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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.

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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0126 ECONOMIST

Bernd Lucke

Born 1962

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0135 ACTOR

Dru Berrymore

Born 1969

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0136 GUITAR

Meshell Ndegeocello

Born 1968

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0154 ACTOR

Alexander Hacke

Born 1965

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0157 ACTOR

Natja Brunckhorst

Born 1966

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0206 SCREENWRITER

Thomas Brussig

Born 1964

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0267 FILM

Jörg Buttgereit

Born 1963

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0341 PIANIST

Jacky Terrasson

Born 1965

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0356 ACTOR

Matthias Brandt

Born 1961

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0461 JOURNALIST

Maybrit Illner

Born 1965

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0485 ACTOR

Rainer Strecker

Born 1965

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0496 ACTOR

Marco Hofschneider

Born 1969

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0508 POLITICIAN

Petra Pau

Born 1963

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0554 ACTOR

Gesine Cukrowski

Born 1968

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0572 FILM

Ina Weisse

Born 1968

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0614 COMPOSER

Jörn-Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen

Born 1960

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0691 PAINTER

Jonas Burgert

Born 1969

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0782 GYMNAST

Maxi Gnauck

Born 1964

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0821 COMPOSER

Henning Lohner

Born 1961

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0825 FILM

Bernd Michael Lade

Born 1964

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0827 ACTOR

Oliver Korittke

Born 1968

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0833 SECRETARY

Uwe Corsepius

Born 1960

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0841 ACTOR

Anja Jaenicke

Born 1963

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0843 ACTOR

Christina Plate

Born 1965

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0850 MUSIC

Hagen Liebing

1961 - 2016

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0866 ZOOKEEPER

Thomas Dörflein

1963 - 2008

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0877 ATHLETIC

Andreas Krieger

Born 1966

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0878 MONK

Muhō Noelke

Born 1968

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0893 ACTOR

Maxi Biewer

Born 1964

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0931 ATHLETIC

Ulf Timmermann

Born 1962

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0932 JOURNALIST

Hajo Seppelt

Born 1963

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0937 CONDUCTOR

Michael Sanderling

Born 1967

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0940 ACTOR

Catherine Flemming

Born 1967

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1026 SPORT

Uwe Peschel

Born 1968

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1055 ACTOR

Sebastian Rudolph

Born 1968

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1067 ECONOMIST

Wolfgang Maennig

Born 1960

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1087 ACTOR

Wolfgang Bahro

Born 1960

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1106 COMPOSER

Helmut Oehring

Born 1961

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1108 ACTOR

Nina Franoszek

Born 1963

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1113 ACTOR

Michèle Marian

Born 1963

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1126 ACTOR

Thomas Heinze

Born 1964

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1174 CONDUCTOR

Sebastian Weigle

Born 1961

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1222 ACTOR

Janina Hartwig

Born 1961

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1224 CONDUCTOR

Stefan Sanderling

Born 1964

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1235 FILM

Fred Kelemen

Born 1964

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1236 FILM

Gregor Schnitzler

Born 1964

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1240 ATHLETIC

Nico Motchebon

Born 1969

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1256 FOOTBALL

Rüdiger Vollborn

Born 1963

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1336 SCREENWRITER

Ingo Hasselbach

Born 1967

