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
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- Field: Philosopher Clear ×
Juan Luis Vives
1492 - 1540
Adela Cortina
Born 1947
Celia Amorós
Born 1944
Benedict Pereira
1535 - 1610
Juan Arnau
Born 1968
Francisco Romero (philosopher)
1891 - 1962
Antonio Eximeno y Pujades
1729 - 1809
Jesús Ballesteros
Born 1943
José Sanmartín Esplugues
1948 - 2020
Rosa María Rodríguez Magda
Born 1957
Gustavo Muñoz Veiga
Born 1951
Fadrique Furió Ceriol
1527 - 1592
José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes
Born 1968
Cristina Lafont
Born 1963
Miguel Lluch Baixauli
1959 - 2015
Antoni Defez
Born 1958
Enrique Bonete Perales
Born 1959