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Ithaca, New York ranks 1,910th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kairouan, Mytilene, and Smolensk Governorate. Memorable people born in Ithaca, New York include Alex Haley, David Foster Wallace, and Margaret Geller. Memorable people who died in Ithaca, New York include Peter Debye, Hans Bethe, and Robert Coleman Richardson. Ithaca, New York has been the birth place of many writers, and astronomers and the death place of many physicists, and psychologists. Ithaca, New York is located in United States.

Ithaca is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It is situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. With a population of 32,108 as of the 2020 census, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area, which includes all 103,558 residents of Tompkins County, of which it is the county seat. The city is named after the Greek island of Ithaca, home of the protagonist Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1921 and 1991, Ithaca, New York was the birth place of 8 globally memorable people, including Alex Haley, David Foster Wallace, and Margaret Geller. Additionaly, 21 globally memorable people have passed away in Ithaca, New York including Peter Debye, Hans Bethe, and Robert Coleman Richardson. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Ithaca, New York than were born there.

People Born in Ithaca, New York

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Ithaca, New York were writers (2), astronomers (1), businesspeople (1), actors (1), and hockey players (1),  while most who died were physicists (6), psychologists (5), biologists (2), astronomers (2), and writers (2).

Over the past 100 years, writers have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Ithaca, New York, including David Foster Wallace. Whereas, throughout history, writers have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Ithaca, New York, including Alex Haley, and David Foster Wallace.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 2 globally memorable people born in Ithaca, New York since 1700.