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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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0004 MINISTER

Otto Schily

Born 1932

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0022 FOOTBALL

Willi Schulz

Born 1938

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0036 ENGINEER

Werner Stengel

Born 1936

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0045 THEOLOGIAN

Gerhard J. Bellinger

1931 - 2020

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0067 LAWYER

Hans-Martin Pawlowski

1931 - 2016

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0070 PHYSICIAN

Konrad Schily

Born 1937

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0081 ACADEMIC

Jürgen Strube

Born 1939

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0089 DIPLOMAT

Jürgen Ruhfus

1930 - 2018

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0109 POLITICIAN

Hans Watzke

1932 - 2014

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0112 DIPLOMAT

Jürgen Sudhoff

Born 1935

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0134 SOCIOLOGIST

Arno Klönne

1931 - 2015

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0138 WRESTLER

Günther Maritschnigg

1933 - 2013

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0142 AUTHOR

Helmut Koopmann

Born 1933

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0148 ACTOR

Hans Schulze (Schauspieler)

Born 1930

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0151 GEOGRAPHER

Dietrich Bartels

1931 - 1983

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0157 ACTOR

Jürgen Schmidt (Schauspieler)

1938 - 2004

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0163 ACADEMIC

Marianne Kesting

Born 1930

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0183 FOOTBALL

Heinz Lowin

1938 - 1987

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0196 RESTAURATEUR

Charly Neumann

1931 - 2008

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0197 THEOLOGIAN

Günter Brakelmann

Born 1931

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0203 TRANSLATOR

Paul Gerhard Schoenborn

Born 1934

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0206 JOURNALIST

Randy Braumann

1934 - 2020

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0218 ACTOR

Horst A. Fechner

1935 - 1996

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0222 ACADEMIC

Hans Kurt Tönshoff

Born 1934

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0252 ACADEMIC

Walter J. Schütz

1930 - 2013

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0254 MANAGER

Heinz Kriwet

1931 - 2017

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0266 OPERA

Roland Hermann

1936 - 2020

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0277 ACADEMIC

Klaus Schulte

1930 - 2016

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0281 COMPOSER

Friedhelm Deis

1930 - 2008

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0286 MUSIC

Elmar Budde

Born 1935

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0293 THEOLOGIAN

Franz-Josef Nocke

Born 1932

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0294 SCULPTOR

Wyny Ecu

Born 1931

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0296 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Alfred Czarnetzki

1937 - 2013

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0297 MUSIC

Friedrich Witt (Bassist)

1930 - 2015

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0299 ADVISOR

Werner Altegoer

1935 - 2013

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0320 ACTOR

Christine van Santen

1931 - 1984

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0324 ACADEMIC

Manfred Mols

1935 - 2016

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0336 ARCHITECT

Theodor Josef Seifert

1932 - 2007

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0338 PAINTER

Werner Koch (Maler, 1937)

Born 1937

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0339 SWIMMER

Elisabeth Rechlin

Born 1930

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0352 POLITICIAN

Ulrich Irmer

Born 1939

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0359 MEDIEVALIST

Wilhelm Kurze

1933 - 2002

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0362 MUSIC

Johannes Hömberg

Born 1932

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0374 ACADEMIC

Gerhard Allroggen

Born 1936

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0389 ARCHITECT

Diethelm Hoffmann

Born 1935

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0398 PHYSICIAN

Werner Lüthgen

1933 - 2017

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0405 ACADEMIC

Dieter Wyduckel

1938 - 2015

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0411 ACTOR

Herbert Adler

Born 1935

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0435 ACADEMIC

Hartmut Wedekind (Informatiker)

Born 1935

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0446 POLITICIAN

Helmut Wieczorek

1934 - 2010

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0478 POLITICIAN

Georg Aigner

Born 1934

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0487 THEOLOGIAN

Günter Linnenbrink

1934 - 2020

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0490 FOOTBALL

Horst Wandolek

Born 1936

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0494 ACADEMIC

Heinrich Volkmann

1938 - 2014

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0519 ACADEMIC

Günter Feix

Born 1934

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0541 MANAGER

Konrad C. F. Lorenzen

Born 1936

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0545 ARTIST

Hans Georg Vaupel

Born 1934

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0546 POLITICIAN

Peter-Jürgen Rau

Born 1936

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0550 POLITICIAN

Helmut Marmulla

1933 - 1997

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0556 TEACHER

Heinz Papenhoff (Altphilologe)

1931 - 2000

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0561 SPORT

Fritz-Günter Schauwienold

Born 1934

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0573 POLITICIAN

Dieter Hussing

1936 - 2015

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0579 POLITICIAN

Friedhelm Simelka

1932 - 2008

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0581 WRITER

Helmut Schlich

1935 - 2015

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0600 POLITICIAN

Herbert Paschen (Politiker)

Born 1935

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0615 POLITICIAN

Karl Heinz Luckhardt

1932 - 2019

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0630 ACTOR

Karl Stroth

Born 1934

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0635 ATHLETIC

Jürgen Wedeking

Born 1935

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0646 POLITICIAN

Erwin Siekmann

Born 1936

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0652 SCULPTOR

Gerhard Scheibe

1939 - 2011

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0654 ARTIST

Otto Näscher

1930 - 1997

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