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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Gustav Hartlaub
1814 - 1900
Wilhelm Henzen
1816 - 1887
Johann Georg Meyer
1813 - 1886
Nicolaus Delius
1813 - 1888
Carl Johann Steinhauser
1813 - 1879
Henry Bohlen
1810 - 1862
Carl Wilhelm von Zehender
1819 - 1916
Gustav Woldemar Focke
1810 - 1877
Julie Schwabe
1818 - 1896
Friedrich Wagenfeld
1810 - 1846
Heinrich Müller (Architekt, 1819)
1819 - 1890
Mudder Cordes
1815 - 1905
Christian Heinrich Wätjen
1813 - 1887
Lüder Rutenberg
1816 - 1890
Therese Ringelhardt
1819 - 1892
Simon Loschen
1818 - 1902
Wilhelm Rocco
1819 - 1897
Christian Grabau
1810 - 1874
Gustav Quentell
1816 - 1896
Gustav Kulenkampff
1811 - 1878
Johann Karl Vietor
1810 - 1870
Johann Hermann Holler
1818 - 1868
Cornelius Rudolph Vietor
1814 - 1897
Friedrich Wilhelm Kohl
1811 - 1864
Natalie Häpke
1817 - 1923
Wilhelm Steinhäuser
1817 - 1903
Bernhard Wencke
1814 - 1881
Carl Gerhard Poppe
1813 - 1891
Laurenz Heinrich Carl Melchers
1812 - 1888
Johann Georg Walte
1811 - 1890
Carsten Waltjen
1814 - 1880
Ernst Heinrich Kahrweg
1818 - 1880
Johann Christian Kühtmann
1815 - 1869
Wilhelm Dethard Motz
1815 - 1897
Christian Friedrich Feldmann (Politiker)
1813 - 1883
Henry Lahmann
1816 - 1890
Diedrich Wilkens
1811 - 1876
Daniel Georg Volkmann
1812 - 1892
Marie Rogge
1818 - 1908
Daniel Diederich Knoop
1817 - 1893