40.8334° N, 14.2500° E
NAPOLI
Most Famous People Born in Napoli, Italy
- Notable people
- 4,021
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1920
- Most distinctive
- Prelate 9.8×
Twenty centuries of opera and the Catholic hierarchy. Naples's most distinctive shelf is prelate at nearly ten times the global rate — the cardinals and archbishops of one of Christendom's oldest sees — alongside a composer column built around the 18th-century Neapolitan opera school of Pergolesi, Cimarosa, and Paisiello. The notable births stretch from the late Republic to the present, with an unusually heavy 17th- and 18th-century tail when the Bourbon court made Naples one of the largest cities in Europe.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Napoli during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Napoli Is Known For
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Actor is Napoli's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (442).
Napoli over-indexes on prelate — 9.8× the global rate.
Napoli under-produces football — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Napoli's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Nicola Matteis
1650 - 1713
Martino Altomonte
1657 - 1745
Gaetano Greco
1657 - 1728
Andrea Belvedere
1652 - 1732
Lorenzo Vaccaro
1655 - 1706
Antonio del Giudice
1657 - 1733
Giuseppe Simonelli
1650 - 1710
Restaino Cantelmo-Stuart
1651 - 1723
Carlo Coppola
Born 1653
Barthélemy Chasse
1659 - 1720
Ludovico Sabbatini
1650 - 1724
Baldassarre Pisani
Born 1650
Carlo Sernicola (religioso)
1659 - 1721
Niccolò Amenta
1659 - 1719
Filippo Anastasio
1656 - 1735
Elena Recco
1654 - 1700
Biagio Gambaro
1650 - 1721
Matteo Gagliani
1655 - 1717
Eligio Caracciolo
1654 - 1700
Carlo Moscatiello
1650 - 1739