51.0500° N, 13.7398° E
DRESDEN
Most Famous People Born in Dresden, Germany
- Notable people
- 3,353
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- Median birth year
- 1904
- Most distinctive
- Art Historian 5.8×
A Saxon court city whose distinctive shelves are art historians, sculptors, conductors, theologians, and painters — the trades of a baroque royal city whose Gemäldegalerie, Staatskapelle, and Frauenkirche have shared the same Altstadt for three centuries. The 18th century is unusually heavy here, the age of Augustus the Strong, and the modern bench is dominated by Gerhard Richter and a generation of artists who came of age between the Allied firebombing and the fall of the Wall.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Dresden during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Dresden Is Known For
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Politician is Dresden's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (321).
Dresden over-indexes on art historian — 5.8× the global rate.
Dresden under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Dresden's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Carl Hindenburg
1741 - 1808
Joseph Schuster (composer)
1748 - 1812
Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann
1747 - 1831
Carl Friedrich Wenzel
1740 - 1793
Caroline Friederike Friedrich
1749 - 1815
Christian Ehregott Weinlig
1743 - 1813
Joseph Friedrich Freiherr von Racknitz
1744 - 1818
Franz Seydelmann
1748 - 1806
Franziska Romana Koch
1748 - 1796
August Friedrich Schott
1744 - 1792
Hanns Moritz von Brühl
1746 - 1811
Johann Andreas Gärtner
1744 - 1826
Christian Gottfried Schulze
1749 - 1819
Karl Ehregott Andreas Mangelsdorf
1748 - 1802
Henriette Bourdic-Viot
1746 - 1802
Carl Adolph von Brühl
1742 - 1802
Johann Friedrich Alexander Thiele
1747 - 1803
Albert Christian Heinrich von Brühl
1743 - 1792
Karl Adolph Caesar
1744 - 1811
Friedrich August Ermel
1740 - 1812
Gottlob August Hölzer
1744 - 1814
Christian Gottlob Einert
1747 - 1823
Johann Wilhelm Chryselius
1744 - 1793
Moritz Flavius Trenck von Tonder
1746 - 1810
August Wilhelm Hauswald
1749 - 1804
Friedrich Adolph von Burgsdorff
1743 - 1799
Christoph Heinrich Friedrich zu Solms
1741 - 1829