53.0769° N, 8.8090° E
BREMEN
Most Famous People Born in Bremen, Germany
- Notable people
- 1,896
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1912
- Most distinctive
- Merchant 21.7×
A Hanseatic free city whose most distinctive profession, at more than twenty times the global rate, is merchant — the officers of a self-governing trading republic that ran its own Senate until the 19th century. Bremen's other distinctive shelves are theologians, entrepreneurs, judges, and academic authors, and the 1800s are unusually heavy here. The modern half is held down by James Last, Angelique Kerber, and a Werder Bremen footballing tradition that the city's industrial families bankrolled.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Bremen during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Bremen Is Known For
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Politician is Bremen's biggest profession — 21% of all notables (405).
Bremen over-indexes on merchant — 21.7× the global rate.
Bremen under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Bremen's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Blasius Merrem
1761 - 1824
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren
1760 - 1842
Gerhard Ludvig Lahde
1765 - 1833
Ludwig Rullmann
1765 - 1822
Gottfried Menken (Theologe)
1768 - 1831
Friedrich Wilmans
1764 - 1830
Johann Heinrich Menken
1766 - 1839
Wilhelm von Arentschildt
1761 - 1835
Anton Albers der Ältere
1765 - 1844
Jacob Fehrmann
1760 - 1837
Johann Heineken
1761 - 1851
Daniel Schütte
1763 - 1850
Simon Heinrich Gondela
1765 - 1832
Hermann Schlichthorst
1766 - 1820
Wilhelm Ernst Wichelhausen
1769 - 1823
Daniel Braubach
1767 - 1828
Carl Vrints von Treuenfeld
1765 - 1852
Christian Hermann Schöne
1763 - 1822
Heinrich Rump
1768 - 1837
Heinrich Christian Motz
1761 - 1832