52.5167° N, 13.3817° E

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.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Berlin during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1930s with 1,548 notable births.

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 author3.6× the global rate.

Berlin under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.

  1. Actor1,953
  2. Politician1,573
  3. Painter629
  4. Writer585
  5. Author491
  6. Academic474
  7. Football395
  8. Lawyer313
  1. Author4913.6×
  2. Chemist1673.1×
  3. Academic4743.0×
  4. Physicist1852.8×
  5. Actor1,9532.4×
  6. Mathematician1622.1×
  7. Historian3051.8×
  8. Sculptor1801.8×
  1. Football3950.2×
  2. Singer1910.6×

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.

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  • Politics & Law
  • Science
  • Sports
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6803 SPORT

Monika Zernicek

Born 1954

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6817 WRITER

Martina Dierks

1953 - 2012

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6834 SINGER

Hans Marquardt (Musiker)

Born 1951

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6845 MATHEMATICIAN

Christine Müller (Mathematikerin)

Born 1959

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6858 ACTOR

Christina Schönfeld

Born 1955

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6864 SCIENTIST

Stephan Marks

Born 1951

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6865 PHYSICIST

Tord Robert Riemann

Born 1951

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6870 WRITER

Christian Döring (Lektor)

Born 1954

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6894 PUBLISHER

Claudia Gehrke

Born 1953

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6912 ACTOR

Benita Rinne

Born 1956

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6918 HISTORIAN

Torsten Diedrich

Born 1956

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6935 PRESENTER

Hellmuth Henneberg

Born 1958

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6960 ACADEMIC

André Steiner (Historiker)

Born 1959

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6987 SKATER

Svetlana Alekseeva

Born 1955

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6994 WRITER

Dieter Winkler

Born 1956

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7032 HISTORIAN

Bernd Gehrke

Born 1950

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7045 AUTHOR

Lienhard Wawrzyn

Born 1951

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7051 ACTOR

Susanne Schaefer

Born 1950

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7097 AUTHOR

Jürgen Hesse

Born 1951

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7100 MUSIC

Henry de Winter

Born 1959

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7131 POLITICIAN

Juliane von Friesen

Born 1950

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7168 AUTHOR

Ralf Sotscheck

Born 1954

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7191 JOURNALIST

Bernd Matthies

Born 1953

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7200 SOCIOLOGIST

Brigitta Kreß

Born 1952

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7239 JOURNALIST

Rubina Möhring

Born 1950

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7243 ACTOR

Jörg Döring (Synchronsprecher)

Born 1959

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7255 MEDIEVALIST

Lutz Partenheimer

Born 1957

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7263 PHILOLOGIST

Michael Wetzel (Literaturwissenschaftler)

Born 1952

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7270 PHYSICIAN

Wolfram Mittelmeier

Born 1959

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7271 TRANSLATOR

Wolfgang Matz (Literaturwissenschaftler)

Born 1955

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7276 ACTOR

Frank Sauer

Born 1959

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7292 ARTIST

Thomas Schulz

Born 1950

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7297 LIBRARIAN

Carola Schelle-Wolff

Born 1955

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7325 POLITICIAN

Reinhard Schult

Born 1951

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7328 PAINTER

Rainer Bonar

1956 - 1996

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7338 ACADEMIC

Paul Kahlfeldt

Born 1956

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7341 MUSIC

Annelie Grund

Born 1953

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7345 ACTOR

Yvonne ten Hoff

Born 1950

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7350 MUSIC

Hans Engel (Komponist)

Born 1954

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7354 LITERARY

Bernd Rauschenbach (Literaturwissenschaftler) –

Born 1952

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7357 BOTANIST

Ingo Kowarik

Born 1955

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7360 MATHEMATICIAN

Dieter Jungnickel

Born 1952

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7361 WRITER

Jürgen Jürgens (Moderator)

1952 - 2018

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7367 ATHLETIC

Martina Blos

Born 1957

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7369 ACTOR

Stefan Krause (Synchronsprecher)

Born 1958

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7373 ACTOR

Marina Genschow

1950 - 1987

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7380 COMPOSER

Rainer Böhm (Komponist)

1952 - 2013

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7425 AUTHOR

Sebastian Vogel (Übersetzer)

