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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.