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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Salvadore Cammarano
1801 - 1852
Eugène Flandin
1809 - 1889
Giacinto Gigante
1806 - 1876
Luigi Ricci (composer)
1805 - 1859
Michael Costa (conductor)
1808 - 1884
Federico Ricci
1809 - 1877
Antonio Ranieri
1806 - 1888
Charles Januarius Acton
1803 - 1847
Louis Clapisson
1808 - 1866
Alessandro Poerio
1802 - 1848
Carlo Poerio
1803 - 1867
Carlo Maria Curci
1809 - 1891
Vincenzo Abbati
1803 - 1866
Domenico Carafa della Spina di Traetto
1805 - 1879
Tito Angelini
1806 - 1878
Francesco Saverio Apuzzo
1807 - 1880
Charles-Marie-Napoléon de Beaufort d'Hautpoul
1804 - 1890
Filippo Balbi
1806 - 1890
Maria Adeodata Pisani
1806 - 1855
Giuseppe Ricciardi (1808)
1808 - 1882
Pietro Calà Ulloa
1801 - 1879
Francesco de' Medici di Ottaiano
1808 - 1857
Paolo Emilio Imbriani
1808 - 1877
Maria Giuseppa Guacci
1807 - 1848
Lodovico Bianchini
1803 - 1871
Giovanni La Cecilia
1801 - 1880
Giuseppe Staffa
1807 - 1877
Pasquale Altavilla
1806 - 1875
Giacomo Savarese
1808 - 1884
Gregorio De Filippis Delfico
1801 - 1847
Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli
1806 - 1812
Francesco Pisante
1804 - 1889
Antonio Calà Ulloa
1807 - 1889
Raffaele Scalese
1800 - 1884
Giovanni Serritelli
1809 - 1882
Giuseppe Gallotti
1803 - 1879
Francesco Oliva (pittore)
1807 - 1861
Pasquale Catalano Gonzaga
1800 - 1869
Paolo de Sangro
1806 - 1861
Francesco Ronchi
1801 - 1878
Francesco Antonelli
1803 - 1877
Tito Cacace
1800 - 1892
Gioacchino Colonna di Stigliano, IV principe di St
1809 - 1900
Marcantonio Colonna di Stigliano, III principe di
1808 - 1890
Giovanni Moretti (composer)
1807 - 1884
Gaetano Barbati
1804 - 1882
Giovanni Salomone
1806 - 1877
Crescenzio La Gamba
Born 1800
Giuseppe Lauria
1805 - 1879
Francesco Maria Correale di Terranova
1801 - 1884
Vincenzo Strongoli Pignatelli
1808 - 1881