.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 12 globally memorable people born in Groningen since 1700.