6.2436° N, 75.5745° W

MEDELLIN

Most Famous People Born in Medellin, Colombia

Notable people

680

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1977

Most distinctive

Model 12.5×

A paisa city whose cultural exports run the full length of the twentieth century — a Football bench at better than three times the global baseline, the telenovela-era Actor and Singer presences you'd expect, and, more tellingly, a Model cluster running at better than twelve times baseline, a quiet index of how thoroughly Medellin reinvented its image after the 1990s.