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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 1890s Clear ×
Walter Benjamin
1892 - 1940
Herbert Marcuse
1898 - 1979
Kurt Tucholsky
1890 - 1935
Ernst Lubitsch
1892 - 1947
George Grosz
1893 - 1959
Lotte Reiniger
1899 - 1981
Conrad Veidt
1893 - 1943
Gershom Scholem
1897 - 1982
Fritz Perls
1893 - 1970
Erich Auerbach
1892 - 1957
Veit Harlan
1899 - 1964
Kurt Gerron
1897 - 1944
Arthur Nebe
1894 - 1945
Georg Wittig
1897 - 1987
Carl Ludwig Siegel
1896 - 1981
Hermann Scherchen
1891 - 1966
Katharine Cornell
1893 - 1974
Anni Albers
1899 - 1994
Theodor Plievier
1892 - 1955
Prince Joachim of Prussia
1890 - 1920
Kurt von Tippelskirch
1891 - 1957
Erwin Blumenfeld
1897 - 1969
Erich Hückel
1896 - 1980
Werner March
1894 - 1976
Charlotte Bühler
1893 - 1974
Lotte H. Eisner
1896 - 1983
Käthe Haack
1897 - 1986
Paul Schmidt (interpreter)
1899 - 1970
Gerhard Rohlfs
1892 - 1986
Dora Gerson
1899 - 1943
Gerhard Lamprecht
1897 - 1974
Paul Citroen
1896 - 1983
Lucie Mannheim
1899 - 1976
Gertrud Kolmar
1894 - 1943
Blandine Ebinger
1899 - 1993
Massimo Campigli
1895 - 1971
Heinrich Blücher
1899 - 1970
Jeanne Mammen
1890 - 1976
Hans Deppe
1897 - 1969
Heinz Hilpert
1890 - 1967
Lutz Heck
1892 - 1983
Ernst-Robert Grawitz
1899 - 1945
Walter Mehring
1896 - 1981
Valeska Gert
1892 - 1978
Lothar Mendes
1894 - 1974
Franz Schafheitlin
1895 - 1980
Bruno Loerzer
1891 - 1960
Francis Simon
1893 - 1956
Erwin Planck
1893 - 1945
Trude Hesterberg
1892 - 1967
Johanna Hofer
1896 - 1988
Manfred Gurlitt
1890 - 1973
Ludwig Marcuse
1894 - 1971
Curt Courant
1899 - 1968
Gerhard Bienert
1898 - 1986
Hans Kahle
1899 - 1947
Walter Gramatté
1897 - 1929
Helmut Kolle
1899 - 1931
Otto Nebel
1892 - 1973
Robert Gilbert (musician)
1899 - 1978
Maxime Hans Kuczyński
1890 - 1967
Aleksandra Khokhlova
1897 - 1985
Walter Noddack
1893 - 1960
Max Ehrlich
1892 - 1944
Friedrich Sämisch
1896 - 1975
Rochus Gliese
1891 - 1978
Margarete Klose
1899 - 1968
Heinz Hajek-Halke
1898 - 1983
Fritz Lindemann
1894 - 1944
Albrecht von Bernstorff (1890-1945)
1890 - 1945
Werner Scholem
1895 - 1940
Helmuth von Glasenapp
1891 - 1963
Alfred Kantorowicz
1899 - 1979
Ernst Bernhard
1896 - 1965
Hans Schweikart
1895 - 1975
Rudolph Schoenheimer
1898 - 1941
Paul Graetz
1890 - 1937
Karl-Günther Heimsoth
1899 - 1934
Ernst Torgler
1893 - 1963
Manfred Noa
1893 - 1930
Hans Zehrer
1899 - 1966
Paul Westermeier
1892 - 1972
Ernst Waldow
1893 - 1964
Maximilian von Edelsheim
1897 - 1994
Clotilde von Derp
1892 - 1974
Ernst Ahl
1898 - 1945
Wilhelm Mommsen
1892 - 1966
Hans von Ahlfen
1897 - 1966
Lothar Müthel
1896 - 1964
Dagny Servaes
1894 - 1961
Erich Kettelhut
1893 - 1979
Bruno Tesch
1890 - 1946
Hans Jendretzky
1897 - 1992
Harald Schultz-Hencke
1892 - 1953
Fritz Werner
1898 - 1977
Gerd Heinrich
1896 - 1984
Ewald Wenck
1891 - 1981
Kurt Ludecke
1890 - 1960
Martin Luther (diplomat)
1895 - 1945
Otto Braun (Lyriker)