Born 1955

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7441 FILM

Rotraut Pape

1956 - 2019

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7451 PHYSICIST

Matthias Scheffler

Born 1951

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7528 LIEDERMACHER

Mario Hené

Born 1954

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7530 THEATRE

Johnny Klinke

Born 1950

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7532 CINEMA

Peter Badel

Born 1953

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7534 WRITER

Andreas Fischer-Nagel

Born 1951

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7539 POLITICIAN

Andreas Wehr

Born 1954

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7570 HISTORIAN

Wolfgang Neugebauer (Historiker, 1953)

Born 1953

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7576 WRITER

Nele Moost

Born 1952

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7585 AUTHOR

Klaus Grochowiak

1950 - 2020

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7609 ART HISTORIAN

Dominik Bartmann

Born 1953

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7615 MATHEMATICIAN

Astrid Beckmann

Born 1957

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7652 DESIGNER

Sabine Schneider (Künstlerin)

Born 1956

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7656 ACADEMIC

Helmut Frister

Born 1956

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7669 SURGEON

Jürgen Ennker

Born 1952

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7670 ART HISTORIAN

Barbara Straka

Born 1954

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7672 ACTOR

Kristina Böhm

Born 1959

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7674 PAINTER

Thomas J. Richter

Born 1955

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7678 DRAMA

Tatjana Rese

Born 1956

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7715 MUSIC

Hans Maahn

Born 1953

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7730 ECONOMIST

Andreas Troge

Born 1950

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7743 LAW

Gabriele Beger

Born 1952

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7746 ECONOMIST

Georg Erber

Born 1950

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7752 GERMANIST

Ulrike Haß (Theaterwissenschaftlerin)

Born 1950

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7754 LAWYER

Wolfgang Ewer

Born 1955

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7765 ACTOR

Matthias Zahlbaum

Born 1959

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7777 PAINTER

André Krigar

Born 1952

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7799 AUTHOR

Stefan Bollinger

Born 1954

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7810 ILLUSTRATOR

Franz Zauleck

Born 1950

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7834 AUTHOR

Bernd Isert

1951 - 2017

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7847 SCULPTOR

Trak Wendisch

Born 1958

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7869 HISTORIAN

Andreas Ludwig (Historiker)

Born 1954

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7912 JUDGE

Hans-Georg Kluge

Born 1953

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7928 COMIC

Raymond Martin (Verleger)

Born 1953

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7972 ART HISTORIAN

Joachim Raeder

Born 1951

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7980 AUTHOR

Birk Meinhardt

Born 1959

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8004 JOURNALIST

Bernd Niquet

Born 1956

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8028 PRESENTER

Florian Fischer-Fabian

Born 1957

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8041 WRITER

Johannes Czwalina

Born 1952

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8061 SPORT

Olaf Paltian

Born 1952

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8090 ARTIST

Thomas Schmitt (Künstler)

Born 1951

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8091 FILM

Sibylle Schönemann

Born 1953

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8105 POLITICIAN

Jan Hofmann

Born 1954

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8136 MATHEMATICIAN

Axel Reimann

Born 1951

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8140 WRITER

Frank Pergande

Born 1958

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8146 SOCIOLOGIST

Michael Häder

Born 1952

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8186 SINGER

Gabriele Schreckenbach

Born 1955

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8210 GUITAR

Günter Holwas

1950 - 2014

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8221 AUTHOR

Rainar Nitzsche

Born 1955

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8234 FILM

Cornelia Grünberg

Born 1959

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8245 AUTHOR

Michael Reimann

Born 1951

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8246 ARTIST

Klaus Beyer (Künstler)

Born 1952

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8264 SAXOPHONIST

Rolf von Nordenskjöld

Born 1957

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8266 ACADEMIC

Jenny Brumme

Born 1958

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8284 MANAGER

André Zeug

Born 1956

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8294 SPORT

Karin Guthke

Born 1956

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8296 POLITICIAN

Claudia Winterstein

Born 1950

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8310 AUTHOR

Frank Preissler

Born 1959

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8313 ORNITHOLOGIST

Andreas Helbig

1957 - 2005

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8321 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Regine Schulz

Born 1953

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8335 WRITER

Friedrich Winterhager

Born 1953

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8339 WRITER

Christian Bertram (Regisseur)

Born 1952

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8342 JOURNALIST

Christian Kämmerling

Born 1953

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8358 JUDGE

Mario Eylert

Born 1953

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8363 PAINTER

Katharina Bach

Born 1959

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8369 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Reinhard G. Lehmann

