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Palo Alto, California (usa)

United States

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Palo Alto, California ranks 369th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Reims, La Plata, and Evanston, Illinois. Memorable people born in Palo Alto, California include Teri Hatcher, Andrew Fire, and James Franco. Memorable people who died in Palo Alto, California include Ernest Lawrence, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, and Lee Cronbach. Palo Alto, California has been the birth place of many actors, and athletes and the death place of many physicists, and psychologists. Palo Alto, California is located in United States.

Palo Alto is a charter city in northwestern Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1912 and 1995, Palo Alto, California was the birth place of 39 globally memorable people, including Teri Hatcher, Andrew Fire, and James Franco. Additionaly, 29 globally memorable people have passed away in Palo Alto, California including Ernest Lawrence, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, and Lee Cronbach.

People Born in Palo Alto, California

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People Deceased in Palo Alto, California

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Palo Alto, California were actors (12), athletes (5), politicians (3), musicians (3), and wrestlers (2),  while most who died were physicists (7), psychologists (4), chemists (2), economists (2), and athletes (2).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Palo Alto, California, including Teri Hatcher, James Franco, and Amy Irving. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Palo Alto, California, including Teri Hatcher, James Franco, and Amy Irving.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 4 globally memorable people born in Palo Alto, California since 1700.