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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 1870s Clear ×
Gustav Stresemann
1878 - 1929
Gabriele Münter
1877 - 1962
Bruno Walter
1876 - 1962
Max Schreck
1879 - 1936
Constantin Carathéodory
1873 - 1950
Erich Mühsam
1878 - 1934
Hans Luther
1879 - 1962
Ernst Zermelo
1871 - 1953
Edmund Landau
1877 - 1938
William Stern (psychologist)
1871 - 1938
Leo Frobenius
1873 - 1938
Otto Wels
1873 - 1939
Adolf Windaus
1876 - 1959
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
1873 - 1962
Else Ury
1877 - 1943
Leonor Michaelis
1875 - 1949
Herwarth Walden
1878 - 1941
Alice Salomon
1872 - 1948
Rosa Valetti
1878 - 1937
August Endell
1871 - 1925
Herman Nohl
1879 - 1960
Carl Froelich
1875 - 1953
Karl Straube
1873 - 1950
Eugen Burg
1871 - 1944
Paul Graener
1872 - 1944
Hermann Struck
1876 - 1944
Oskar Fried
1871 - 1941
Paul Reinecke
1872 - 1958
Otto von Stülpnagel
1878 - 1948
Fritz Graebner
1877 - 1934
Georg Misch
1878 - 1965
Georg Friedrich Nicolai
1874 - 1964
Leopold Andrian
1875 - 1951
Adolf Brand
1874 - 1945
Rudolf Schlechter
1872 - 1925
Paul Otto
1878 - 1943
Waldemar Erfurth
1879 - 1971
Vladimir Shchuko
1878 - 1939
Max Davidson
1875 - 1950
Walther Bauersfeld
1879 - 1959
Hans Reissner
1874 - 1967
Jakob Tiedtke
1875 - 1960
Julius Falkenstein
1879 - 1933
Hermann Vallentin
1872 - 1945
Georg Hermann
1871 - 1943
Carl Hans Lody
1877 - 1914
Rudolf Nelson
1878 - 1960
Hedwig Wangel
1875 - 1961
Helene Bresslau Schweitzer
1879 - 1957
Marie Elisabeth Lüders
1878 - 1966
Hermann Harms
1870 - 1942
Wilhelm Biltz
1877 - 1943
Arthur Werner
1877 - 1967
Hermine Körner
1878 - 1960
Hans von Rosenberg
1874 - 1937
Maria Marc
1876 - 1955
Leopold von Ledebur
1876 - 1955
Arthur Nussbaum
1877 - 1964
Eric Gutkind
1877 - 1965
Martin Wolff
1872 - 1953
Agathe Lasch
1879 - 1942
Franz Bracht
1877 - 1933
Walther Bensemann
1873 - 1934
Ernst Gehrcke
1878 - 1960
Ulrich Hübner
1872 - 1932
Max Lewandowsky
1876 - 1916
Bruno H. Bürgel
1875 - 1948
Richard Kolkwitz
1873 - 1956
Oskar Eberhard Ulbrich
1879 - 1952
Elsa Neumann
1872 - 1902
Georg Bernhard
1875 - 1944
Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner
1874 - 1930
Wilhelm Abegg
1876 - 1951
Robert René Kuczynski
1876 - 1947
Helene von Nostitz
1878 - 1944
Alexander Baerwald
1877 - 1930
James Goldschmidt
1874 - 1940
Otto Eugen Schulz
1874 - 1936
Erich Everth
1878 - 1934
Emil Rameau
1878 - 1957
Eilhard Alfred Mitscherlich
1874 - 1956
Bruno Ahrends
1878 - 1948
Selmar Aschheim
1878 - 1965
Hans Vollmer (historien de l'art)
1878 - 1969
Erich Eyck
1878 - 1964
Bill Drews
1870 - 1938
Fritz Manteuffel
1875 - 1941
Hans Sydow
1879 - 1946
Hans Curschmann
1875 - 1950
Artur Pappenheim
1870 - 1916
Karl Foerster
1874 - 1970
Erich Kaiser-Titz
1875 - 1928
Lina Abarbanell
1879 - 1963
Theodor Sternberg
1878 - 1950
Albert Reiss
1870 - 1940
Otto Ackermann (painter)
1872 - 1953
Alexander Lion
1870 - 1962
Adolf Gärtner
1870 - 1958
Walther Horn
1871 - 1939
Arthur von Gerlach
1876 - 1925
