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 von Cocceji
1644 - 1719
Johann Heinrich Burchard
1852 - 1912
Heinrich Wiegand
1855 - 1909
Wilhelm Haas
1896 - 1981
Christian Jacobs
Born 1962
Johann Focke
1848 - 1922
Wilhelm Melchers
1900 - 1971
Carl Georg Barkhausen
1848 - 1917
Edmund Duckwitz
Born 1949
Hans Puvogel
1911 - 1999
Karl Ludwig Neubourg
1808 - 1894
Gustav Adolph von Halem
1899 - 1999
Alexander Proelß
Born 1973
Clemens Carl Buff
1853 - 1940
Carl Degener
1900 - 1960
Hermann Albert Schumacher
1839 - 1890
Herwig Bartels
1934 - 2003
Gerhard Coccejus
1601 - 1660
Johannes Rösing (Diplomat)
1833 - 1909
Albert Heinrich von Gröning
1867 - 1951
Johann Heinrich Castendyk
1795 - 1833
Matthias Westerholt
Born 1963
Bettina Sokol
Born 1960
Antje Grotheer
Born 1967
Franz Friedrich Droste (1784–1849)
1781 - 1849
Johann Daniel Thulesius
1800 - 1850
Detlev Gross
Born 1957
Insa Peters-Rehwinkel
Born 1968
Daniel Schütte
1763 - 1850
Johann Wachmann der Jüngere
1611 - 1685
Simon Heinrich Gondela
1765 - 1832
Johann Eberhard Pavenstedt
1777 - 1860
Ferdinand Donandt (Politiker)
1803 - 1872
Johann Wachmann der Ältere
1592 - 1659
Gustav Adolf Salander
1900 - 1996
Friedrich Wilhelm Heineken
1787 - 1848
Heinrich Maas
1908 - 1981
Heinrich Flügel (Jurist)
1891 - 1940
Matthias Seeger
Born 1955
Karl Theodor Oelrichs
1804 - 1871
Tilemann Kenckel
1543 - 1582
Carl Völckers (Jurist)
1886 - 1970
Burchard Eden
1618 - 1689
Georg Wilhelm Vielhaben
1860 - 1927
Johann Georg Zierenberg
1693 - 1736
Ignatz Rosenak
1897 - 1957
Johann Eberhard Ludewig Pavenstedt
1827 - 1889
Wolfgang Kahrs
Born 1933
Albrecht Schackow
1907 - 1994
Frank Lutz
1946 - 2001
Dieter Ahlers
1921 - 2009
Peter Härtl
Born 1950
Christian Albers
1870 - 1944
Friedrich Hohrmann
1912 - 1987
Ernst Ferdinand Plump
1839 - 1900