1897 - 1918
Walter Schreiber
1893 - 1970
Harry Edward
1898 - 1973
Alfred Wolfsohn
1896 - 1962
Ernst Simon
1899 - 1988
Kurt Heegner
1893 - 1965
Meta Seinemeyer
1895 - 1929
Margarete Sommer
1893 - 1965
Ulrich Greifelt
1896 - 1949
Walter Pagel
1898 - 1983
Dorrit Weixler
1892 - 1916
Wilhelm Crisolli
1896 - 1944
Mutz Greenbaum
1896 - 1968
Alfred Brauer
1894 - 1985
Erich Werdermann
1892 - 1959
Maximilian Herzberger
1899 - 1982
Werner Rittberger
1891 - 1975
Hans Luckhardt
1890 - 1954
Otto Kühne
1893 - 1955
Lotte Stein
1894 - 1982
Walter Simon (sinologist)
1893 - 1981
Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski
1899 - 1966
Lotte Neumann
1896 - 1977
Martin Gumpert
1897 - 1955
Willi Eichler
1896 - 1971
Hermann Werner Siemens
1891 - 1969
Ernst Blass
1890 - 1939
Hans Melchior
1894 - 1984
Robert Liebmann
1890 - 1942
Hans-Joachim Buddecke
1890 - 1918
Karl Grünberg
1891 - 1972
Harry Frank
1896 - 1947
Werner Scholz (Maler)
1898 - 1982
Hillel Oppenheimer
1899 - 1971
John Decker (artist)
1895 - 1947
Gabriele Tergit
1894 - 1982
Martin Gareis
1891 - 1976
Hermann Voss
1894 - 1987
Erwin Biegel
1896 - 1954
Adolf Koch
1896 - 1970
Adolf Bock
1890 - 1968
Karl Bolle
1893 - 1955
Fritz Thiele
1894 - 1944
Robert Lachmann
1892 - 1939
Ernst Sprockhoff
1892 - 1967
Fritz Gosslau
1898 - 1965
Peter Kollwitz
1896 - 1914
Heinz Heck
1894 - 1982
Alfred Mahlau
1894 - 1967
Wolfgang von Gronau
1893 - 1977
Ellen Brockhöft
1893 - 1977
Annot (artist)
1894 - 1981
Walter Röhrig
1897 - 1945
Heinz Unger
1895 - 1965
Hermann Souchon
1894 - 1982
Manfred George
1893 - 1965
Max Kaus
1891 - 1977
Walter Dubislav
1895 - 1937
August Thiele
1893 - 1981
Hans Rehfisch
1891 - 1960
Willy Goldberger
1898 - 1960
Josef Hopmann
1890 - 1975
Leopold Biberti
1894 - 1969
Vollrath von Maltzan
1899 - 1967
Fritz Ascher
1893 - 1970
Erika Abels d'Albert
1896 - 1975
Erich Walter Sternberg
1891 - 1974
Henriette Hardenberg
1894 - 1993
Marcellus Schiffer
1892 - 1932
Kurt Badt
1890 - 1973
Eugen Haagen
1898 - 1972
Erich Römer
1894 - 1987
Max Reichpietsch
1894 - 1917
Hans Sochaczewer
1892 - 1978
Willi Herrmann
1893 - 1968
Fritz Maurischat
1893 - 1986
Roma Bahn
1896 - 1975
Erich Bessel-Hagen
1898 - 1946
Walter March
1898 - 1969
Margit Barnay
1896 - 1974
Prayun Phamonmontri
1897 - 1982
Karl Wittig
1890 - 1958
Siegfried Lehman
1892 - 1958
Erwin Biswanger
1896 - 1970
Erich Kestin
1895 - 1969
Else Reval
1893 - 1978
Adolf Huschke
1891 - 1923
Franz Schoenberner
1892 - 1970
Kurt Lieck
1899 - 1976
Ilse Bois
1896 - 1960
Ernst Marcus
1893 - 1968
Vicco von Bülow-Schwante
1891 - 1970
Bolesław Przybyszewski
1892 - 1937
Wolfgang Spielhagen
1891 - 1945
Rosalind von Schirach
1898 - 1981
Karl Puth
1891 - 1955
Karl Schelenz
1890 - 1956
Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss
1899 - 1987
Richard Huschke
1893 - 1980
Kurt Grossmann
1897 - 1972
Otto Thiel
1891 - 1915
Erik Lund (director)
1893 - 1935
Grete Bloch
