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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.