Popular People in Most Populous Cities
by dan_dassow | created - 19 Mar 2023 | updated - 31 Mar 2023 | PublicAccording to Wikipedia these are the 35 most populous cities. The people in this poll are the most popular people born in these cities listed on IMDb.
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Data are current as of 20-March-2023.
See also: Popular People From Most Populous Cities
1. Domee Shi
Writer | Turning Red
Domee Shi was born on August 19, 1989 in Chongqing, China. She is a writer, known for Turning Red (2022), Inside Out (2015) and Bao (2018).
Born: 19-August-1989 in Chongqing, China
Population: 32,054,159
50 people listed on IMDb
2. Li Jun Li
Actress | Babylon
Li Jun Li was born in Shanghai and at the age of six, moved to Bogotá, Colombia where Spanish became her second language. She then relocated to New York City, where she attended Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts as a Dance major. This is where she discovered her ...
Born: November 6 in Shanghai, China
Population: 24,870,895
384 people listed on IMDb
3. Jet Li
Actor | Huo Yuan Jia
Jet Li born Li Lian Jie in Beijing, China. He started training at the Beijing wushu academy (wushu is China's national sport, largely a performance version of various martial art styles) at age eight. He won five gold medals in the Chinese championships, his first when he was only 11. In his teens,...
Born: April 26, 1963 in Beijing, China
Population: 21,893,095
345 people listed on IMDb
4. Shah Rukh Khan
Actor | Don 2
Known for his trademark gelled spiked up crew cut with sunglasses, Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) is an Indian Bollywood movie star, movie producer, magazine model, showman, public speaker, author, philanthropist and television host/personality working predominantly in Hindi cinema.
Khan began his on-camera ...
Born: November 2, 1965 in New Delhi, India
Population: 16,753,235
400 people listed on IMDb
5. Bai Ling
Actress | Red Corner
Bai Ling is recognized for unbridled freedom and creativity, Bai Ling has become undoubtedly one of the world's most diverse and captivating actresses! Born in the city of Cheng Du in southern China, Bai Ling began her career at age of 14. She enlisted In the Chinese People's Liberation Army, where...
Born: October 10 in Chengdu, China
Population: 16,044,700
41 people listed on IMDb
6. Ilayda Alisan
Actress | Çukur
Ilayda Alisan was born on February 26, 1996 in Istanbul, Turkey. She is an actress, known for The Pit (2016), You Like (2022) and Masumiyet (2021).
Born: February 26, 1996 in Istanbul, Turkey
Population: 15,519,267
2,632 people listed on IMDb
7. Kumail Nanjiani
Actor | The Big Sick
Kumail Nanjiani was born on May 2, 1978 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. He is an actor and writer, known for The Big Sick (2017), Life as We Know It (2010) and Stuber (2019). He has been married to Emily V. Gordon since July 14, 2007.
Born: May 2, 1978 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Population: 14,910,352
48 people listed on IMDb
8. John Woo
Director | Ying hung boon sik
Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios. He directed his first feature in 1973 and has been a prolific director ever since, working in a wide variety of genres before A Better Tomorrow ...
Born: May 1, 1946 in Guangzhou, China
Population: 14,498,400
66 people listed on IMDb
9. Robert Lee
Actor | Mind Your Language
Chinese-born character actor Robert Ya Fu Lee first came to the United Kingdom as an international student attending Trinity College, Cambridge. He started acting at the behest of his friends, and quickly became a regular fixture of British TV and motion pictures. His appearances include You Only ...
Born: 1913 in Tianjin, China
Population: 13,866,009
77 people listed on IMDb
10. Hiroyuki Sanada
Actor | Tasogare Seibei
Hiroyuki Sanada was born on October 12, 1960 in Tokyo. He made his film debut when he was 5 in Rokyoku komori-uta (1965) (Shin'ichi Chiba played the lead role.) His father died when he was 11. He joined Japan Action Club, organized & run by Sonny Chiba, when he was 12. He 1st became famous as an ...
Born: October 12, 1960 in Tokyo, Japan
Population: 13,515,271
3,184 people listed on IMDb
11. Tina Ivlev
Actress | Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Tina Ivlev is an American actress best known for her role as Nightsister Merrin in the hit action-adventure video games "Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order" and "Star Wars Jedi: Survivor." Ivlev played Nightsister Merrin, the last surviving Nightsister on Dathomir, providing her likeness as well as full ...
Born: June 10 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Population: 13,200,000
1,211 people listed on IMDb
12. Kai Xu
Actor | Lie Huo Jun Xiao
Xu Kai is a Chinese actor and model. In 2013, he won the still model group championship at the national finals of the China International Model Competition held in Guangzhou, and he debuted as a model. In 2016, he signed a contract with Huanyu Film, an entertainment company owned by Yu Zheng, and ...
