40.4167° N, 3.7025° W
MADRID
Most Famous People Born in Madrid, Spain
- Notable people
- 6,346
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1951
- Most distinctive
- Presenter 5.8×
Court city, then capital city, then everything else. Madrid's distinctive professions are presenters, diplomats, journalists, architects, and writers — the trades of a city where the ministries, the Real Academia, and the national television studios sit within a few blocks of each other. Almost nothing here predates the 1500s, when Philip II made Madrid the seat of the Spanish empire and the rest of the country started moving in; the modern bench is built on Real Madrid footballers and an unusually deep film bench.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Madrid Is Known For
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Actor is Madrid's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (692).
Madrid over-indexes on presenter — 5.8× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Madrid's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Art & Design
- Science
- Other
- Filtered to 1710s Clear ×
Charles III of Spain
1716 - 1788
Ferdinand VI of Spain
1713 - 1759
Mariana Victoria of Spain
1718 - 1781
José Solís Folch de Cardona
1716 - 1770
Alejandro González Velázquez
1719 - 1772
Francisco de Solís Folch de Cardona
1713 - 1776
Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 3rd Duke of Berwick
1718 - 1785
Luis González Velázquez
1715 - 1763
Philip of Spain (1712–1719)
1712 - 1719
Juan López Pacheco, Duke of Escalona
1716 - 1751
Diego de Villanueva
1715 - 1774
Andrés Fernández Pacheco, 10th Duke of Escalona
1710 - 1746
Joaquín Diego de Zúñiga
1715 - 1777
Juan de Dios López
1711 - 1773
Antonio Álvarez de Toledo Osorio Pérez de Guzmá
1716 - 1773
Josefa de Zúñiga y Castro
1718 - 1771
Isabella Pio di Savoia
1719 - 1799
Antonio González de Arce
1718 - 1798