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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Christian Luerssen
1843 - 1916
Henry Frederick Conrad Sander
1847 - 1920
Heinrich Bulthaupt
1849 - 1905
Dietrich Schäfer
1845 - 1929
Eduard Sonnenburg
1848 - 1915
Heinrich Averbeck
1844 - 1889
Wilhelm Hasselmann
1844 - 1916
Johann Focke
1848 - 1922
Aline von Kapff
1842 - 1936
Carl Georg Barkhausen
1848 - 1917
Bernhardine Schulze-Smidt
1846 - 1920
Eduard Gildemeister
1848 - 1946
Friedrich Achelis
1840 - 1917
Hermann Henrich Meier junior
1845 - 1905
Gustav Brandt (Kaufmann)
1847 - 1918
Beta Isenberg
1846 - 1933
Friedrich Wencke
1842 - 1905
Fred Pansing
1844 - 1912
Eduard Tecklenborg
1849 - 1926
Gottlob Bünte
1840 - 1907
Alfred Kühtmann
1847 - 1931
Hermann Frese
1843 - 1909
Carl Jasper Oelrichs
1844 - 1923
Fanny Meyer (Malerin)
1842 - 1909
Julius Friedrich Pajeken
1843 - 1902
Johann Stoevesandt
1848 - 1933
Johann Friedrich Bremermann
1842 - 1913
Ernst Dünzelmann
1846 - 1907
Helene von Fischer
1843 - 1911
Heinrich Helmers
1847 - 1908
Wilhelm Hurm
1848 - 1896
Friedrich Grösser
1844 - 1915
Lambert Leisewitz
1846 - 1909
Wilhelm August Korff
1845 - 1914
Johann Heinrich Volkmann (Kaufmann)
1842 - 1916
Hermann Junge
1841 - 1924
Marie Eggers-Smidt
1844 - 1923