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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.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Madrid during each.
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
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Giorgi Bagrationi (born 2011)
Born 2011