Otto Lehmann-Russbüldt
1873 - 1964
Siegfried von Kardorff
1873 - 1945
Gertrud Grunow
1870 - 1944
Walter Lehmann (ethnologist)
1878 - 1939
Georg Hirschfeld
1873 - 1942
Alice Berend
1875 - 1938
Alfred Gerasch
1877 - 1955
Hermann Martens
1877 - 1916
Max Marcuse
1877 - 1963
Otto von Feldmann
1873 - 1945
Gustav Schuft
1878 - 1948
Alfons Anker
1872 - 1958
Ernst Heymann
1870 - 1946
Käthe Loewenthal
1878 - 1942
Richard Girulatis
1878 - 1963
Friedrich Franz Friedmann
1876 - 1953
Ottó Hellmich
1874 - 1937
Artur Landsberger
1876 - 1933
Victor Auburtin
1870 - 1928
Ernst Pfuhl
1876 - 1940
Max Naumann
1875 - 1939
Clara Porges
1879 - 1963
Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth
1874 - 1957
Arthur Haseloff
1872 - 1955
Georg Hilmar
1876 - 1936
Reinhold Quaatz
1876 - 1953
Immanuel Friedlaender
1871 - 1948
Walter Heitz
1878 - 1944
Richard Carl Gustav Hennig
1874 - 1951
Hans Werckmeister
1879 - 1929
Arthur Eloesser
1870 - 1938
Otto Berg (scientist)
1873 - 1939
Udo Steinberg
1877 - 1919
Ernst Heilemann
1870 - 1936
Mathilde Jacob
1873 - 1943
Rudolf Helm
1872 - 1966
Karl Stargardt
1875 - 1927
Johannes Palaschko
1877 - 1932
Kurt Wegener
1878 - 1964
Emil Ziehl
1873 - 1939
Gustav Casmir
1874 - 1910
Else Heims
1878 - 1958
Otto Schmidt-Hofer
1873 - 1925
Ernst Rodenwaldt
1878 - 1965
Walter Kirchhoff
1879 - 1951
Ernst Ruhmer
1878 - 1913
Emma Carus
1879 - 1927
Ernst Bresslau
1877 - 1935
Hugo Rüster
Born 1872
Georg Schlesinger (Hochschullehrer)
1874 - 1949
Hans Lietzmann (Maler)
1872 - 1955
Kurt Regling
1876 - 1935
Raoul Richter
1871 - 1912
Fritz Curschmann (Geograph)
1874 - 1946
Arnold Rieck
1876 - 1924
Lu Märten
1879 - 1970
Arnold Kutzinski
1879 - 1956
Viktor Schmieden
1874 - 1945
Siegfried Dessauer
1874 - 1945
Rudolf Rothe
1873 - 1942
Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel
1876 - 1945
Gian Bundi
1872 - 1936
Werner Weisbach
1873 - 1953
Georg Belwe
1878 - 1954
Hans Hirschfeld (hematologist)
1873 - 1944
Georg Minde-Pouet
1871 - 1950
Robert Zuppke
1879 - 1957
Antonie Jaeckel
1876 - 1960
Edmund Fürst
1874 - 1955
Harry Maync
1874 - 1947
George Ludwig Zuelzer
1870 - 1949
Hans Wassmann
1873 - 1932
Arthur Liebert
1878 - 1946
Paul Eichelmann
1879 - 1938
Waldemar Abegg
1873 - 1961
Carl Galle
1872 - 1963
Alfred Dengler
1874 - 1944
Wilhelm von Scholz
1874 - 1969
Franz Ludwig
1876 - 1927
Rudolf Marcuse
1878 - 1940
Erwin Kreuzer
1878 - 1953
Fritz Weigert
1876 - 1947
Gustav Wahl
1877 - 1947
Luise Heilborn-Körbitz
1874 - 1961
Siegfried Ascher
1877 - 1962
Erich Gritzner
1874 - 1963
Franz Dülberg
1873 - 1934
Otto Goritz
1872 - 1929
Bruno Eichgrün
1877 - 1937
Guido Gialdini
Born 1878
Willy Oskar Dressler
1876 - 1954
Alfred Kalähne
1874 - 1946
Karl Janisch
1870 - 1946
Detlev von Arnim-Kröchlendorff
1878 - 1947
Nicky Arnstein
1879 - 1965
Ludwig Bernhard
1875 - 1935
Edmund Hildebrandt
1872 - 1939
Wilfried von Loewenfeld
1879 - 1946
Hermann Schramm
1871 - 1951
Karl Kroner
1878 - 1954
Ferdinand Blumenthal
1870 - 1941
Curt Adam
1875 - 1941
