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MEXICO CITY

Most Famous People Born in Mexico City, Mexico

Notable people

4,319

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1959

Most distinctive

Wrestler 8.1×

One of the largest cities in the world, and one of the most camera-ready. Mexico City's distinctive professions are wrestlers and boxers at the top — the lucha libre and prizefighting tradition — alongside an actor and film-director share that is among the highest of any non-American city in the dataset. The pre-Columbian and colonial centuries leave only a thin tail; almost everything happens after the Revolution.