53.5497° N, 9.9319° E

ALTONA

Most Famous People Born in Altona, Germany

Notable people
374
Peak decade
1900s
Median birth year
1873
Most distinctive
Merchant 24.5×

Standouts

Notable Births by Decade

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What Altona Is Known For

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Politician is Altona's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (56).

Altona over-indexes on merchant24.5× the global rate.

  1. Politician56
  2. Painter40
  3. Writer22
  4. Actor20
  5. Architect10
  6. Academic10
  7. Author9
  8. Lawyer9
  1. Merchant824.5×
  2. Bank58.2×
  3. Painter404.1×
  4. Botanist53.3×
  5. Architect103.0×
  6. Author92.8×
  7. Academic102.6×
  8. Missing52.0×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Altona's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

1650170017501800185019001950
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0001 ASTRONOMER

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

1793 - 1864

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0019 MUSIC

Siegfried Dehn

1799 - 1858

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0028 PAINTER

Ernst Meyer (painter)

1797 - 1861

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0038 INDÉPENDANCE

George Jarvis (Philhellene)

1797 - 1828

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0054 WRITER

Heinrich Smidt

1798 - 1867

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0061 PAINTER

Johann August Krafft (Maler)

1798 - 1829

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0064 WRITER

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff

1799 - 1851

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0087 PHYSICIAN

Ludwig August Struve

1795 - 1828

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0104 PAINTER

Johan Bravo

1797 - 1876

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0108 SOZIALREFORM

Charlotte Paulsen

1797 - 1862

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0121 WRITER

Heinrich Witt (Kaufmann)

1799 - 1892

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0136 JOURNALIST

Carl Wilhelm Asher

1798 - 1864

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0153 KAUFMAN

Georg Ernst Harzen

1790 - 1863

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0160 STARB

George Hempleman

1799 - 1880

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0189 POLITICIAN

Wilhelm Hirschfeld

1795 - 1874

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0270 JUDGE

Karl Benedict von Schirach

1790 - 1864

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0277 PAINTER

Christian Heinrich Hanson

1790 - 1863

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0280 SINGER

Wilhelm Bröckelmann (Schauspieler, 1797)

1797 - 1854

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0329 KAUFMAN

Jean Jacques Cuny

1795 - 1843

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0332 BUSINESS

Günther Ludwig Stuhlmann

1797 - 1872

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0368 LAWYER

Ernst Poel

1796 - 1867

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