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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 1760s Clear ×
Alexander von Humboldt
1769 - 1859
Johann Gottfried Schadow
1764 - 1850
Carl Ludwig Willdenow
1765 - 1812
Daniel Steibelt
1765 - 1823
Dorothea von Schlegel
1764 - 1839
Henriette Herz
1764 - 1847
Friedrich Ancillon
1767 - 1837
Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf
1762 - 1823
Paul Thiébault
1769 - 1846
Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert
1769 - 1824
Saul Ascher
1767 - 1822
Paul Erman
1764 - 1851
August Ferdinand Bernhardi
1769 - 1820
Lazarus Bendavid
1762 - 1832
Karl Spazier
1761 - 1805
Amalie Beer
1767 - 1854
Valentin Rose (pharmacologist)
1762 - 1807
Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres
1768 - 1809
Carl Friedrich Heinrich, Graf von Wylich und Lottum
1767 - 1841
Jean Sigismond Ehrenreich de Redern Bernsdorf
1761 - 1841
Ferdinand Collmann
1762 - 1837
Jean-Baptiste Blache
1765 - 1834
Sara Grotthuis
1763 - 1828
Johann Gottfried Kiesewetter
1766 - 1819
Franziska Stading
1763 - 1836
August Dörffurt
1767 - 1825
Georg Reinbeck
1766 - 1849
Suzanne Chodowiecka
1763 - 1819
Karl Friedrich von Holtzendorff
1764 - 1828
Johann Gottfried Niedlich
1766 - 1837
Otto Friedrich Ludwig von Schack
1763 - 1815
Charlotte Wilhelmina Franziska Brandes
1765 - 1788
Joel Löwe
1762 - 1802
Sara Levy
1761 - 1854
Heinrich von Béguelin
1765 - 1818
Recha Meyer
1767 - 1831
Karl Friedrich Krüger
1765 - 1828
Wilhelm Uhden
1763 - 1835
Johann Friedrich Bolt
1769 - 1836
Friedrich von Eisenhart
1769 - 1839
Karl Bernhard Wessely
1768 - 1826
Wilhelmine Karoline von Wobeser
1769 - 1807
Johann Wilhelm Lombard
1767 - 1812
Wilhelm Jury
1763 - 1829
Johann Ludwig Formey
1766 - 1823
Johann Wilhelm von Wiebel
1767 - 1847
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Krusemarck
1767 - 1822
August Friedrich Mouson
1768 - 1837
Leopold Ludwig Müller
1767 - 1838
Franz Daniel Friedrich Wadzeck
1762 - 1823
Johann Ernst Schickler
1761 - 1801
Caroline Demmer
1764 - 1813
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Thym
1768 - 1803
Ludwig von Colomb
1767 - 1831
Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück
1762 - 1834
Jeannette Papin
1761 - 1835
Georg Jacob Decker der Jüngere
1765 - 1819
Benedict Heinrich Bendix
1768 - 1828
Friedrich Gottlieb Schadow
1761 - 1831
Johann Carl Ludewig Gerhard
1768 - 1835
Heinrich August Fabricius
1764 - 1821
Johann Friedrich von Koenen
1767 - 1810
Wilhelm Jakob Wippel
1760 - 1834
Friedrich Troschel
1765 - 1832
Elisabeth Charlotte Amélie (Lisette) Hainchelin �
1765 - 1815
Karl Ludwig Böhlendorff
1767 - 1855
Gottlieb Lehmann
1762 - 1824
Friedrich Hansmann
1769 - 1836
Wulf Christopher von Ahlefeldt
1761 - 1840
Johann Ludwig Markhoff
1761 - 1831
Louis Balan
1769 - 1807
Friedrich Emanuel Marx
1767 - 1826