Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (usa)

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ranks 1,082nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Baden-Baden, Leytonstone, and Neuwied. Memorable people born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania include David Bohm, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Florence Foster Jenkins. Memorable people who died in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania include Jess McMahon, Alvin Kraenzlein, and Jozef Murgaš. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania has been the birth place of many actors, and physicists and the death place of many celebrities, and athletes. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania is located in United States.

Wilkes-Barre is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It is the second-largest city, after Scranton, in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 567,559 as of the 2020 census, making it the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania after the Delaware Valley, Greater Pittsburgh, the Lehigh Valley, and Greater Harrisburg. Read more on Wikipedia