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LISBON

Most Famous People Born in Lisbon, Portugal

Notable people

3,023

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1938

Most distinctive

Model 3.8×

An Atlantic capital that built an empire and kept the receipts. Lisbon's distinctive professions tilt literary and architectural — writers, poets, composers, physicians, architects — and the dataset reaches back unbroken to the 12th century, when the city was reconquered from the Moors. The modern half is footballers, stage actors, and a surprisingly deep model bench; the older half is the colonial governors and Discoveries-era princes who never quite leave any Lisbon street.