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PORTO

Most Famous People Born in Porto, Portugal

Notable people

835

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1944

Most distinctive

Explorer 8.5×

Henry the Navigator and the Age of Discovery launched literally from the Douro, which is why Porto's Explorer bench reads the way it does. The Architect cluster is the Porto School — Siza, Souto de Moura and their Pritzker shelf — and the Poet and Writer lines cover the Eça de Queirós lineage that made the city Portugal's literary conscience.