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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.