Born: March 5, 1995 in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Population: 12,528,300
11 people listed on IMDb
13. Merle Oberon
Actress | Wuthering Heights
Estelle Merle Thompson was born in India on February 19, 1911 of Welsh and Ceylonese (now Sri Lankan) descent. She was educated in that country until the age of 17, when she left for London. She began her career in British films with mostly forgettable roles or bit parts. She appeared in an ...
Born: February 19, 1911 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
Population: 12,478,447
1,082 people listed on IMDb
14. Alice Braga
Actress | I Am Legend
Alice Braga Moraes born April 15, 1983 is a Brazilian actress. She has appeared in several Brazilian films, most notably as Angélica in 2002's highly acclaimed City of God and as Karina in 2005's Lower City. She came to international prominence after appearing opposite Will Smith in I Am Legend (...
Born: April 15, 1983 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Population: 12,252,023
2,291 people listed on IMDb
15. Bibi Nshimba
Actress | Ben and Becca
Born Bibi Nshimba on August 18th, in Kinshasa, Zaire now The Democratic Republic of Congo. At the young age of 3 while in pre-school, she would participate in all the school plays and soon fell in love with performing. It was due to her love for theater and cinema that her parents signed her up in ...
Born: August 18, 1976 in Kinshasa, Zaire
Population: 11,462,000
16 people listed on IMDb
16. Gabrielle Drake
Actress | Au Pair Girls
Gabrielle Drake was born March 30, 1944 in Lahore, Pakistan. Her father worked in an import/export company or as an engineer and she spent her first 8 years travelling around Burma, India, and the Orient. The family returned to England when Gabrielle was eight years old, after which they moved back...
Born: March 30, 1944 in Lahore, Punjab, British India [now Pakistan]
Population: 11,126,000
27 people listed on IMDb
17. Liu Yifei
Actress | Mulan
Crystal Liu, better known by her stage name Liu Yifei, was born in Wuhan, on August 25, 1987. She began modeling at 8. She was trained in singing, dancing & the piano. She moved to the U.S. at 10 w/ her mom, where she lived for 4 years. She returned to China in June 2002 to pursue a modeling & ...
Born: August 25, 1987 in Wuhan, China
Population: 10,892,900
35 people listed on IMDb
18. Carina Lau
Actress | Di Renjie zhi Tongtian diguo
Carina Lau moved to Hong Kong with her family at the age of 14 and at the the time could not speak the local Cantonese and was often teased by other people the "Mainland Girl". She would eventually gave her best effort to learn the language and then was re-accepted at the TVB actors training ...
Born: December 8, 1964 in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Population: 10,721,700
17 people listed on IMDb
19. Simu Liu
Actor | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Simu is a Chinese-Canadian actor who won a Game Changer Award and People's Choice Award for his role as Shang-Chi in the Marvel movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). Before his leading role in a Marvel movie, he played Jung Kim on the CBC sitcom Kim's Convenience (2016). He is ...
Born: April 19, 1989 in Harbin, China
Population: 10,635,971
66 people listed on IMDb
20. Iko Uwais
Actor | Serbuan maut 2: Berandal
Iko Uwais was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Maisyaroh and Mustapha Kamaluddin. His grandfather, H. Achmad Bunawar, was a master of silat, an Indonesian traditional martial art, and founded a silat school. Iko himself has been learning silat since he was 10 years old. He became National Champion in...
Born: February 12, 1983 in Jakarta, Indonesia
Population: 10,154,134
266 people listed on IMDb
21. Steven Yeun
Actor | Minari
Steven Yeun was born in Seoul, South Korea, to June and Je Yeun. His family first immigrated to Canada and stayed there for one year, and then moved to the U.S. He has a brother named Brian. He began acting while at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, MI, where he studied Psychology as a major (BS in ...
Born: December 21, 1983 in Seoul, South Korea
Population: 10,013,781
381 people listed on IMDb
22. Mena Massoud
Actor | Aladdin
Mena was born in Cairo, Egypt and raised in Markham, Ontario, Canada. He attended the University of Toronto for Neuroscience before transferring to Ryerson University's notable theater program and graduating with a BFA in acting. He got his first big break starring in ABC Spark & Teen Nick's ...
Born: September 17, 1991 in Cairo, Egypt
Population: 9,500,000
505 people listed on IMDb
23. Cheh Chang
Director | Bao chou
Chang Cheh was the leading Martial Arts director in Hong Kong in the 1970s, now with close to 100 films to his name. His has influenced other directors such as John Woo and Liu Chiau Liang, and made famous such Hong Kong stars as Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Fu Sheng and Lung Ti. Chang has declared ...
