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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.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Athens Is Known For
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Politician is Athens's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (217).
Athens over-indexes on polo — 21.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Athens's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Phidias
-490 - -430
Praxiteles
-395 - -330
Takis
1925 - 2019
Chryssa
1933 - 2013
Leochares
-
Antenor
-
George Zongolopoulos
1903 - 2004
Silanion
-
Apollonios d'Athènes
-
Cephisodotus the Younger
-
Michael Tombros
1889 - 1974
Hegias of Athens
-
Phyromachos
-
Costas Varotsos
Born 1955
Glykon von Athen
-
Nesiotes
Died -477
Costa Coulentianos
1918 - 1995
Yiannis Melanitis
Born 1967
Georgios Vroutos
1843 - 1909
Apollodorus (sculptor)
-
Nicolas Vlavianos
Born 1929
Diogenes of Athens (sculptor)
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Apollonius (son of Archias)
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Aggelika Korovessi
Born 1952
Aglaé Libéraki
1923 - 1985
Timarque
-
Antiochus (sculptor)
-
Giorgio Oikonomoy
Born 1947
Nikos Perantinos
1910 - 1991
Kostis Velonis
Born 1968
Heleni Polichronatou
Born 1959