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BERLIN
Most Famous People Born in Berlin, Germany
- Notable people
- 15,664
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- Median birth year
- 1921
- Most distinctive
- Author 3.6×
A city where the 20th century happened twice. Berlin's notables are heavily clustered between the 1880s and the 1930s, then again from the 1960s onward — a shape that maps almost exactly onto Weimar collapse, division, and reunification. Authors, academics, chemists, physicists, and mathematicians dominate the older half; the younger half tilts toward actors, painters, and the film and historian trades of a rebuilt European capital.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Berlin during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Berlin Is Known For
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Actor is Berlin's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (1,953).
Berlin over-indexes on author — 3.6× the global rate.
Berlin under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Berlin's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Sports
- Art & Design
- Other
- Filtered to 1730s Clear ×
Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
1733 - 1811
Caspar Friedrich Wolff
1735 - 1794
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia
1730 - 1813
Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow
1734 - 1805
Johann Friedrich Hennert
1733 - 1813
Johann Christoph Frisch
1738 - 1815
Georg David Matthieu
1737 - 1778
Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer
1735 - 1811
Johann Friedrich Zückert
1737 - 1778
Louis de Beausobre
1730 - 1783
Johann Christoph Schultze
1733 - 1813
Karl Wilhelm Hennert
1738 - 1800
Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg
1739 - 1801
Wilhelm Friedrich Karl von Schwerin
1739 - 1802
Jean Pierre Erman
1735 - 1814
Johann Georg Rosenberg
1739 - 1808
Carl Heinrich Nicolai
1739 - 1823
Paul Tremo
1733 - 1810
Friedrich Zacharias Saltzmann
1731 - 1801
Gottlieb Ludwig von Beville
1734 - 1810
Wilhelm Friedrich Schenck von Flechtingen
1730 - 1811
Heinrich von der Lahr
1734 - 1816
Georg Ludwig Egidius von Köhler
1734 - 1811
August Friedrich Pallas
1731 - 1812
Christian Friedrich August von Moller
1734 - 1802
Mose ben Abraham Fränkel
1739 - 1812
Friedrich Anton August Lohrmann
1735 - 1800
Gottfried Ludwig Matthias von Hartmann
1738 - 1807
August Gotthilf Naumann
1736 - 1794