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1371 POLITICIAN

Frank Henkel

Born 1963

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1375 ACTOR

Boris Aljinovic

Born 1967

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1377 RESEARCH

Peter-André Alt

Born 1960

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1401 ACTOR

Ulrike Krumbiegel

Born 1961

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1402 FILM

Jochen Alexander Freydank

Born 1967

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1411 PRESENTER

Annette Gerlach

Born 1964

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1444 ACTOR

Andreas Fröhlich

Born 1965

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1456 ACTOR

Oliver Rohrbeck

Born 1965

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1460 MUSIC

Alban Gerhardt

Born 1969

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1494 SINGER

Dietrich Henschel

Born 1967

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1503 JOURNALIST

Gabor Steingart

Born 1962

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1520 SWIMMER

Astrid Strauss

Born 1968

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1525 PLAYER

Markus Zoecke

Born 1968

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1572 ACTOR

Karl Wiedergott

Born 1969

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1591 FILM

Martin Weisz

Born 1966

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1592 ACTOR

Katja Bienert

Born 1966

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1601 SWIMMER

Jörg Woithe

Born 1963

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1610 FILM

Martin Todsharow

Born 1967

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1616 MODEL

Gabriella Brum

Born 1962

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1621 ACTOR

Matthias Hinze

1969 - 2007

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1637 ACTOR

Thorsten Grasshoff

Born 1969

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1681 CYCLIST

Mike Kluge

Born 1962

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1711 ACTOR

Torsten Michaelis

Born 1961

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1718 PRESENTER

Andrea Kiewel

Born 1965

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1723 PAINTER

Mark Lammert

Born 1960

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1728 COMEDIAN

Markus Majowski

Born 1964

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1767 ACTOR

Sharon Brauner

Born 1969

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1768 POLITICIAN

Frank Steffel

Born 1966

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1824 WRITER

Felix Ensslin

Born 1967

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1827 ACTOR

Silke Matthias

Born 1960

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1864 MUSIC

Tim Renner

Born 1964

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1881 FOOTBALL

Richard Golz

Born 1968

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1925 ACTOR

Dirk Borchardt

Born 1969

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1951 POLITICIAN

André Hahn (homme politique)

Born 1963

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1954 ACTOR

Susanne Lüning

Born 1966

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1970 CURATOR

Roger M. Buergel

Born 1962

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1993 SOCIOLOGIST

Sam Bourcier

Born 1963

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1997 ACTOR

Bettina Spier

1960 - 2008

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2009 SINGER

Claudia Barainsky

Born 1965

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2024 MUSIC

Kolja Blacher

Born 1963

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2051 CELLIST

Jan Vogler

Born 1964

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2091 CINEMA

Hagen Bogdanski

Born 1965

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2097 ACTOR

Alexandra Wilcke

Born 1968

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2133 ACTOR

Jenny Schily

Born 1967

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2158 ACTOR

Jörg Moukaddam

Born 1967

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2159 FOOTBALL

Marcus Feinbier

Born 1969

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2181 CANOE

André Wohllebe

1962 - 2014

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2182 AUTHOR

Bernd Brunner

Born 1964

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2191 POLITICIAN

Katrin Lompscher

Born 1962

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2205 MATHEMATICIAN

Daniel Huybrechts

Born 1966

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2210 ACTOR

Holger Handtke

Born 1968

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2231 ARTIST

Fil (auteur)

