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FLORENCE

Most Famous People Born in Florence, Italy

Notable people

3,189

Peak decade

1920s

Median birth year

1869

Most distinctive

Sculptor 5.7×

The Quattrocento, in one city. Florence is the only city in the dataset where the 1400s and 1500s together account for a fifth of all notable births, and the distinctive shelves still carry the Medici imprint — sculptors and painters at more than five times the global rate, architects, poets, and an unusually heavy mathematician column from the same workshops that produced Brunelleschi and Galileo. The modern half adds footballers and actors, but the city's centre of gravity is the two centuries when it more or less invented the Renaissance.