6.4500° N, 3.4000° E
LAGOS
Most Famous People Born in Lagos, Nigeria
- Notable people
- 795
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1983
- Most distinctive
- Songwriter 7.5×
A football factory in a city of twenty million. More than two in five of Lagos's notable births play professional football — the highest share of any single profession in any city in the dataset — and most of the rest are basketball players, boxers, activists, and the songwriters of Afrobeats. Almost everyone is born after 1960, and almost everyone leaves at some point to play somewhere else.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Lagos during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Lagos Is Known For
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Football is Lagos's biggest profession — 43% of all notables (343).
Lagos over-indexes on songwriter — 7.5× the global rate.
Lagos under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Lagos's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Film & TV
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Antonio Deinde Fernandez
1936 - 2015
Razaq Okoya
Born 1940
Gilbert Chagoury
Born 1946
Kehinde Kamson
Born 1961
John Momoh
Born 1957
Ade Bajomo
Born 1966
Salami Agbaje
1880 - 1953
Wanle Akinboboye
Born 1958
Olatunji Ajisomo Alabi
1915 - 1998
Samuel Herbert Pearse
Born 1865
Seyi Vodi
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Fagbule Olanike
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Ossy Achievas
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