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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Marita Lorenz
1939 - 2019
Reyhan Şahin
Born 1980
Felix Hartlaub
1913 - 1945
Hanna Johansen
Born 1939
Otto Gildemeister
1823 - 1902
Joseph Kastein
1890 - 1946
Hartmut Hegeler
Born 1946
Hermann Häfker
1873 - 1939
Gerhard Ouckama Knoop
1861 - 1913
Torsten Oltmanns
Born 1964
Wilhelm Klatte
1870 - 1930
Wilhelm Scharrelmann
1875 - 1950
Fritz Gansberg
1871 - 1950
Friedrich J. Pajeken
1855 - 1920
Adolf Schröder
1938 - 2008
Franz Fromme (Schriftsteller, 1880)
1880 - 1961
Gottfried Menken (Theologe)
1768 - 1831
Georg Droste
1866 - 1935
Emmy von Winterfeld-Warnow
1861 - 1937
Herbert Bellmer
1895 - 1950
Helmut Stelljes
Born 1933
Michael Jentzsch
Born 1975
Stefan Riße
Born 1968
Peter Kurze
Born 1955
Angela Gerrits
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Jörg-Uwe Albig
Born 1960
Wilhelm Rocco
1819 - 1897
Gottfried Hasenkamp
1902 - 1990
Hans O. E. Gronau
1925 - 2001
Otmar Leist
1921 - 2012
Karl Grobe-Hagel
Born 1936
Werner Schrader (Autor)
1928 - 2007
Richard Wätjen
1891 - 1966
Kai-Eric Fitzner
Born 1970
Alexander Fink
Born 1967
Julius H. W. Kraft
1917 - 2008
Berthold Lindemann
1929 - 2014
Wolf Christian Schröder
Born 1947
Gustav Adolf de Grahl
1793 - 1858
Ute Tietje
Born 1949
R. S. Stone
Born 1963
Cornelius Rudolf Vietor (Geistlicher, 1863) – Wi
1863 - 1932
Hans Meier (Widerstandskämpfer)
1914 - 2000
Detmar Heinrich Sarnetzki
1878 - 1961
Sabine Hildebrandt-Woeckel
Born 1959
Otto Philipp Zepper
1627 - 1666
Daniel Braubach
1767 - 1828
Gottlob Bünte
1840 - 1907
Jürgen Wellbrock
Born 1949
Elisabeth Segelken
1888 - 1965
Joe Schlosser
Born 1958
Julius Koch (Schriftsteller)
1870 - 1948
Heinrich Helmers
1847 - 1908
Helga Nordhausen
1929 - 2012
Marc Gore
Born 1974
Ludwig Hackerott
1906 - 1997