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BOCHUM

Most Famous People Born in Bochum, Germany

Notable people
685
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1948
Most distinctive
Manager 11.2×

A Ruhr coal town that reinvented itself around the Ruhr-Universität, and the page shows it: an Academic bench running at better than seven times the global baseline, a quietly distinctive Theologian presence, and the Actor and Journalist concentrations of a city that turned a mining economy into a media-and-lecture-hall economy inside two generations.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Bochum during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 114 notable births.

What Bochum Is Known For

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Politician is Bochum's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (103).

Bochum over-indexes on manager11.2× the global rate.

  1. Politician103
  2. Actor60
  3. Football53
  4. Academic53
  5. Journalist22
  6. Writer22
  7. Author15
  8. Painter14
  1. Manager711.2×
  2. Academic537.6×
  3. Theologian135.2×
  4. Entrepreneur93.9×
  5. Author152.5×
  6. Journalist222.0×
  7. Artist121.7×
  8. Actor601.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Bochum's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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0002 CHEMIST

Manfred Eigen

1927 - 2019

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0008 JOURNALIST

Peter Scholl-Latour

1924 - 2014

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0009 COMPOSER

Gershon Kingsley

1922 - 2019

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0013 ACTOR

Hans Korte

1929 - 2016

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0024 POLITICIAN

Hans Matthöfer

1925 - 2009

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0051 ACADEMIC

Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg

1926 - 2010

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0055 ASTRONOMER

Heinz Kaminski

1921 - 2002

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0059 HISTORIAN

Ingrid Mittenzwei

1929 - 2012

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0064 NAZI

Friedhelm Busse

1929 - 2008

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0077 SCULPTOR

Friedrich Gräsel

1927 - 2013

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0080 FOOTBALL

Gerhard Harpers

1928 - 2016

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0101 PHILOSOPHER

Günter Rohrmoser

1927 - 2008

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0107 ACTOR

Agathe Poschmann

Born 1922

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0122 AUTHOR

Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt

Born 1927

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0167 COMPOSER

Margret Birkenfeld

1926 - 2019

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0194 PUBLISHER

Anneliese Brost

1920 - 2010

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0208 POLITICIAN

Karl Partsch

1922 - 2009

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0212 ACADEMIC

Rudolf Stephan

1925 - 2019

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0216 ACTOR

Sepp Wäsche

1929 - 2002

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0221 HISTORIAN

Horst Ueberhorst

1925 - 2010

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0225 AUTHOR

Alfred Müller-Felsenburg

1926 - 2007

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0226 ACADEMIC

Günter Urban

1926 - 2017

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0228 ECONOMIST

Klaus Rose (Volkswirt)

Born 1928

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0232 EDUCATION

Philipp Eggers

1929 - 2016

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0241 ENTREPRENEUR

Hans Hermann Voss

1926 - 2006

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0261 FOOTBALL

Willi Vordenbäumen

1928 - 2015

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0263 PSYCHOLOGIST

Theo Herrmann (Psychologe)

1929 - 2013

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0295 DENTIST

Eberhard Sonnabend

1923 - 2011

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0344 PAINTER

Friedrich Kracht

1925 - 2007

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0356 PAINTER

Horst Geldmacher

1929 - 1992

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0357 FOOTBALL

Ottokar Wüst

1925 - 2011

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0364 ACTOR

Kurt Oligmüller

1922 - 1983

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0378 RELIGIOUS

Franz Peter Sonntag

1920 - 1987

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0380 ACTOR

Günter Bommert

1925 - 2014

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0387 ACADEMIC

Wolfgang Brüggemann

1926 - 2014

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0408 ACADEMIC

Hubert Abel

1927 - 2018

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0409 POLITICIAN

Heinz Budde

1925 - 1991

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0416 AUTHOR

Roland H. Wiegenstein

Born 1926

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0436 PAINTER

Hubert Schaffmeister

1928 - 2012

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0473 JOURNALIST

Karl Garbe (Journalist)

1927 - 2019

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0474 POLITICIAN

Rolf Nolting

1926 - 1995

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0484 ACADEMIC

Reinhold A. Frowein

Born 1923

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0504 ACADEMIC

Kurt Schürmann (Neurochirurg)

1920 - 2006

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0516 COMPOSER

Hans Georg Zambona

Born 1928

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0520 PHILOSOPHER

Wilhelm Goerdt

Born 1921

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0526 POLITICIAN

Hermann Josef Russe

1922 - 2008

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0528 ACTOR

Karl-Heinz Pelser

Born 1926

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0535 WRITER

Herbert Erdmann (Schriftsteller)

1926 - 1996

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0536 POLITICIAN

Karl Liedtke

1925 - 2008

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0537 ACTOR

Gerhard Remus

Born 1927

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0540 SURGEON

Gert Dieckmann

1925 - 2007

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0559 ACADEMIC

Friedrich Jarchow

1926 - 2011

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0569 BANK

Rolf Diel

1922 - 2013

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0577 ACADEMIC

Hermann Fabry junior

Born 1925

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0584 NEUROLOGIST

Hans-Werner Pia

1921 - 1986

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0591 OFFICER

Klemens Behler

1921 - 1998

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0594 OFFICER

Helmut Bergmann

1920 - 1944

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0595 PLAYER

Bernhard Vossebein

Born 1925

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0651 OFFICER

Franz Büttner

1925 - 1945

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0662 POLITICIAN

Günter Lenitzki

1925 - 2009

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0672 VEREINIGUNG

Karl-Heinrich Jakob

1924 - 2012

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0674 ACTOR

Irmgard Kelbch-Bernick

1920 - 1972

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0679 JUDGE

Norbert Borgolte

1929 - 2012

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