39.4699° N, 0.3763° W

VALENCIA

Most Famous People Born in Valencia, Spain

Notable people

1,500

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1935

Most distinctive

Professor 4.1×

A Mediterranean port whose bench reaches back through the Kingdom of Valencia to the Taifa of Balansiya. Valencia's distinctive professions are professors, philosophers, sculptors, and architects alongside a heavy column of painters — Sorolla most famous among them — and the early tail runs through Ibn Jubayr and the Arab-Andalusi poets of the 12th century. The House of Aragon provided four medieval kings born in or around the city, and Blasco Ibáñez's realist novels still define the modern literary shelf.