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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.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Bremen during each.

What Bremen Is Known For

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Politician is Bremen's biggest profession — 21% of all notables (405).

Bremen over-indexes on merchant21.7× the global rate.

Bremen under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.

  1. Politician405
  2. Actor92
  3. Painter89
  4. Academic71
  5. Writer56
  6. Lawyer55
  7. Football53
  8. Author46
  1. Merchant3621.7×
  2. Education199.1×
  3. Academic713.7×
  4. Theologian213.0×
  5. Entrepreneur193.0×
  6. Author462.8×
  7. Judge242.7×
  8. Architect432.6×
  1. Football530.3×

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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  • Film & TV
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Showing 21 of 1,896 notable people

0151 BOTANIST

Karl Heinrich Mertens

1796 - 1830

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0231 PHYSICIAN

Johann Christian Albers

1795 - 1857

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0240 PHYSICIAN

Karl Theodor Menke

1791 - 1861

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0282 MILITAR

Anna Lühring

1796 - 1866

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0416 MILITAR

Friedrich Zobel

1799 - 1869

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0758 PAINTER

Carl Justus Harmen Fedeler

1799 - 1858

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0888 LAWYER

Johann Heinrich Castendyk

1795 - 1833

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0940 JOURNALIST

Friedrich Witthauer

1793 - 1846

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0981 MALACOLOGIST

Gerhard von dem Busch

1791 - 1868

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1011 PAINTER

Gottfried Menken (Maler)

1799 - 1838

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1015 PAINTER

Stephan Messerer

1798 - 1865

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1079 POLITICIAN

Eduard Gottlieb Kulenkamp

1796 - 1854

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1097 POLITICIAN

Gerhard Caesar

1792 - 1874

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1132 WRITER

Gustav Adolf de Grahl

1793 - 1858

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1133 SCULPTOR

Heinrich Frese

1794 - 1869

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1147 POLITICIAN

Carl Theodor Gevekoht

1798 - 1850

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1223 VORSITZENDER

Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Löning

1796 - 1879

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1245 THEOLOGIAN

Johann Melchior Kohlmann

1795 - 1864

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1294 HISTORIAN

Johann Hermann Duntze

1790 - 1874

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1328 ARCHITECT

Johann Wetzel (Baumeister)

1798 - 1880

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1372 POLITICIAN

Johannes Rösing (Politiker, 1793)

1793 - 1862

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