Born 1966

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2256 CANOE

Jörg Schmidt

Born 1961

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2260 SKATER

Sylvia Albrecht

Born 1962

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2269 JOURNALIST

Manuela Kay

Born 1964

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2279 ATHLETIC

Karsten Just

Born 1968

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2336 WRITER

Max Bentow

Born 1966

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2383 SCHOLAR

Anne Peters

Born 1964

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2451 ROWER

Jutta Behrendt

Born 1960

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2458 MUSIC

Steve Binetti

Born 1966

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2473 FOOTBALL

Peter Wynhoff

Born 1968

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2477 PHOTOGRAPHER

Donata Wenders

Born 1965

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2479 PAINTER

Anton Henning

Born 1964

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2504 WRITER

Alexander Osang

Born 1962

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2540 WRITER

David Chotjewitz

Born 1964

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2545 FOOTBALL

Holger Gehrke

Born 1960

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2555 FILM

Dirk Regel

Born 1968

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2559 RIDER

Heike Kemmer

Born 1962

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2579 ACTOR

Elisabeth Günther

Born 1966

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2614 ACTOR

Michael von Au

Born 1964

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2646 ACTOR

Beate Finckh

Born 1960

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2656 ARTIST

Florian Dombois

Born 1966

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2742 BASKET

Teoman Öztürk

Born 1967

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2751 SKATER

Angela Hauck

Born 1965

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2808 WRITER

Jan Peter Bremer

Born 1965

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2812 DRAMA

Anna Langhoff

Born 1965

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2834 FOOTBALL

Sven Habermann

Born 1961

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2836 PRODUCER

Tommi Eckart

Born 1963

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2837 POLITICIAN

Carola Bluhm

Born 1962

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2845 COMPOSER

Gary Marlowe

Born 1967

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2855 SKATER

René Schöfisch

Born 1962

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2885 WRITER

Tanja Dückers

Born 1968

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2892 THEATRE

Jens-Daniel Herzog

Born 1964

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2894 OPERA

Jan Kobow

Born 1966

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2950 ACTOR

Johannes Berenz

Born 1965

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2986 SONGWRITER

Nhoah

Born 1961

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2991 POLO

Hagen Stamm

Born 1960

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2993 JUDO

Sven Loll

Born 1964

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3002 FOOTBALL

Andreas Zimmermann

Born 1969

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3009 ACADEMIC

Benjamin Ziemann

Born 1964

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3019 FILM

Aelrun Goette

Born 1966

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3066 ROWER

Anja Kluge

Born 1964

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3076 MUSIC

Kevin Clarke (music historian)

Born 1967

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3097 WRITER

Nadia Budde

Born 1967

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3134 SWIMMER

Detlev Grabs

Born 1960

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3135 ARTIST

Sandra Rauch

Born 1967

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3148 BASKET

Frank Menz

Born 1964

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3158 COMPOSER

Marc Schubring

Born 1968

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3174 POLITICIAN

Andreas Geisel

Born 1966

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3199 DESIGNER

Kitty Kahane

Born 1960

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3233 SPORT

Carsten Podlesch

Born 1969

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3257 ATHLETIC

Carsten Köhrbrück

Born 1967

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3274 KAYAK

Oliver Kegel

Born 1961

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3292 OPERA

Jörg Waschinski

Born 1966

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3302 COMPOSER

Andreas Schmidt (jazz pianist)

Born 1967

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3310 ACTOR

Daniel Morgenroth

Born 1964

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3389 ATHLETIC

Dietmar Koszewski

Born 1967

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3391 AUTHOR

Andreas Venzke

Born 1961

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3416 ROWER

Birte Siech

Born 1967

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3446 ACTOR

Eva Medusa Gühne

Born 1961

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3449 FILM

Bettina Cramer

Born 1969

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3451 ACTOR

Maud Ackermann

Born 1965

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3457 HISTORIAN

Karl-Ludwig Elvers

Born 1962

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3484 BANK

Joachim von Amsberg (banker)

Born 1964

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3499 SKATER

Birgit Lorenz

Born 1963

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3602 JUDO

Martin Schmidt (judoka)

