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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.