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ATHENS

Most Famous People Born in Athens, Greece

Notable people

2,033

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1957

Most distinctive

Polo 21.6×

Two cities under one name. Most of Athens's earliest notables are philosophers, dramatists, and statesmen of the 5th and 4th centuries BC; almost everyone else was born after 1900. The two thousand years between are nearly empty — a gap as dramatic as anything in the dataset, and one that makes the modern Athens of water polo players, basketball players, sculptors, and swimmers feel like an entirely different civilization wearing the same name.