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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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Bochum during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Bochum Is Known For
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Politician is Bochum's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (103).
Bochum over-indexes on manager — 11.2× the global rate.
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.
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Sports
- Writing
- Film & TV
- Art & Design
- Other
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Leon Goretzka
Born 1995
Joël Matip
Born 1991
Matthias Ostrzolek
Born 1990
Daniel Heuer Fernandes
Born 1992
Marc Rzatkowski
Born 1990
Gino Fechner
Born 1997
Cebio Soukou
Born 1992
Nora Quest
Born 1990
Kyra Malinowski
Born 1993
Till Gloger
Born 1993
Julian Jasinski
Born 1996
Maurice Huke
Born 1993
Valentin Baus
Born 1995
Katharina Leiding
Born 1994
Benjamin Proyer
Born 1991