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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Heinrich Scharrelmann
1871 - 1940
Gert-Ulrich Buurman
1936 - 2013
Caspar Kuhlmann
1926 - 1990
Agnes Heineken
1872 - 1954
Elisabeth Forck
1900 - 1988
Johannes Wiegand
1874 - 1940
Anna Vietor
1860 - 1929
Adolf Friedrich Furchau (Pädagoge)
1752 - 1819
Friedrich Kühlken
1898 - 1973
Christoffer Wessel Debbe
1837 - 1912
Friedrich Entholt
1823 - 1916
Jakob Blendermann
1783 - 1862
Carsten Karkmeyer
1873 - 1951
Heinrich Rump
1768 - 1837
Magda Böttner
1858 - 1937
Anna Schomburg
1875 - 1955
Bernhard Ahlers
1874 - 1955
Hans Ernst Christian Lüdeking
1864 - 1945
Rudolph Feuß
1862 - 1945