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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.