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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Karl Heinrich Mertens
1796 - 1830
Johann Christian Albers
1795 - 1857
Karl Theodor Menke
1791 - 1861
Anna Lühring
1796 - 1866
Friedrich Zobel
1799 - 1869
Carl Justus Harmen Fedeler
1799 - 1858
Johann Heinrich Castendyk
1795 - 1833
Friedrich Witthauer
1793 - 1846
Gerhard von dem Busch
1791 - 1868
Gottfried Menken (Maler)
1799 - 1838
Stephan Messerer
1798 - 1865
Eduard Gottlieb Kulenkamp
1796 - 1854
Gerhard Caesar
1792 - 1874
Gustav Adolf de Grahl
1793 - 1858
Heinrich Frese
1794 - 1869
Carl Theodor Gevekoht
1798 - 1850
Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Löning
1796 - 1879
Johann Melchior Kohlmann
1795 - 1864
Johann Hermann Duntze
1790 - 1874
Johann Wetzel (Baumeister)
1798 - 1880
Johannes Rösing (Politiker, 1793)
1793 - 1862