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.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Valencia Is Known For
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Politician is Valencia's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (161).
Valencia over-indexes on professor — 4.1× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Valencia's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1820s Clear ×
Juan Vilanova y Piera
1821 - 1893
Enrique Pérez Escrich
1829 - 1897
Rafael Berenguer y Condé
1822 - 1890
Domingo Martínez
1822 - 1898
José Peris y Valero
1821 - 1877
Rafael Cervera Royo
1828 - 1903
Gabriel Rodríguez
1829 - 1901
Josep Hospitaler i Caballer
1820 - 1880
Cristóbal Pascual y Genís
1823 - 1881
José Felipe Parra
1826 - 1890
Peregrín García Cadena
1823 - 1882
Carlos Cervera Monge
1829 - 1869
José María Orberá Carrión
1827 - 1886
José Busutil
1826 - 1889