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SALVADOR

Most Famous People Born in Salvador, Brazil

Notable people

827

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1952

Most distinctive

Model 3.8×

Brazil's first colonial capital and the spiritual home of Afro-Brazilian music shows up in the data exactly where you'd expect: the Composer and Singer benches are basically the Tropicália and axé-music lineage, from Gilberto Gil and Caetano's circle out through Daniela Mercury and Carlinhos Brown. The Boxer count is the Bahian surprise — a city better known for candomblé drums than for the ring.