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.

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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Showing 102 of 1,896 notable people

0041 ACTOR

Manfred Zapatka

Born 1942

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0052 POLITICIAN

Petra Roth

Born 1944

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0084 POLITICIAN

Jens Böhrnsen

Born 1949

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0097 COMPOSER

Christina Kubisch

Born 1948

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0157 PHILOSOPHER

Arnold Schölzel

Born 1947

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0164 RACING

Louis Krages

1949 - 2001

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0197 WRITER

Hartmut Hegeler

Born 1946

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0201 FOOTBALL

Dieter Zembski

Born 1946

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0214 HISTORIAN

Klaus Naumann (historian)

Born 1949

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0279 PHYSICIAN

R. Heiner Schirmer

1942 - 2016

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0287 MATHEMATICIAN

Wolfgang Vogel

1940 - 1996

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0344 FOOTBALL

Herbert Meyer (footballer)

Born 1948

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0353 THEORIST

Der Honigmann

1946 - 2018

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0372 SCREENWRITER

Horst Königstein

1945 - 2013

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0429 ATHLETIC

Klaus-Peter Hennig

Born 1947

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0433 THEATER

Ruth Walz

Born 1941

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0479 HISTORIAN

Horst Pietschmann

Born 1940

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0492 JOURNALIST

Ralf-Dieter Brunowsky

Born 1949

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0522 FOOTBALL

Gerhard Zebrowski

1940 - 2020

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0536 LITERARY

Jürgen Dierking

1946 - 2016

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0543 LAWYER

Edmund Duckwitz

Born 1949

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0565 ACTOR

Peter Lakenmacher

Born 1942

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0602 ACADEMIC

Jürgen Freyschmidt

Born 1940

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0612 POLITICIAN

Bringfriede Kahrs

Born 1943

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0629 ECONOMIST

Sönke Albers

Born 1948

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0674 ACTOR

Edda Loges

Born 1942

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0686 HISTORIAN

Fredy Meyer

Born 1945

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0742 LEUTNANT

Rolf Portz

Born 1940

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0756 POLITICIAN

Dagmar Luuk

Born 1940

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0767 AUTHOR

Hella Eckert

Born 1948

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0783 POLITICIAN

Bernd Meyer (Politiker)

Born 1946

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0784 BOTSCHAFTER

Horst Winkelmann

Born 1940

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0790 FOOTBALL

Dieter Ficken

Born 1944

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0791 ACTOR

Jan Aust

Born 1941

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0797 JUDO

Gotthart Kuppel

Born 1946

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0799 NEUROSCIENTIST

Uwe Windhorst

Born 1946

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0803 COMPOSER

Wolf Burbat

Born 1946

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0809 ACADEMIC

Wolfram Malte Fues

Born 1944

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0811 FOOTBALL

Klaus-Dieter Fischer

Born 1940

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0817 FOOTBALL

Jürgen Ey

Born 1946

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0828 ILLUSTRATOR

Volker Ernsting

Born 1941

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0834 JUDGE

Ottmar Breidling

Born 1947

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0883 VORSITZENDER

Rolf Priemer

1940 - 2017

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0905 MANAGER

Fritz Bokelmann

Born 1940

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0914 ACADEMIC

Gudrun Scholz (Kunstwissenschaftlerin)

Born 1947

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0923 SINGER

Lydia Huber

Born 1943

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0939 HISTORIAN

Wolfhard Weber

Born 1940

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0962 MATHEMATICIAN

Wolf von Wahl

Born 1942

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0964 MUSEUM DIRECTOR

Klaus-Peter Schulz (Heimatforscher)

1942 - 2013

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0985 PHOTOGRAPHER

Rüdiger Lubricht

Born 1947

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1002 ACADEMIC

Horst Irretier

1949 - 2016

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1016 POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Rose

Born 1947

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1025 ACADEMIC

Insa Fooken

Born 1947

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1047 POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Schrörs

1949 - 2019

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1061 POLITICIAN

Rudolf Fischer (Politiker, 1940)

Born 1940

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1092 WRITER

Wolf Christian Schröder

Born 1947

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1104 ACADEMIC

Barbara Fegebank

Born 1946

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1123 FOOTBALL

Rolf Kaemmer

Born 1949

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1145 WRITER

Ute Tietje

Born 1949

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1149 DIPLOMAT

Matthias von Kummer

1947 - 2017

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1153 PAINTER

Gisela Fox-Düvell

Born 1946

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1168 FOOTBALL

Hans-Joachim Osmers

Born 1948

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1175 AUTHOR

Nepomuk Ullmann

Born 1943

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1176 POLITICIAN

Sabine Uhl

Born 1945

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1184 JOURNALIST

Dieter Hünerkoch

Born 1944

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1206 SCULPTOR

Thomas Recker

Born 1946

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1212 POLITICIAN

Helmut Weigelt

Born 1948

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1220 PAINTER

Peter Zimmermann (Maler)

1941 - 2007

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1221 AUTHOR

Heinz Holtgrefe

Born 1949

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1227 PRESERVATIONIST

Heinz Riepshoff

Born 1946

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1249 JOURNALIST

Volker Rapsch

Born 1949

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1253 ENGINEER

Holger Wesemüller

Born 1948

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1312 WRITER

Jürgen Wellbrock

Born 1949

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1340 SEGLER

Berend Beilken

Born 1940

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1403 SWIMMER

Rainer Jacob

Born 1946

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1418 POLITICIAN

Rolf Vogelsang

Born 1945

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1423 POLITICIAN

Wilhelm Hinners

Born 1949

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1431 POLITICIAN

Julie Kohlrausch

Born 1948

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1468 POLITICIAN

Brigitte Dreyer

Born 1946

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1493 ROWER

Jochen Heck

Born 1947

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1551 POLITICIAN

Rainer Stinner

Born 1947

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1619 KOMMENTATOR

Walter Jasper

Born 1942

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1621 DIPLOMAT

Uwe Schramm

Born 1941

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1622 POLITICIAN

Manfred Fluß

Born 1943

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1627 DIPLOMAT

Claas Dieter Knoop

Born 1945

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1632 POLITICIAN

Peter Senft

Born 1949

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1642 MISSING

Friedrich Judel

Born 1948

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1662 LAWYER

Frank Lutz

1946 - 2001

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1665 POLITICIAN

Heinz Krahmer

1941 - 1992

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1669 POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Grotheer

Born 1949

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1673 CINEMA

Wolfgang J. G. Jung

Born 1948

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1700 POLITICIAN

Hermann Stichweh

1940 - 2014

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1758 POLITICIAN

Rolf Herderhorst

Born 1946

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1761 POLITICIAN

Brigitte Sauer

Born 1948

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1779 POLITICIAN

J. Henry Wilhelms

Born 1940

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1796 POLITICIAN

Hasso Kulla

Born 1942

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1797 POLITICIAN

Almut Haker

Born 1942

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1810 POLITICIAN

Jürgen Janke

Born 1948

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1838 POLITICIAN

Waltraud Hammerström

Born 1948

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1883 POLITICIAN

Karl-Wilhelm Busch

Born 1946

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1887 POLITICIAN

Uwe Voigt (Politiker, 1945)

Born 1945

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1894 MISSING

Heiko Jütte

Born 1941

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