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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- Filtered to 1770s Clear ×
Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus
1776 - 1837
Ludolph Christian Treviranus
1779 - 1864
Johann Smidt
1773 - 1857
Johann Abraham Albers
1772 - 1821
Ferdinand Beneke
1774 - 1848
Nikolaus Meyer (Schriftsteller)
1775 - 1855
Simon Hermann Nonnen
1777 - 1847
Isaak Altmann
1777 - 1837
Friedrich Schröder (Kaufmann)
1775 - 1835
Hieronymus Klugkist
1778 - 1851
Johann Heinrich Albers
1774 - 1855
Johann Eberhard Pavenstedt
1777 - 1860
Heinrich Gröning
1774 - 1839
Johann Daniel Noltenius
1779 - 1852
Elise Reindahl
1779 - 1825
Heinrich Lampe (Politiker, 1773)
1773 - 1825
Gerhard Meyer (Kaufmann, 1774)
1774 - 1855
Jürgen Sager
1777 - 1854
Johann Michael Duntze
1779 - 1845