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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John of Saxony
1801 - 1873
Adrian Ludwig Richter
1803 - 1884
Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust
1809 - 1886
Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony
1803 - 1829
Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel
1809 - 1885
Charles Elliot
1801 - 1875
Auguste von Harrach
1800 - 1873
François Schubert
1808 - 1878
Otto Linné Erdmann
1804 - 1869
Eduard Zeis
1807 - 1868
Karl Andreas Geyer
1809 - 1853
Eduard Brendler
1800 - 1831
Carl Heinrich Hermann
1802 - 1880
Karl von Weber
1806 - 1879
Francesco Saverio Massimo
1806 - 1848
Ludwig Gruner
1801 - 1882
Carl Julius von Leypold
1806 - 1874
Woldemar Hottenroth
1802 - 1894
Julius Thaeter
1804 - 1870
Georg Heinrich Crola
1804 - 1879
Robert Schneider (Maler, 1809)
1809 - 1885
Gustav Helbig
1808 - 1875
Emil Cauer der Ältere
1800 - 1867
Woldemar Hermann
1807 - 1878
Gaston Lenthe
1805 - 1860
Friedrich Ernst Feller
1802 - 1859
Ferdinand Stolle
1806 - 1872
Friederike Serre
1800 - 1872
Bernhard Beer
1801 - 1861
Karl Julius Sillig
1801 - 1855
Friedrich Constantin von Beust
1806 - 1891
Ernst Innozenz Hauschild
1808 - 1866
Joseph Herrmann
1800 - 1869
Karl Moritz Haenel
1809 - 1880
Benno Frederick Toermer
1804 - 1859
Wolf von Hoyer
1806 - 1873
Heinrich Schönfeld (Maler)
1809 - 1845
Robert Georgi
1802 - 1869
Henriette Heinze-Berg
1809 - 1892
Heinrich Wilhelm Schulz
1808 - 1855
Franz Lubojatzky
1807 - 1887
Friedrich Rudolf Hasse
1808 - 1862
Bernhard Stange
1807 - 1880
Moritz Müller (Maler, 1807)
1807 - 1865
Rudolf Anger
1806 - 1866
Hermann Meynert
1808 - 1895
Ferdinand Florens Fleck
1800 - 1849
Otto Kohlschütter
1807 - 1853
Julius Ludwig Klee
1807 - 1867
August Robert Friese
1805 - 1848
Emil Heine
1806 - 1873
Otto Thenius
1801 - 1876
August Friedrich Günther
1806 - 1871
Ernst Hermann Arndt
1807 - 1889
Robert Wittmann
1804 - 1891
Bernhard Moßdorf
1802 - 1833
Albert von Böhme
1804 - 1886
Heinrich Rudolph von Kyaw
1809 - 1885
Christian Coulin
1807 - 1888
Paul Hermann (Politiker)
1809 - 1862
Carl Beichling
1803 - 1876
Friedrich August William Steglich
1807 - 1870
Carl August Kramer
1807 - 1895
Bernhard Braunsdorf
1808 - 1886
Karl Julius Braunsdorf
1807 - 1883
Rudolf von Uechtritz (Verwaltungsjurist)
1803 - 1863
Ernst von Friesen
1800 - 1869
Constantin Cäsar Kellermann
1807 - 1888