1892 - 1944
Peter Harlan
1898 - 1966
Kurt von der Chevallerie
1891 - 1945
Wilhelm von Lynar
1899 - 1944
Albin Köbis
1892 - 1917
Heinz Pernet
1896 - 1973
Walter Haag
1898 - 1978
Fred Goebel
1891 - 1964
Erich Sauer (Theologe)
1898 - 1959
Werner Pledath
1898 - 1965
Erich Nelson
1897 - 1980
Ernst Posner
1892 - 1980
Werner Leibbrand
1896 - 1974
Hannah Karminski
1897 - 1943
Cläre Jung
1892 - 1981
Friedrich Bethge
1891 - 1963
Lotte Lorring
1893 - 1939
Wilhelm Rath
1897 - 1973
Lily Ehrenfried
1896 - 1994
Rudi Feld
1896 - 1994
Herbert Rieckhoff
1898 - 1948
Hermann Lux (footballer)
1893 - 1962
Karl Holtz
1899 - 1978
Günther Hadank
1892 - 1973
Willi Sänger
1894 - 1944
Adolf Rieger
1899 - 1956
Paul Hinkler
1892 - 1945
Alexander von Hartmann
1890 - 1943
Franz Schroedter
1897 - 1968
Jakob Rosenberg
1893 - 1980
Esther von Kirchbach
1894 - 1946
Erwin Vierow
1890 - 1982
Hans Peters (Rechtswissenschaftler)
1896 - 1966
Erich Collin
1899 - 1961
Elise Jenny Baumgartel
1892 - 1975
Ernst Lehrs
1894 - 1979
Carl Drews
1894 - 1983
Olivier Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay
1898 - 1918
Berthold Koch
1899 - 1988
Hans Bethge (aviator)
1890 - 1918
Felix Manthey
1898 - 1971
Hans Harmsen
1899 - 1989
Hartmut Kallmann
1896 - 1978
Heinz Hentschke
1895 - 1970
Fritz Lange (Physiker)
1899 - 1987
Heinrich Otto Meisner
1890 - 1976
Siegfried Schott
1897 - 1971
Doramaria Purschian
1890 - 1972
Erich Glas
1897 - 1973
Otto Erdmann (art director)
1898 - 1965
Willy Baumgärtner
1890 - 1953
Fritz Giese
1890 - 1935
Hertha Feist
1896 - 1990
Kurt Hueck
1897 - 1965
Karl Weber (art director)
1897 - 1965
T.H. Tetens
1899 - 1976
Otto Zarek
1898 - 1958
Rio Nobile
Born 1897
Werner Schmeidler
1890 - 1969
Otto Liebing
1891 - 1967
Hellmut von der Chevallerie
1896 - 1965
Georg Bertram
1896 - 1979
Willy Schiller
1899 - 1973
Otto Heinrich von der Gablentz
1898 - 1972
Martin Riesenburger
1896 - 1965
Paul Koch (cyclist)
1897 - 1959
Gaston Briese
1898 - 1953
Evi Eva
1899 - 1985
Peter Francke
1897 - 1978
Otto Baecker
1898 - 1970
Karl Arning
1892 - 1964
Ernst Karchow
1892 - 1953
Adelbert Mühlschlegel
1897 - 1980
Werner Schott
1891 - 1965
Loo Hardy
1898 - 1938
Paul Kohl
1894 - 1959
Gertrude Sandmann
1893 - 1981
Waldemar von Zedtwitz
1896 - 1984
Hansi Bochow-Blüthgen
1897 - 1983
Rochus von Rheinbaben
1893 - 1937
Kurt Diemer
1893 - 1953
Siegmund Sredzki
1892 - 1944
Erich Brauer
1895 - 1942
Hans Haltermann
1898 - 1981
Heinrich Felix Schmid
1896 - 1963
Arthur Suhle
1898 - 1974
Bruno Boche
1897 - 1972
Walter Ehrlich
1896 - 1968
Walter Schulze-Mittendorff
1893 - 1976
Albert Hensel (Rechtswissenschaftler)
1895 - 1933
Reinhold Strassmann
1893 - 1944
Rudolf Liepmann
1894 - 1940
Lotte Cohn
1893 - 1983
Alexander Schönberg
1892 - 1985
Erich Rothe
1895 - 1988
Marie-Anne von Goldschmidt-Rothschild
1892 - 1973
Johannes Müller (compositeur)
1893 - 1969
Nicholas Kaufmann
1892 - 1970
Berthold Ostertag
1895 - 1975