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ROME

Most Famous People Born in Rome, Italy

Notable people

9,455

Peak decade

1960s

Median birth year

1942

Most distinctive

Film 3.8×

Twenty-six centuries on a single hill. Rome is the only city in the dataset whose notable births stretch from the late Republic through every Western era to the present day, and the categories shift accordingly — from senators and emperors to popes and martyrs to film directors and footballers. The city has had an unusually steady supply of fame in every century since 1500, and an unusually long memory of who counted in every century before.