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Mexico City ranks 33rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind São Paulo, Amsterdam, and Florence. Memorable people born in Mexico City include Carlos Slim, Claudia Sheinbaum, and Hugo Sánchez. Memorable people who died in Mexico City include Frida Kahlo, Leon Trotsky, and Gabriel García Márquez. Mexico City has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players. Mexico City is located in Mexico.

Mexico City is the capital and largest city of Mexico, as well as the most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world, and is classified as an Alpha world city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of 2,240 meters (7,350 ft). The city has 16 boroughs or demarcaciones territoriales, which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or colonias. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 2004, Mexico City was the birth place of 257 globally memorable people, including Carlos Slim, Claudia Sheinbaum, and Hugo Sánchez. Additionaly, 182 globally memorable people have passed away in Mexico City including Frida Kahlo, Leon Trotsky, and Gabriel García Márquez.

People Born in Mexico City

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Mexico City were soccer players (70), actors (63), politicians (21), athletes (18), and writers (13),  while most who died were politicians (48), soccer players (24), writers (22), actors (21), and painters (8).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Mexico City, including Cristóbal Ortega, Raúl Cárdenas, and Enrique Borja. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Mexico City, including Manuel Rosas, Cristóbal Ortega, and Raúl Cárdenas.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Mexico City since 1700.