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 1870s Clear ×
Karl Abraham
1877 - 1925
Heinrich Vogeler
1872 - 1942
Clara Westhoff
1878 - 1954
Rudolf Alexander Schröder
1878 - 1962
Ludwig Roselius
1874 - 1943
Johann Plenge
1874 - 1963
Ernst Hoppenberg
1878 - 1937
Friedrich August Georg Bitter
1873 - 1927
Anton Kippenberg
1874 - 1950
Friedrich von der Leyen
1873 - 1966
Henry Siedentopf
1872 - 1940
Hermann Häfker
1873 - 1939
Wilhelm Focke
1878 - 1974
Theodor Spitta
1873 - 1969
Bernhard Adelung
1876 - 1943
Hans Höppner
1873 - 1946
Otto Franzius
1877 - 1936
Wilhelm Klatte
1870 - 1930
Edward Voigt
1873 - 1934
August Abbehusen
1875 - 1941
Heinrich Scharrelmann
1871 - 1940
Wilhelm Scharrelmann
1875 - 1950
Fritz Gansberg
1871 - 1950
Conrad Müller
1878 - 1953
Margarethe von Reinken
1877 - 1962
Emil Bose
1874 - 1911
Alexander Just
1874 - 1937
Magdalene Pauli
1875 - 1970
Theodore Garbade
1873 - 1961
Heinrich Schulz
1872 - 1932
Carl Eeg
1876 - 1956
Otto Blendermann
1879 - 1944
Carl Jörres
1870 - 1947
Eduard Ichon
1879 - 1943
Anna Plate
1871 - 1941
Heinrich Eildermann
1879 - 1955
Julius Grober
1875 - 1971
Walter Bertelsmann
1877 - 1963
Robert vom Scheidt
1879 - 1964
Hans Meyer (Radiologe)
1877 - 1964
Hermann Wätjen
1876 - 1944
Waldemar Julsrud
1875 - 1964
Edward Kleinschmidt
1876 - 1977
Hermann Sandkuhl
1872 - 1936
Gustav Scipio
1872 - 1949
Heinrich Wilhelm Behrens
1873 - 1956
André Wedemeyer
1875 - 1958
Hermann Entholt
1870 - 1957
Hermann Marwede (Kaufmann)
1878 - 1959
Hermann Angermeyer
1876 - 1955
Anton Karl Schindler
1879 - 1964
Carl Albrecht (Kaufmann)
1875 - 1952
Eduard Biermann
1878 - 1937
August Wolkenhauer
1877 - 1915
Hans Gluud
1875 - 1913
Otto Wilckens
1876 - 1943
Rudolf Tewes
1879 - 1965
Agnes Heineken
1872 - 1954
Heinrich Kraeger
1870 - 1945
Louis Krages (Unternehmer)
1875 - 1955
Friedrich Neumark
1876 - 1957
Auguste Papendieck
1873 - 1950
Friedrich Nölke
1877 - 1947
Mathilde Plate
1878 - 1963
Friedrich Rauers
1879 - 1954
Johannes Wiegand
1874 - 1940
Hans Osten (Astronom)
1875 - 1936
Johannes Bollmann
1873 - 1944
Hermann Grevesmühl
1878 - 1954
Alfred Lohmann
1870 - 1919
Hermann Ritter (Senator)
1878 - 1949
Gustav Adolf von Halem
1870 - 1932
Rita Bardenheuer
1877 - 1943
Wilhelm Haase-Lampe
1877 - 1950
Friedrich Roselius
1876 - 1941
Carl Wuppesahl
1873 - 1954
Friedrich Karl Biermann
1872 - 1923
Robert Rigel
1872 - 1951
Detmar Heinrich Sarnetzki
1878 - 1961
Walter Müller (Archäologe, 1877)
1877 - 1952
Bernhard Roßmann
1873 - 1960
Johann Friedrich Schröder
1879 - 1933
Gottfried Julius Bergfeld
1875 - 1934
Christian Roselius
1871 - 1945
Albert von Spreckelsen
1873 - 1951
Leopold Vellguth
1877 - 1946
Carsten Karkmeyer
1873 - 1951
Anna Schomburg
1875 - 1955
Bernhard Ahlers
1874 - 1955
Ernst Braune (Politiker, 1879)
1879 - 1954
Franz Schlunk
1872 - 1936
Carl Thalenhorst
1875 - 1964
Andreas Wegener
Born 1878
Adolf Kissling
1875 - 1955
Meta Schmidt
1878 - 1941
Julius Koch (Schriftsteller)
1870 - 1948
Marie Stumpe
1877 - 1946
Rudolph Stickelmann
1870 - 1956
Anton Albers der Jüngere
1877 - 1915
Oskar Wagener
1878 - 1942
Armin von Lossow
1876 - 1945
Johanna Leuwer
1871 - 1943
Bernhard Averbeck
1874 - 1930
Heinrich Wettig
1875 - 1938
Wilhelm Mues (Bildhauer)
1877 - 1946
Christian Albers
1870 - 1944
Peter Müller (Politiker, 1873)
1873 - 1934
Ernst Degenhardt
1877 - 1950
Sophie von Engelbrechten
1874 - 1969
Wilhelm Blase (Politiker, 1876)
1876 - 1946
Gerhard Wegener
1870 - 1917
Albert Plate
1872 - 1908
Willy Clodius
1874 - 1942
Otto Steengrafe
1877 - 1948
Friedrich Henke
1878 - 1951
Friedrich Stöxen
1872 - 1939
Heinrich Meyer (Politiker, 1871)
1871 - 1917
Bernard Meyer (Politiker)
1874 - 1958
Fritz Entholt
1874 - 1953