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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 1790s Clear ×
William I, German Emperor
1797 - 1888
Frederick William IV of Prussia
1795 - 1861
Giacomo Meyerbeer
1791 - 1864
Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia)
1798 - 1860
Philipp Veit
1793 - 1877
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands
1797 - 1881
Francis Lieber
1798 - 1872
Ludwig Rellstab
1799 - 1860
Johann Heinrich von Mädler
1794 - 1874
Wilhelm Beer
1797 - 1850
Heinrich Rose
1795 - 1864
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1794–1863)
1794 - 1863
Friedrich Eduard Beneke
1798 - 1854
Gustav Rose
1798 - 1873
Eduard Gans
1797 - 1839
Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach
1795 - 1877
Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia
1796 - 1850
Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach
1790 - 1861
Bonaventura Genelli
1798 - 1868
Eduard Magnus
1799 - 1872
August Wilhelm Bach
1796 - 1869
Hans Ferdinand Massmann
1797 - 1874
Ferdinand Deppe
1795 - 1861
Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg
1792 - 1850
Karl Gottlob Zumpt
1792 - 1849
Ludwig Bledow
1795 - 1846
Maurice Schlesinger
1798 - 1871
Johann Ludwig Casper
1796 - 1864
Dorothea Tieck
1799 - 1841
Ludwig Riedel
1790 - 1861
Julius Schoppe
1795 - 1868
Heinrich Alexander von Arnim
1798 - 1861
Johannes Veit
1790 - 1854
Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold
1799 - 1858
Ernst Eiselen
1793 - 1846
Helene Liebmann
1795 - 1835
Wilhelm von Radziwill
1797 - 1870
Karl August Devrient
1797 - 1872
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici
1790 - 1859
August Kavel
1798 - 1860
Caroline Ridderstolpe
1793 - 1878
Emilie Ortlöpp
1791 - 1843
August von Stockhausen
1791 - 1861
Leopold von Ledebur (Historiker)
1799 - 1877
Heinrich August Wilhelm Stolze
1798 - 1867
Christian Gottlieb Cantian
1794 - 1866
Gustav Nicolai
1795 - 1850
Johann Ludwig Urban Blesson
1790 - 1861
Heinrich Soussmann
1796 - 1848
Gustav Parthey
1798 - 1872
Franz von Elsholtz
1791 - 1872
Carl von La Roche
1794 - 1884
Friedrich Wilhelm Noë
1798 - 1858
Wilhelm Bornemann (Kronsyndikus)
1798 - 1864
Ludwig von Massow
1794 - 1859
Wilhelm Telle
1798 - 1862
Ludwig Immanuel Magnus
1790 - 1861
Auguste Crelinger
1795 - 1865
Johann George Hossauer
1794 - 1874
Louise Henry (Malerin)
1798 - 1839
Carl August Buchholz (Orgelbauer)
1796 - 1884
Alexander Mendelssohn
1798 - 1871
Adolf von Thadden-Trieglaff
1796 - 1882
Eduard Jerrmann
1798 - 1859
Eduard Vieweg
1797 - 1869
Carl Wilhelm von Lancizolle
1796 - 1871
Carl Emil Gedike
1797 - 1867
Georg Benjamin Mendelssohn
1794 - 1874
Franz August Eichmann
1793 - 1879
Eduard Pistorius
1796 - 1862
Gustav von Griesheim
1798 - 1854
Alexander von Uhden
1798 - 1878
Pierre Louis Ravené
1793 - 1861
Eduard von Höpfner
1797 - 1858
Eduard Stützel
1795 - 1862
Louis Friedrich Sachse
1798 - 1877
Karl Wilhelm Mayer
1795 - 1868
Wilhelm Rose
1792 - 1867
Hans Wilhelm von Schack
1791 - 1866
Karl Töpfer
1792 - 1871
Johann Jakob Kirchhoff
1796 - 1848
Friedrich von Brühl
1791 - 1859
Eduard von Schlichting
1794 - 1874
Carl Julius Fintelmann
1794 - 1866
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Knoblauch
1793 - 1859
Joseph Fürst (Schriftsteller)
1794 - 1859
Albert August Wilhelm Deetz
1798 - 1859
William O’Swald
1798 - 1859
Karl Beckmann (Maler)
1799 - 1859
Caroline Bernstein
1797 - 1838
Leopold von Caprivi
1797 - 1865
Friedrich Unzelmann
1797 - 1854
Valentin von Massow (Generalleutnant)
1793 - 1854
Carl Wilhelm Eysenhardt
1794 - 1825
August Karl Hambuch
1797 - 1834
Johannes Ludwig Leopold Mund
1791 - 1831
Wilhelmine von Wrochem
1798 - 1839
Gustav von Le Coq
1799 - 1880
Gustav Jördens
1790 - 1834
Caroline Rellstab (Sängerin, 1794)
1794 - 1813
Ludwig Ferdinand Pauli
1793 - 1841
Friedrich Dams
1799 - 1877
Louis Henri Fontane
1796 - 1867
Ludwig Emil Mathis
1797 - 1874
Ferdinand von Kusserow
1792 - 1855
Ferdinand Zenker
1792 - 1864
August Wilhelm von Schack
1793 - 1864
Karl Friedrich Baudius
1796 - 1860
Johanna Göcking
1791 - 1843
Wilhelm Stich
1794 - 1824
Jette Solmar
1794 - 1889
Carl Eduard Moewes
1799 - 1851
Daniel Friedrich Gottlob Teichert
1796 - 1853
Wilhelm von Wentzel
1791 - 1868
Johann Gottlieb August Naumann
1799 - 1870
Moritz Daniel Volkmar
1792 - 1864
Georg Heinrich Bürde
1796 - 1865
Theodor von Dechen
1794 - 1860
Eduard Wolff (Mediziner)
1794 - 1878
Carl Friedrich Schmidt (Generalleutnant)
1792 - 1874
Gustav Eduard Dellschau
1798 - 1863
Karl von Kropff
1793 - 1872
August Hamann
1798 - 1869
Johann Ernst Gustav von Roehl
1799 - 1867
Ferdinand von Kaphengst
1795 - 1854
Minna Apranzow
1790 - 1844
Wilhelm von Schmidt (General, 1799)
1799 - 1867
Gustav von Graeve
1792 - 1876
Wilhelm von Fircks (General, 1794)
1794 - 1862
Adolf von Schlüsser
1793 - 1863
Leopold Neander von Petersheyden
1790 - 1863
Karl von Pannwitz
1798 - 1859
Elias Friedrich Wilhelm Blumenthal
1790 - 1859
Karl von Roehl (General, 1795)
1795 - 1885
Karoline Balkow
1794 - 1872
Wilhelm von Linger
1794 - 1871
David Emilius Heinrich Koblank
1791 - 1864
Pierre Frédéric Charles Baerwald
1791 - 1871
Friedrich Wilhelm Krahn
1799 - 1883