52.5167° N, 13.3817° E
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 1750s Clear ×
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange
1751 - 1820
Carl Friedrich Zelter
1758 - 1832
Franz Karl Achard
1753 - 1821
Landgravine Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757–1830)
1757 - 1830
Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre
1755 - 1821
Fanny von Arnstein
1758 - 1818
Johann Friedrich Unger
1753 - 1804
Philipp Friedrich Theodor Meckel
1755 - 1803
Abel Burja
1752 - 1816
Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach
1757 - 1813
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe der Ältere
1759 - 1835
Henriette von Crayen
1755 - 1832
Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann
1757 - 1817
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee
1754 - 1821
Wilhelm Christhelf Sigmund Mylius
1753 - 1827
August Wilhelm von Bismarck
1750 - 1783
Otto von Voß
1755 - 1823
David Schickler
1755 - 1818
August Franz Globensky
1754 - 1830
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst von Knobelsdorff
1752 - 1820
Susanne von Bandemer
1751 - 1828
Peter Ludwig Lütke
1759 - 1831
Karl Friedrich Zimdar
1753 - 1792
Johann Philipp von Rohde
1759 - 1834
Friedrich Ludwig Joseph Fischbach
1752 - 1825
Ludwig Wilhelm August von Gerlach
1751 - 1809
Sabbattia Joseph Wolff
1757 - 1832
Isaak Daniel Itzig
1750 - 1806
Friedrich Wilhelm Bossann
1756 - 1813
Jacques Ravené
1751 - 1828
Wilhelm Sello
1753 - 1822
Johann Georg Wilhelm Landré
1755 - 1818
Johann Hubert Anton Forst
1756 - 1823
Leopold Matthieu
1750 - 1778
Carl von Brauchitsch
1755 - 1839
Anton Friedrich König (Medailleur)
1756 - 1838
Friedrich August Leopold Karl von Schwerin
1750 - 1836
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Fiebig
1755 - 1822
Karl Friedrich Peter von Brockhausen
1751 - 1830
Wilhelm Georg von Schack
1751 - 1827
Johann Christian Wilhelm von Lentken
1757 - 1808
Justus Ehrenreich Sello
1758 - 1818