Ludolf Malten
1879 - 1969
Georg Schories
1874 - 1934
Carl James Bühring
1871 - 1936
Gustav Brühl
1871 - 1939
Max Frischeisen-Köhler
1878 - 1923
Ernst Schwalbe
1871 - 1920
Rodolphe Lemoine
1871 - 1946
Alfred Klee
1875 - 1943
Gustav Meinertz
1873 - 1959
Robert Petsch
1875 - 1945
Georg Gerlach
1874 - 1962
Adolf Heilborn
1873 - 1941
Ernst Mangold
1879 - 1961
Leopold Zscharnack
1877 - 1955
Hans Rosenberg (Physiker)
1879 - 1940
Hella Tornegg
1878 - 1950
Ernst Articus
1876 - 1947
Emil Wutzky
1871 - 1963
Friedrich Britze
1870 - 1956
Hermann Ullstein
1875 - 1943
Paul Darmstädter
1873 - 1934
Alfred Görnemann
1877 - 1903
Kurt Perels
1878 - 1933
Hans Petri
1877 - 1945
Ernst Schultze (Soziologe)
1874 - 1943
Elise de Nys Kutscherra
1872 - 1945
Max Gaede
1871 - 1946
Hans Ostwald
1873 - 1940
Leopold Messerschmidt
1870 - 1911
Paul Schlesinger
1878 - 1928
Herbert Munk
1875 - 1953
Fredy Sieg
1878 - 1962
Georg Kalischer
1873 - 1938
Ernst Wolff (Jurist)
1877 - 1959
Paul Apel (Schriftsteller)
1872 - 1946
Erich Schmidt-Kestner
1877 - 1941
Marie Kunert
1871 - 1957
Paul Emmerich
1876 - 1958
Hugo Ibscher
1874 - 1943
Wilhelm von Radowitz
1875 - 1939
Hermann Weissenborn
1876 - 1959
Otto Lienau
1877 - 1945
Paul Schröder (Psychiater)
1873 - 1941
Carl Oppenheimer
1874 - 1941
Ethel Jackson
1877 - 1957
Max Winkelmann (Ingenieurwissenschaftler)
1879 - 1945
Eduard Jahn
1871 - 1942
Paul Hildebrandt (Pädagoge)
1870 - 1948
Wolfgang Fleck
1879 - 1939
Robert von Klüber
1873 - 1919
Bernhard Koerner
1875 - 1952
Philipp Rappaport
1879 - 1955
Victor Barnowsky
1875 - 1952
William Straube
1871 - 1954
Josefine Kramer-Glöckner
1874 - 1954
Erich Caspar (Historiker)
1879 - 1935
Fritz Bleichröder
1875 - 1938
Kurt Mendel
1874 - 1946
Alex Meyer
1879 - 1978
Clara Stern
1877 - 1948
Ernst von Simson
1876 - 1941
Arthur Menachem Hantke
1874 - 1955
Georg Rosenthal (Pädagoge)
1874 - 1934
Max Adolf Pfeiffer
1875 - 1957
Bruno Edgar Siegheim
1875 - 1952
Georges Morin (Bildhauer)
1874 - 1950
Marie Bloch
1871 - 1943
Gustav Bumcke
1876 - 1963
Karl Wessely (Ophthalmologe)
1874 - 1953
Jesco von Puttkamer (Offizier)
1876 - 1959
Hartmann von Richthofen
1878 - 1953
Martin Breslauer
1871 - 1940
Alfred Oppenheim (chemist)
1878 - 1943
Hildegard Wegscheider
1871 - 1953
Erdmann Graeser
1870 - 1937
Martin Kießling
1879 - 1944
Aline Sanden
1879 - 1955
Nelly Wolffheim
1879 - 1965
Fritz Crzellitzer
1876 - 1942
Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy der Jüngere
1879 - 1956
Friedrich Solger
1877 - 1965
Georg Hannig
1872 - 1934
Max Fabian
1873 - 1926
Georg Gräner
1876 - 1945
Franz Müller (Pharmakologe)
1871 - 1945
Rudolf Siegel
1878 - 1948
Edmund Neuendorff
1875 - 1961
Michał Radziwiłł Rudy
1870 - 1955
Paul Le Seur
1877 - 1963
Victor Manheimer
1877 - 1942
Arthur Goldschmidt
1873 - 1947
Hans Licht
1876 - 1935
Paul Roethig
1874 - 1940
Elfriede Ryneck
1872 - 1951
Wolf-Heinrich von der Mülbe
1879 - 1965
Frieda Fischer-Wieruszowski
1874 - 1945
Conrad von Borsig
1873 - 1945
Hermann Küttner
1870 - 1932