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 1800s Clear ×
Johann Georg Kohl
1808 - 1878
Arnold Duckwitz
1802 - 1881
Arnold Hermann Lossow
1805 - 1874
Marie Mindermann
1808 - 1882
Hermann Henrich Meier
1809 - 1898
Karl Ludwig Neubourg
1808 - 1894
Johann Wilhelm Wendt (Kapitän)
1802 - 1847
Adolf Laun
1808 - 1881
August Wilhelm Wedeking
1807 - 1875
Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Hampe
1806 - 1862
Johann Daniel Thulesius
1800 - 1850
August von Oelrichs
1801 - 1868
Carl Anton Eduard Lorent
1809 - 1886
Franz Tecklenborg
1807 - 1886
Johann Georg Wermelskirch
1803 - 1872
Henriette Grabau-Bünau
1805 - 1852
Ferdinand Donandt (Politiker)
1803 - 1872
Daniel Meinertzhagen (Bankier)
1801 - 1869
Heinrich Smidt (Senator)
1806 - 1878
Carl Friedrich Gottfried Mohr
1803 - 1888
Karl Theodor Oelrichs
1804 - 1871
Johann Heinrich Thätjenhorst
1803 - 1859
Maximilian von Vrints zu Falkenstein
1802 - 1896
Jakob Frerichs
1805 - 1870
Hermann Garlichs
1807 - 1865
Hermann Friedrich Ulrichs
1809 - 1865
Friedrich Wilhelm Wencke
1806 - 1859
Johann Höpken
1801 - 1877
Friedrich Carl Ferdinand Nielsen (1803–1882) –
1803 - 1882
Johann Heinrich Volkmann (Theologe)
1804 - 1865
Johann Christoph Dubbers
1804 - 1877
Albert Schumacher (Konsul)
1802 - 1871