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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Gesche Gottfried
1785 - 1831
Ernst Heinrich Toelken
1785 - 1869
Betty Gleim
1781 - 1827
Ludwig Georg Treviranus
1780 - 1869
Heinrich Böse (Hauptmann)
1783 - 1867
Georg Treviranus
1788 - 1868
Elise Müller
1782 - 1849
Franz Friedrich Droste (1784–1849)
1781 - 1849
Martin Heinrich Wilkens
1782 - 1869
Friedrich Adolph Dreyer
1780 - 1850
Philipp Cornelius Heineken
1789 - 1871
Friedrich Wilhelm Heineken
1787 - 1848
Max von Eelking (Vater)
1782 - 1857
Diederich Meier
1787 - 1857
Andreas Friedrich Uhthoff
1780 - 1860
Jakob Blendermann
1783 - 1862
Isak Hermann Albrecht Schumacher
1780 - 1853
Diedrich Christian Rutenberg
1782 - 1861