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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 1850s Clear ×
Max Galster
1852 - 1928
Martin Röder
1851 - 1895
Max Stahlschmidt
1854 - 1918
Otto Sillier
1857 - 1925
Johannes Simon
1855 - 1929
Carl von Fidler
1856 - 1927
Henry Neßler
1851 - 1911
Franz Wüerst
1854 - 1915
Georg Michaelis (Eisenbahner)
1852 - 1912
Waldemar von Gregory
1854 - 1932
Helene Pintsch
1857 - 1923
Friedrich Dillges
1852 - 1912
Walther G. Wever
1859 - 1922
Otto Lange (Klavierbauer)
1856 - 1929
Felix Lewald
1855 - 1914
Julius Goldiner
1852 - 1914
Ernst Heinrich Alfred Schlitte
1854 - 1913
Reinhold Finck von Finckenstein
1858 - 1922
Adolf Wiebe (Richter)
1856 - 1929
Oskar Arke
1854 - 1926
Richard Steifensand
1853 - 1907
Günther von Hertzberg
1855 - 1937
Julius Eyben
1850 - 1902
Fr. Muehlenpfordt
1858 - 1917
Max von Pape
1851 - 1926
Bernhard Knoblauch
1851 - 1927
Karl Schilling (Regierungspräsident)
1858 - 1931
Carl Greiner (Schauspieler)
1859 - 1927
Oskar Mulack
1859 - 1925
Paul von Herrmann
1857 - 1921
Max Obier
Born 1859