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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Pyotr Stolypin
1862 - 1911
Georgy Lvov
1861 - 1925
Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
1865 - 1932
Edith Hamilton
1867 - 1963
Prince Johann Georg of Saxony
1869 - 1938
George B. McClellan Jr.
1865 - 1940
Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867–1944)
1867 - 1944
Lyubov Dostoevskaya
1869 - 1926
Heinrich Kühn
1866 - 1944
Robert Sterl
1867 - 1932
Princess Mathilde of Saxony (born 1863)
1863 - 1933
Max von Stephanitz
1864 - 1936
Karl Friedrich Reiche
1860 - 1929
Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis
1860 - 1881
Werner Spalteholz
1862 - 1940
Michał Jan Rostworowski
1864 - 1940
Paul Arndt
1865 - 1937
Percy Sherwood
1866 - 1939
Georg Kelling
1866 - 1945
Hans Gregor
1866 - 1945
Alexander Witting
1861 - 1946
Otto Singer junior
1863 - 1931
Félix Dubois
1862 - 1945
Frederick Hervey, 4th Marquess of Bristol
1863 - 1951
Ludwig Schmidt (Historiker)
1862 - 1944
Hans Ferdinand Helmolt
1865 - 1929
Walter Harlan
1867 - 1931
Oskar Seyffert
1862 - 1940
Aristide Caradja
1861 - 1955
Hermann Fleissner
1865 - 1939
Woldemar Lippert
1861 - 1937
Paul Julius Menzel
1864 - 1927
Georg Hartmann (geographer)
1865 - 1946
Hans Hartmann-MacLean
1862 - 1946
Viktor Hantzsch
1868 - 1910
Johannes Kretzschmar (Archivar)
1864 - 1947
Erich Wulffen
1862 - 1936
Hugo Röhr
1866 - 1937
Helene Odilon
1863 - 1939
Max Pietschmann
1865 - 1952
Friedrich Kolbeck
1860 - 1943
Rudolf Kötzschke
1867 - 1949
Katharina Scheven
1861 - 1922
Oskar von der Osten-Warnitz
1862 - 1944
Johannes Kühnel (Pädagoge)
1869 - 1928
Martin Pietzsch
1866 - 1961
Richard Seyfert
1862 - 1940
Hans Gabriel Jentzsch
1862 - 1930
Emil Winter-Tymian
1860 - 1926
Friedrich Krug von Nidda und von Falkenstein – W
1860 - 1934
Richard Needon
1861 - 1931
Christoph Johann Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt
1863 - 1944
Karl von Kaskel
1866 - 1943
Walther Witting
1864 - 1940
Ilse Ohnesorge
1866 - 1937
Erwin Spindler
1860 - 1926
Emil Naetsch
1869 - 1945
Reinhard Spitzner
1863 - 1922
Richard Kockel
1865 - 1934
Alexander Rudolf Hohlfeld
1865 - 1956
Camillo Schaufuß
1862 - 1944
Alexander Otto Weber
1868 - 1927
Ernst Brandes (Politiker)
1862 - 1935
Georg Bondi
1865 - 1935
Bruno Fischer
1860 - 1932
Walther Ruge
1865 - 1943
Otto Warneyer
1867 - 1941
Georg von O’Byrn
1864 - 1942
Georg Schwenk
1863 - 1936
Hans Andresen (Schauspieler)
1863 - 1927
Gustav Adolf Gunkel
1866 - 1901
Reinhold Ruge
1862 - 1936
Rudolf Zenker (Romanist)
1862 - 1941
Hans Stock
1867 - 1947
Johannes Hübschmann
1867 - 1930
Ernst Wilhelm Just
1865 - 1945
Hans R. Hedrich
1866 - 1945
Georg Pauli (Lehrer)
1867 - 1949
Oswald Galle
1868 - 1935
Friedrich Kummer (Literaturhistoriker)
1865 - 1939
Clemens zur Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weißenfeld
1860 - 1920
Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli
1864 - 1929
Robert von Scheller-Steinwartz
1865 - 1921
Paul Miersch
1868 - 1956
Johannes Werther
1865 - 1936
Karl Ernst Hänsel
1868 - 1947
Reinhard Froehner
1868 - 1955
Ernst Noack
1861 - 1924
Albert Ernst Mühlig
1862 - 1909
Artur Georg Blachstein
1863 - 1940
Walther Scholtz
1861 - 1910
Otto Mörtzsch
1868 - 1934
Walther Falkenstein
1862 - 1940
Heinrich Henne (Ingenieur)
1865 - 1945
Ernst von Salza und Lichtenau
1860 - 1926
Johanna Lankau
1866 - 1921
Emil Gustav Adolf Glöckner
1868 - 1947
Martin Donndorf
1865 - 1937
Hanns Fischer (Schauspieler)
1862 - 1952
Emil Demmig
1865 - 1941
Franz Hettner
1863 - 1939
Bernhard Kurt Roch
1861 - 1923
Margarethe Flössel
1865 - 1888
Karl von Wuthenau
1863 - 1946
Maximilian Laur von Münchhofen
1863 - 1936
Agathon Fabergé
1862 - 1895
Paul Bach (Maler)
1866 - 1919
Sigismund Ernst Richard Krone
1861 - 1917
Max Lehnig
1864 - 1924
Robert Köller
1869 - 1906
Alfred Krause (Architekt)
1866 - 1930
Rudolph Hammer
1862 - 1926
Cilli Jürgensen
1866 - 1907
Katharina Heberlein
1868 - 1902
Georg Gröne
1864 - 1935
Paul Adolph (Intendant)
1868 - 1941
Alexander Heinrich Rietzschel
1860 - 1939
Friedrich Hecht (Bildhauer)
1865 - 1915
Holm Eppendorff
1865 - 1947
Rudolf Vitzthum von Eckstädt
1861 - 1945
Heinrich von Leipzig
1866 - 1940
Bruno Doehn
1866 - 1924
Max Bendiner
1865 - 1924
Rudolf Mädger
1860 - 1928