Born 1955

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8372 ART HISTORIAN

Detlev Kreikenbom

Born 1951

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8379 LAWYER

Barbara von Minckwitz

Born 1950

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8390 FILM

Jürgen Ecke

Born 1957

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8392 PHOTOGRAPHER

Gerd Danigel

Born 1959

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8400 PHILOLOGIST

Martin Vöhler

Born 1959

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8425 MATHEMATICIAN

Klaus Altmann (Mathematiker)

Born 1957

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8431 ACADEMIC

Frank-Manuel Peter

Born 1959

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8432 POLITICIAN

Frank Jahnke

Born 1957

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8438 WISSENSCHAFTLER

Egbert Scheunemann

Born 1958

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8445 PHOTOGRAPHER

Thomas Sandberg

Born 1952

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8464 HISTORIAN

Martin Treu (Historiker)

Born 1953

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8489 AUTHOR

Inga Wolfram

Born 1953

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8524 ACADEMIC

Konrad Umlauf

Born 1952

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8537 WRITER

Heiderose Fischer-Nagel

Born 1956

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8546 POLITICIAN

Ralf Hillenberg

Born 1956

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8553 AUTHOR

Jörg W. Gronius

Born 1952

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8559 THEOLOGIAN

Stephan Weyer-Menkhoff

Born 1953

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8566 WRITER

Thomas Hohensee

Born 1955

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8576 AUTHOR

Klaus Laabs

Born 1953

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8578 EGYPTOLOGIST

Wolfram Grajetzki

Born 1950

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8590 SKATER

Rosemarie Taupadel

Born 1952

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8626 AUTHOR

Michael G. Fritz

Born 1953

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8642 AUTHOR

Andreas Keßler

Born 1959

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8654 POLITICIAN

Jens Klocksin

Born 1957

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8687 COMPOSER

Christoph Rinnert

Born 1957

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8694 SCENIC DESIGNER

Mathias Fischer-Dieskau

Born 1951

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8696 MUSIC

Thomas Blumenthal

Born 1958

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8699 MANAGER

Gerd E. Mäuser

Born 1958

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8721 ACTOR

Conrad F. Geier

Born 1958

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8722 LAWYER

Bert Eichhorn

Born 1956

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8750 ECONOMIST

Wolfgang Ratzek

1951 - 2014

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8759 WRITER

Ivana Jeissing

Born 1958

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8798 OLYMPISCH

Franz Allert

Born 1955

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8826 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Reinhard Dittmann

Born 1953

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8840 FOOTBALL

Lutz Michael Fröhlich

Born 1957

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8842 SURGEON

André Borsche

Born 1955

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8853 ECONOMIST

Dieter Flämig

Born 1950

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8869 ZEICHNER

Matthias Schlüter (Maler, 1952)

Born 1952

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8887 RIDER

Jan Ebeling

Born 1958

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8888 BASKET

Frank Hudson

Born 1957

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8891 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Veit Stürmer

1957 - 2013

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8895 MANAGER

Heidi Schäfer-Frischmann

Born 1951

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8904 ACTOR

Ulrich Mende

Born 1953

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8913 ACTOR

Reinhard Scheunemann

Born 1950

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8951 ACTOR

Marianne Zilles

1950 - 1999

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8957 AUTHOR

Marcia Zuckermann

Born 1957

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8958 JOURNALIST

Hannes Bahrmann

Born 1952

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8985 PHILOSOPHER

Wolfgang Sohst

Born 1956

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8994 ASTROPHYSICIST

Jochen Greiner

Born 1959

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9028 COMPOSER

Bert Poulheim

1952 - 2006

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9042 AUTHOR

Wilfried M. Bonsack

1951 - 2012

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9043 JOURNALIST

Christian Walther (Journalist)

Born 1956

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9059 AUTHOR

Sabine Krüger

Born 1956

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9076 POLITICIAN

Norbert Kopp

Born 1954

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9089 HISTORIAN

Karl Ditt

Born 1950

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9093 JOURNALIST

Bernd Jaenicke

Born 1953

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9102 AUTHOR

Michael Peschke

1959 - 2011

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9173 AUTHOR

Andreas Bengsch

Born 1953

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9182 SCULPTOR

Michael Jastram

Born 1953

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9193 PHILOSOPHER

René Weiland

Born 1957

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9203 LAWYER

Matthias Pechstein

Born 1958

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9205 MATHEMATICIAN

Wolfgang Kühnel (Mathematiker)

