[UWconservative]

Many, in fact. Look at the Greek city states. Samos produced Pythagoras, Aesop, Epicurus, Aristarchus, and Theodorus.

On an island that currently has 54k people.

[wideawake]

Historians estimate that the free population of Athens in the 5th century BC was about 15-20 thousand. Maybe 40,000 for Renaissance Florence.

The population of England during the Elizabethan Age was probably 1.5-2 million with a London population of 150,000.