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MONTEVIDEO

Most Famous People Born in Montevideo, Uruguay

Notable people

3,494

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1957

Most distinctive

Football 3.7×

An extreme football city, even by South American standards. More than forty per cent of Montevideo's notables are footballers — a share unmatched by any major capital outside a handful of Brazilian and Argentine cities — and the distinctive shelves beyond that are thin but telling: writers and lawyers, the ingredients of Uruguay's strong left-literary tradition. Galeano, Mujica, and Onetti sit a few shelves over from Suárez and Cavani.