Born 1950

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9231 AUTHOR

Nea Weissberg

Born 1951

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9241 MATHEMATICIAN

Klaus Peter Jantke

Born 1951

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9257 PHOTOGRAPHER

Andreas Weidner

Born 1956

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9258 COMPOSER

Ralf Hoyer

Born 1950

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9269 SINGER

Yvi Jänicke

Born 1959

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9290 ACADEMIC

Rainer Schwarting

Born 1955

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9307 POLITICIAN

Michael Wegner

Born 1958

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9328 PHOTOGRAPHER

Thomas Born (Künstler)

Born 1952

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9355 PHILOLOGIST

Christina Meckelnborg

Born 1956

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9403 ACTOR

Guy De Saint Cyr

Born 1958

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9408 MATHEMATICIAN

Kurt Wolfsdorf

Born 1950

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9425 POLITICIAN

Felicitas Tesch

Born 1958

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9440 ECONOMIST

Jörg Schimmelpfennig

Born 1955

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9451 JOURNALIST

Rolf Raasch

Born 1953

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9480 BASKET

Burkhard Schröder

Born 1957

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9492 CHEMIST

Matthias Gaestel

Born 1958

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9514 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Marian Döhler

Born 1957

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9553 CINEMA

Peter Ziesche

Born 1955

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9561 ACADEMIC

Michael Noack (Zahnmediziner)

Born 1955

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9590 CHESS

Dirk Paulsen

Born 1959

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9614 AUTHOR

Manfred Hobsch

1951 - 2016

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9632 SCREENWRITER

Jörg Brückner (Autor)

Born 1958

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9640 REGISSEUR

Clemens Frohmann

Born 1950

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9693 AUTHOR

Juliane Honisch

Born 1956

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9778 MUSIC

Peter M. Haas

Born 1951

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9816 SOLDIER

Erika Franke

Born 1954

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9819 SOCIOLOGIST

Christoph Köhler

Born 1950

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9850 POLITICIAN

Gabriele Kötschau

Born 1950

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9858 PHOTOGRAPHER

Peter Homann (Fotograf)

Born 1959

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9870 GENERAL PRACTITIONER

Karlheinz Keppler

Born 1951

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9872 FOOTBALL

Jörg Gaedke

Born 1957

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9932 ACADEMIC

Klaus Hekking

Born 1950

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9964 JOURNALIST

Hans-Dieter Degler

Born 1950

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9967 NEUROSCIENTIST

Harald Wolf (Biologe)

Born 1955

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9989 MUSIC

Bodo Bischoff

Born 1952

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9998 ACADEMIC

Dietmar Hiller

Born 1958

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10018 CIVIL SERVICE

Christian Sundermann

Born 1958

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10067 POLITICIAN

Roland Hartwig

Born 1954

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10075 PAINTER

Bettina Niedt

Born 1957

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10099 AUTHOR

Stephan Sarek

Born 1957

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10122 POLITICIAN

Jan Kuhnert

Born 1951

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10132 ACADEMIC

Hans-Peter Howaldt

Born 1956

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10155 POLITICIAN

Thea Dückert

Born 1950

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10156 POLITICIAN

Harald Moritz

Born 1957

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10211 REGISSEUR

Ralf Nürnberger

Born 1952

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10236 ASTROLOGER

Gabriele Hoffmann (Wahrsagerin)

Born 1954

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10271 ACADEMIC

Jörg Petruschat

Born 1958

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10284 PIANIST

Bernhard Arndt

Born 1954

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10293 CHEMIST

Hans-Ulrich Moritz

Born 1952

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10305 ACADEMIC

Christoph Sowada

Born 1956

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10308 MISSING

Sabine Schudoma

Born 1959

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10379 ACTOR

Günter Jankowiak

Born 1951

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10390 SINGER

Cornelia Giese

1959 - 2000

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10465 CONDUCTOR

Roland Mell

Born 1954

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10486 SPORT

Hanns Leske

Born 1950

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10492 ACADEMIC

Gabriele Franziska Götz

Born 1954

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10525 AUTHOR

Achim Wannicke

Born 1950

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10540 POLITICIAN

Thomas Härtel

Born 1951

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10572 THEATRE

Torsten Fischer (Theaterregisseur)

Born 1958

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10583 PAINTER

Harald Wolff (Maler)