Born 1969

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3616 ACTOR

Benjamin Völz

Born 1960

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3651 ACTOR

Dietmar Wunder

Born 1965

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3660 ATHLETIC

Peggy Beer

Born 1969

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3665 SWIMMER

Carola Nitschke

Born 1962

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3682 ACTOR

Ira Wibowo

Born 1967

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3719 KICKBOXER

Michael Kuhr

Born 1962

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3724 PROFESSOR

Elisabeth Kalko

1962 - 2011

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3744 ACTOR

Patrick Winczewski

Born 1960

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3780 ACADEMIC

Jalid Sehouli

Born 1968

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3791 ARTIST

Timo Kahlen

Born 1966

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3795 ACTOR

Heike Faber

Born 1965

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3797 THEOLOGIAN

Sabine Bobert

Born 1964

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3801 WRITER

Ursula Heinzelmann

Born 1963

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3807 GYMNAST

Karola Sube

Born 1964

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3809 ACTOR

Katrin Fröhlich

Born 1968

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3814 ATHLETIC

Sandra Seuser

Born 1966

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3830 FOOTBALL

Christian Hausmann

Born 1963

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3842 ACTOR

Belhe Zaimoğlu

Born 1968

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3849 ECONOMIST

Daniel Diermeier

Born 1965

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3869 HISTORIAN

Christoph Markschies

Born 1962

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3870 ACTOR

Irina von Bentheim

Born 1962

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3888 ACTOR

Thomas Nero Wolff

Born 1962

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3910 SPORT

Eyk Pokorny

Born 1969

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3963 POLITICIAN

Natascha Engel

Born 1967

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3969 SONGWRITER

Olaf Jeglitza

Born 1965

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3995 ROWER

Heiko Habermann

Born 1962

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4020 ACTOR

Nadja Engel

Born 1964

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4025 FOOTBALL

Thomas Herbst (footballer)

Born 1962

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4031 SCREENWRITER

Anja Franke

Born 1964

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4060 ACTOR

Sascha Draeger

Born 1967

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4073 PRODUCER

Danny Bruder

Born 1969

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4075 COMPOSER

Juliane Klein

Born 1966

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4076 THERAPIST

Klaus Michael Beier

Born 1961

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4097 ROWER

Carsten Bunk

Born 1960

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4098 WRITER

Salah Naoura

Born 1964

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4132 THEATRICAL

Heike Merker

Born 1967

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4133 ACTOR

Andreas Hoppe

Born 1960

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4143 ACADEMIC

Thomas Böhlke

Born 1968

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4167 FOOTBALL

Mike Lünsmann

Born 1969

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4176 ACTOR

Rainer Sellien

Born 1963

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4196 ACTOR

Jany Tempel

Born 1969

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4207 POLITICIAN

Gottfried Curio

Born 1960

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4225 ACTOR

Barbara Philipp

Born 1965

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4232 ROCK

Moses Schneider

Born 1966

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4235 ACTOR

Melanie Pukaß

Born 1966

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4247 SWIMMER

Christiane Knacke

Born 1962

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4264 FILM

Alice Brauner

Born 1966

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4270 ACTOR

Angela Neumann

Born 1960

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4274 GYMNAST

Katharina Rensch

Born 1964

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4282 PHOTOGRAPHER

Sven Marquardt

Born 1962

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4312 ACTOR

Torsten Sense

Born 1961

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4350 FOOTBALL

Heikko Glöde

Born 1961

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4364 JOURNALIST

Friedhelm Wachs

Born 1963

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4383 ACTOR

Marco Kröger

Born 1963

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4384 ACTOR

Heike Hanold-Lynch

Born 1962

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4387 SOLOIST

Heiko Triebener

Born 1964

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4397 LAWYER

Katja Keul

Born 1969

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4398 ACTOR

Anna Böttcher

Born 1967

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4410 ECONOMIST

Thorsten Teichert

Born 1963

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4432 FOOTBALL

Michael Schmidt (footballer)

Born 1962

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4463 ACTOR

Silvia Mißbach

Born 1964

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4469 ACTOR

Anouschka Renzi

Born 1964

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4488 ACTOR

Tonio Arango

Born 1963

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4492 ACTOR

Debora Weigert

Born 1969

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4517 ACTOR

Madeleine Stolze

Born 1963

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4525 POLITICIAN

Heike Werner

Born 1969

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4532 MODEL

Loana Radecki

Born 1963

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4535 MUSIC

Dirk Zöllner

Born 1962

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4547 FOOTBALL

Robert Holzer

Born 1966

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4558 ATHLETIC

Sven Matthes

Born 1969

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4562 ACTOR

Stephanie Philipp

Born 1968

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4569 ACTOR

Jörg Witte

Born 1964

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4577 ACTOR

Kerstin Draeger

Born 1966

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4585 SCULPTOR

Ralf Sander

Born 1963

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4588 CINEMA

Gero Steffen

Born 1964

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4615 ACTOR

Ulrike Stürzbecher

Born 1965

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4643 PHYSICIST

Henning Stahlberg

Born 1965

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4646 ACTOR

Christian Gaul

Born 1964

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4649 ACTOR

Michael Iwannek

Born 1963

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4650 SCREENWRITER

Ilse Biberti

Born 1960

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4668 CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Stephan Winkelmann

