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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Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff
1921 - 1998
Günter Meisner
1926 - 1994
Manfred Zapatka
Born 1942
Mirko Lang
Born 1978
Volker Spengler
1939 - 2020
Gerd Baltus
1932 - 2019
Gerry Wolff
1920 - 2005
Jane Baxter
1909 - 1996
Karl Dannemann
1896 - 1945
Christa Tordy
1904 - 1945
Andreas Kunze
1952 - 2010
Julia Bremermann
Born 1967
Otto Kurth
1912 - 1996
Carla Rust
1908 - 1977
Violetta (performer)
Born 1906
Gustav Botz
1857 - 1932
Max Nemetz
1886 - 1971
Norman Kalle
Born 1973
Carl Kuhlmann
1899 - 1962
Anna-Lena Schwing
Born 1996
Julia Engelmann
Born 1992
Lara Trautmann
Born 1988
Peter Weis
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Inge Birkmann
1915 - 2004
Harald Halgardt
1927 - 2019
Marianne Christina Schilling
1928 - 2012
Friedel Nowack
1901 - 1988
Lennard Bertzbach
Born 1988
Susanne Szell
Born 1965
Christiane Bachschmidt
Born 1958
Sven Walser
Born 1963
Julia Grimpe
Born 1969
Ralf Gregan
Born 1933
Christoph Hagen Dittmann
Born 1965
Stephan Meyer-Kohlhoff
Born 1962
Hela Gruel
1902 - 1991
Nico Santos (singer)
Born 1993
Hans Dieter Zeidler
1926 - 1998
Yorck Dippe
Born 1969
Jörg Ratjen
Born 1963
Verena Wiet
1925 - 2011
Katharina Voß
1967 - 2018
Werner Bokelberg
Born 1937
Rebecca Lina
Born 1980
Moritz Zielke
Born 1973
Peter Lakenmacher
Born 1942
Janne Drücker
Born 1981
Peter Parten
Born 1938
Charlotte Asendorf
1919 - 2007
Sandra Quadflieg
Born 1979
Friedrich Forster
1895 - 1958
Alana Bock
Born 1969
Christian Ahlers
Born 1974
Anne Düe
Born 1982
Hans Helge Ott
Born 1951
Therese Ringelhardt
1819 - 1892
Karla Sengteller
Born 1990
Stefan Maaß
Born 1965
Marcantonio Moschettini
Born 1972
Edda Loges
Born 1942
Annemarie Cordes
1918 - 1998
Andreas Köss
1961 - 2019
Katalyn Bohn
Born 1975
Richard Handwerk
Born 1894
Otto Nebelthau
1894 - 1943
Lotte Meyer
1909 - 1991
Lia Perez
Born 1982
Lutz Schwiers
1904 - 1983
Thomas Schiestl
1935 - 2017
Juliette Greco (Schauspielerin)
Born 1981
Jan Aust
Born 1941
Kim Adler
Born 1979
Rudolf Koch-Riehl
1900 - 1956
Ercan Altun
Born 1968
Ingo Günther (Musiker)
Born 1965
Roman Schomburg
Born 1992
Elisabeth Kuhlmann
Born 1907
Ingeborg Heydorn
1930 - 2016
Christian Bummerstedt
1891 - 1932
Horst W. Blome
Born 1937
Feline Lang
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Julia Hentschel
Born 1968
Kathrin Lindner
Born 1976
Helmut Stange (Schauspieler)
1929 - 2018
Andreas Erfurth
Born 1965
Vanessa Glinka
Born 1977
Hans Rolf Radula
1921 - 1987
Maurice Walter
Born 1998
Lilly Barshy
Born 2002
Victor Tacik
1912 - 1975
Gordon Murphy Kirchmeyer
Born 1974
Willy Clodius
1874 - 1942