Born: February 10, 1923 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Population: 9,468,000
31 people listed on IMDb
24. Maite Perroni
Actress | Triada
Maite Perroni is one of the most prominent and successful artists in the Latin World. In 2020, she became the first Latin actress starring three shows each of them in the most important streaming services worldwide: Key's Game (Prime Video), Accidently Heirs (Claro Video) and Dark Desire (Netflix).
...
Born: March 9, 1983 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Population: 9,209,944
1,177 people listed on IMDb
25. Ali Abbasi
Director | Gräns
Ali Abbasi was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran. He is a director and writer, known for Border (2018), Holy Spider (2022) and The Last of Us (2023).
Born: 1981 in Tehran, Iran
Population: 9,033,003
670 people listed on IMDb
26. Tian Jing
Actress | Kong: Skull Island
Jing Tian graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy and Beijing Film Academy, Department of Chinese Film and Television.
In 2006, Jing Tian released the music EP Who are you with King Sweet music.
Tian starred in 13 episodes of the TV show Yi ge nü ren de shi shi (2009) in 2010. Her acting career...
Born: July 21, 1988 in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Population: 8,989,000
36 people listed on IMDb
27. Dana Abraham
Actor | Neon Lights
Bengali-Canadian, Dana Abraham is a multifaceted talent in the entertainment industry, excelling as an actor, writer and producer. Known for his role as a writer and actor, in the acclaimed film "Neon Lights," where he starred alongside Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy), Dana showcased his acting ...
Born: December 4, 1990 in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Population: 8,906,039
163 people listed on IMDb
28. Nathalie Kelley
Actress | The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Nathalie Kelley is an actress of Indigenous Quechua descent, most recently starring in the hit series Dynasty and The Baker and the Beauty, which is now on Netflix. With a background in social science and policy, Nathalie strives to use her gifts as a storyteller to tell stories that educate and ...
Born: October 5, 1984 in Lima, Peru
Population: 8,894,000
253 people listed on IMDb
29. Suki Waterhouse
Actress | Daisy Jones & The Six
Alice Suki Waterhouse (born 5 January 1992) is an English actress, model and entrepreneur.
She was born in Hammersmith, London and was raised in Chiswick, London, the daughter of Elizabeth, a cancer care nurse, and Norman Waterhouse, a plastic surgeon. She has a brother named Charlie, and two ...
Born: January 5, 1992 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Population: 8,825,001
13,362 people on IMDb
30. Natasha Lyonne
Actress | Orange Is the New Black
Natasha Lyonne is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated producer, actor, writer, and director.
Lyonne co-created Netflix series Russian Doll (2019), which received three Emmy awards, a total of 13 Emmy nominations including Comedy Series and Lead Actress for Lyonne, a Gotham Award nomination, and a ...
Born: April 4, 1979 in New York City, New York, USA
Population: 8,804,190
13,158 people on IMDb
31. Bo Hu
Writer | Da xiang xidi erzuo
Born in Jinan, Shangdong, China, He studied Film Directing at the Beijing Film Academy. Following two short films and several novels, An Elephant Sitting Still was his first feature-length film. This is a four-hour portrait of a society of egoists. Tragically, it will also be the final chapter in ...
Born: 1988 in Jinan, Shangdong, China
Population: 8,700,000
37 people on IMDb
32. Anushka Sharma
Actress | Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Anushka Sharma was born on 1 May 1988 in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. Her father, Colonel Ajay Kumar Sharma, is an army officer, and her mother, Ashima Sharma, is a homemaker. Her father is a native of Uttar Pradesh, while her mother is a Garhwali. Her elder brother is film producer Karnesh Sharma, who ...
Born: May 1, 1988 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Population: 8,443,675
93 people on IMDb
33. Hou Ng
Writer | Bai fen shuang xiong
Hou Ng was born on August 11, 1947 in Dongguan, Guangdong, Republic of China. He was a writer, known for The Rascal Billionaire (1978), Angels and Devils (1983) and Love and Passion (1982). He died on December 16, 2013 in Hong Kong.
Born: August 11, 1947 in Dongguan, Guangdong, Republic of China
Population: 8,342,500
4 people on IMDb
34. Tao Ruspoli
Director | Fix
Italian American documentary filmmaker, photographer and flamenco guitar player. Born in Thailand and raised in Rome and Los Angeles. Son of Dado Ruspoli and Debra Berger. B.A. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. Founder of The Los Angeles Filmmakers' Cooperative (LAFCO). ...
Born: November 7, 1975 in Bangkok, Thailand
Population: 8,305,218
142 people on IMDb
35. Gong Li
Actress | Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia
Born in Shenyang, grew up in Jinan, the daughter of an economics professor. Loved music from childhood, and dreamed of a singing career. After failing to gain entrance to China's top music school in 1985, applied for and was admitted to the Central Drama Academy in Beijing, from which she graduated...
Born: December 31, 1965 in Shenyang, China
Population: 8,294,000
64 people on IMDb
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