Born 1964

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4674 ASTRONOMER

André Knöfel

Born 1963

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4693 SINGER

Céline Rudolph

Born 1969

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4705 ROWER

Stefan Scholz

Born 1964

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4712 GUITAR

Johnny Haeusler

Born 1964

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4722 FENCER

José Francisco Guerra

Born 1968

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4752 PIANIST

Andrej Hermlin

Born 1965

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4792 ACTOR

Roger Hübner

Born 1967

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4805 DRUMMER

Cyril Atef

Born 1968

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4810 LAWYER

Bernd Klaus Buchholz

Born 1961

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4812 ACTOR

Nicolas Böll

Born 1965

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4817 BIOCHEMIST

Dirk Bumann

Born 1967

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4822 ACTOR

Karlo Hackenberger

Born 1969

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4862 SINGER

Kim Fisher

Born 1969

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4878 ACTOR

Jens Kuphal

Born 1964

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4890 CINEMA

Tilman Büttner

Born 1964

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4903 ACTOR

Corinna Drews

Born 1962

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4916 FOOTBALL

Jürgen Gredig

Born 1966

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4938 PRESENTER

Cherno Jobatey

Born 1961

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4951 RADIO

Marion Brasch

Born 1961

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4980 FILM

Philippe Besson (Regisseur)

Born 1962

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4985 ACTOR

Maike Bollow

Born 1963

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4997 ACTOR

Steffen Münster

Born 1964

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5013 FOOTBALL

Dirk Greiser

Born 1963

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5019 EDUCATION

Ulrich Gotter

Born 1964

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5024 JOURNALIST

Nadya Luer

Born 1968

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5032 ACTOR

Susanne von Medvey

Born 1961

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5038 JOURNALIST

Elias Bierdel

Born 1960

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5068 ACTOR

Maren Schumacher

Born 1966

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5083 ACTOR

Holger Kunkel

Born 1965

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5084 ACTOR

Frauke Poolman

Born 1961

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5093 ACTOR

Moritz Lindbergh

Born 1964

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5097 ACTOR

Tamara Rohloff

Born 1961

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5112 ACTOR

Beate Maes

Born 1966

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5138 WRITER

Daniel Stelter

Born 1964

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5142 CHOREOGRAPHER

Johannes Wieland

Born 1967

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5148 RESEARCH

Gunther Eysenbach

Born 1967

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5169 AUTHOR

Boris Pfeiffer

Born 1964

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5170 RADIO

Knut Elstermann

Born 1960

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5181 WRITER

Atul Chitnis

1962 - 2013

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5213 JOURNALIST

Ralph T. Niemeyer

Born 1969

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5218 ACADEMIC

Ralph Kayser

Born 1965

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5222 ACTOR

Nicole Belstler-Boettcher

Born 1963

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5225 DRAUGHTSWOMAN

Marc Brandenburg

Born 1965

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5229 ACTOR

Isabel Golden

Born 1963

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5231 ACTOR

Marc Bischoff

Born 1969

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5266 ACTOR

Jean Denis Römer

Born 1967

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5297 ART DEALER

Karsten Schubert

1961 - 2019

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5320 ARCHITECT

Jan Kleihues

Born 1962

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5323 CHESS

Wieland Bruch

Born 1961

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5326 SWIMMER

Iris Zscherpe

Born 1967

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5369 WRITER

Petra A. Bauer

Born 1964

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5373 THEOLOGIAN

Bernhard Felmberg

Born 1965

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5392 WRITER

Ahne (Schriftsteller)

Born 1968

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5398 ACTOR

Beatrice Manowski

Born 1968

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