Born 1950

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10602 COMPOSER

Nicky Gebhard

Born 1952

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10699 BASSIST

Mario Castronari

Born 1954

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10700 MUSIC

Beate Leibe

Born 1954

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10709 ACTOR

Heike W. Reichenwallner

Born 1957

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10797 DESIGNER

Karin Wilke

Born 1953

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10803 POLITICIAN

Andreas Siegert

Born 1959

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10848 POLITICIAN

Michael Arndt (Politiker, 1951)

Born 1951

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10900 POLITICIAN

Michail Nelken

Born 1952

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10906 WRITER

Sabine Techel

Born 1953

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10912 COMPOSER

Klaus Brendel

Born 1958

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10916 ECONOMIST

Joachim Tanski

Born 1950

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10931 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Erhard Crome

Born 1951

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10983 AUTHOR

Petra Roek

Born 1951

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10993 AUTHOR

Rainer Hengsbach-Parcham

1950 - 2012

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11015 DRAMA

Maraike Wittbrodt

Born 1953

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11019 PAINTER

Michael Hegewald

Born 1955

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11032 PIANIST

Johannes Roloff

Born 1957

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11099 DIPLOMAT

Christian Clages

Born 1955

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11100 ACADEMIC

Uta Oelke

Born 1957

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11124 POLITICIAN

Andreas Statzkowski

Born 1956

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11154 SCULPTOR

F. Jörg Haberland

Born 1958

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11177 ACTOR

Waltraut Borchmann

Born 1951

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11198 POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Joithe-von Krosigk

Born 1950

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11207 COMPOSER

Birgit Havenstein

Born 1954

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11244 ACTOR

Olaf Hörbe

Born 1952

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11287 JUDGE

Michael Benndorf

Born 1952

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11321 ACTOR

Michael Rüdiger

Born 1955

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11334 POLITICIAN

Barbara Oesterheld

1951 - 2009

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11339 JOURNALIST

Jacqueline Hénard

Born 1957

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11353 FOOTBALL

Uwe Jahn

Born 1954

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11364 WRITER

Andrea Gerecke

Born 1957

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11376 MISSING

Neithard Resa

Born 1950

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11391 PHOTOGRAPHER

Michael Nischke

Born 1956

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11414 POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Spreen

Born 1955

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11446 WRITER

Gregor Kunz

Born 1959

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11470 GESCHÄFTSFÜHRER

Wolfgang Nielsen

Born 1950

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11486 PAINTER

Renée Strecker

Born 1955

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11502 TRANSLATOR

Michael Mundhenk

Born 1954

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11513 CIVIL SERVICE

Wolf-Dieter Lukas

Born 1957

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11527 POLITICIAN

Holger Krestel

Born 1955

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11560 SCULPTOR

Detlef Kraft

Born 1950

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11567 ECONOMIST

Christian G. Pätzold

Born 1951

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11590 WRITER

Ingo Reichardt

Born 1955

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11601 WRITER

Ewart Reder

Born 1957

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11605 FLAUTIST

Ulrich Roloff

Born 1955

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11655 POLITICIAN

Jens-Peter Heuer

Born 1955

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11664 ACTOR

Gerald Fiedler

Born 1959

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11681 ACTOR

Vincent Leittersdorf

Born 1957

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11684 POLITICIAN

Barbara Saebel

Born 1959

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11692 ACADEMIC

Klaus-Dieter Zastrow

Born 1950

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11700 FOOTBALL

Detlev Szymanek

Born 1954

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11729 FOOTBALL

Jürgen Muche

1951 - 2019

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11799 COMPOSER

Helmut Hoeft

Born 1957

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11823 DRAMA

Felicitas Loewe

Born 1959

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11854 PFARRER

Burkhard Weber (Theologe)

1954 - 2016

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11884 SCULPTOR

Sergej Alexander Dott

Born 1959

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11900 CHESS

Ulrich Schulze (Schachspieler)

Born 1950

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11905 MUSIC

Joachim Draheim

Born 1950

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11921 WRITER

Ina Strelow

Born 1958

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11968 MUSIC

Andy Gee

Born 1950

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12010 AUTHOR

Michael Arenz (Autor)

Born 1954

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12038 POLITICIAN

Nico Hübner

Born 1955

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12080 POLITICIAN

Jörg Stroedter

Born 1954

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12114 FOOTBALL

Michael Woythe

Born 1957

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