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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Michele Carafa
1787 - 1872
Carlo Coccia
1782 - 1873
Michele Tenore
1780 - 1861
Catherine Bagration
1783 - 1857
Carlo Troya
1784 - 1858
Tommaso Riario Sforza
1782 - 1857
Francesco Maria Avellino
1788 - 1850
Filippo Giudice Caracciolo
1785 - 1844
Giacomo Cordella
1786 - 1847
Basilio Puoti
1782 - 1847
Francesco Serra-Cassano
1783 - 1850
Raffaele Sacco
1787 - 1872
Ferdinand Carl Maria Wedel-Jarlsberg
1781 - 1857
Giuseppe Cosenza
1788 - 1863
Prince Gennaro of Naples and Sicily
1780 - 1789
Pedro de Angelis
1784 - 1859
Vincenzo Flauti
1782 - 1863
Maria Henrietta of Naples and Sicily
1787 - 1792
Prince Giuseppe of Naples and Sicily
1780 - 1783
Joseph François Paris
1784 - 1871
Ferdinand Gasse
1780 - 1840
Odoardo Fischetti
1780 - 1823
Dominique Sébastien Léman
1781 - 1829
Carolina Bassi
1781 - 1862
Maria Clotilde of Naples and Sicily
1786 - 1792
Gennaro Spinelli, Prince of Cariati
1780 - 1851
Francesco Iavarone
1788 - 1854
Giuseppe Alliata di Villafranca
1784 - 1844
Michele Manzo
1785 - 1856
Giovanni Battista Naselli
1786 - 1870
Ferdinando Troya
1786 - 1861
Ferdinando Colonna di Stigliano, II principe di St
1785 - 1834
Maria Crocifissa delle Piaghe di Gesù
1782 - 1826