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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- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Ludwig Renn
1889 - 1979
Felix von Luckner
1881 - 1966
Hans Oster
1887 - 1945
Erwin Stresemann
1889 - 1972
Hans von Tschammer und Osten
1887 - 1943
Martin Dibelius
1883 - 1947
Wilibald Gurlitt
1889 - 1963
Hermann Glöckner
1889 - 1987
Fritz Schade
1880 - 1926
Leopold von Hoesch
1881 - 1936
Hugo Weigold
1886 - 1973
Adolph Jentsch
1888 - 1977
Ernst Woermann
1888 - 1979
William Threlfall
1888 - 1949
Edgar Irmscher
1887 - 1968
Traute Carlsen
1887 - 1968
Theodor Blumer
1881 - 1964
Grete Beier
1885 - 1908
Otto von Erdmannsdorff
1888 - 1978
Erhard Lommatzsch
1886 - 1975
Max Bing
1885 - 1945
Julius von Zech-Burkersroda
1885 - 1946
Gertrude Aretz
1889 - 1938
Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Katschalow
1883 - 1961
Willy Merté
1889 - 1948
Hanns von Meyenburg
1887 - 1971
Prince Gustav of Thurn and Taxis
1888 - 1919
Otto Baer
1880 - 1947
Otto Bang-Haas
1882 - 1948
Ludwig Heyde
1888 - 1961
Leopold Richter
1885 - 1941
Eberhard Hempel
1886 - 1967
Kurt Striegler
1886 - 1958
Robert Prager
1888 - 1918
Vali von der Osten
1882 - 1923
Heinrich Arnhold
1885 - 1935
Wolfgang Schumann (1887–1964)
1887 - 1964
Arno Neumann
1885 - 1966
Eduard Weitsch
1883 - 1955
Manfred Pollatz
1886 - 1964
Paul Assmann
1881 - 1967
Karl Josef Friedrich
1888 - 1965
Paul Aron
1886 - 1955
Friedrich Palitzsch
1889 - 1932
Johannes Leipoldt
1880 - 1965
Friedrich Markus Huebner
1886 - 1964
Eva Büttner
1886 - 1969
Etha Richter
1883 - 1977
Maria Hofen
1886 - 1970
Ernst Lehmann (Biologe)
1880 - 1957
Hans Löscher (Pädagoge)
1881 - 1946
Arthur Pfeifer
1884 - 1976
Wilhelm Franz Reuss
1886 - 1945
Willibald Wiercinski-Keiser
1888 - 1944
Fritz Adler
1889 - 1970
Kurt Gerlach (Schriftsteller)
1889 - 1976
Alfred Günther
1885 - 1969
Karl Buchheim
1889 - 1982
Friedrich Heubner
1886 - 1974
Kurt Schumann (Pädagoge)
1885 - 1970
Ewald Geißler
1880 - 1946
Hubert Georg Ermisch
1883 - 1951
Paul Merker (Literaturhistoriker)
1881 - 1945
Wolfgang Balzer (Kunsthistoriker)
1884 - 1968
Eberhard von Cranach-Sichart
1886 - 1967
Martin Knauthe
1889 - 1942
Johanna Ewald
1885 - 1961
Rudolf Kluge
1889 - 1945
Christiaan Kriens
1881 - 1934
Kurt Müller (Archäologe)
1880 - 1972
Hans Stohwasser
1884 - 1967
Richard Birnstengel
1881 - 1968
Hans Conradi
1886 - 1956
Arthur Franz (Romanist)
1881 - 1963
Kurt Bärbig
1889 - 1968
Erich Buchwald-Zinnwald
1884 - 1972
Emil von Sauer (Jurist)
1889 - 1967
Georg Roch
1881 - 1943
Rudolf Lehmann (Ethnologe)
1887 - 1969
Erik Enderlein
1887 - 1947
Karl Paul Andrae
1886 - 1945
Arndt von Kirchbach
1885 - 1963
Marga Wolf
1880 - 1944
Hermann Vermeil
1889 - 1959
Richard Partzsch
1881 - 1953
William Baring (Maler)
1881 - 1961
Hubert Rüther
1886 - 1945
Alfred Olscher
1887 - 1946
Otto Hermann Brandt
1883 - 1934
Max Wogritsch
1880 - 1951
Lilly Dieckmann
1882 - 1958
Artur Henne
1887 - 1962
Walter Schöne
1885 - 1943
Curt Oehme
1883 - 1963
Curt Herfurth
1880 - 1942
Erich Ockert
1889 - 1953
Erich Kühn (Schriftsteller, 1887)
1887 - 1953
Herbert K. E. Beger
1889 - 1955
Marcellina von Kuenburg
1883 - 1973
Georg Jedicke
1887 - 1969
Wolfgang Harlan
1882 - 1951
Robert Grießbach
1886 - 1970
Martin Kaubisch
1888 - 1941
Walther Grützner
1881 - 1951
Ludwig Krieger
1887 - 1974
Gertraud Enderlein
1887 - 1962
Hans Schmidt (Philosoph)
1882 - 1933
Martin Nippe
1883 - 1940
Max Friese
1883 - 1958
Gustav Meyer-Buchwald
1881 - 1918
Friedrich Arnecke
1884 - 1945
Kurt Hängekorb
1886 - 1962
Wolf Dietrich von Kottwitz
1889 - 1933
Paul Scholze
1886 - 1938
Georg Seiring
1883 - 1972
Julius E. Herrmann
1883 - 1944
Kurt Arnhold
1887 - 1951
Otto Winkler
1885 - 1960
Alfred Schrapel
1885 - 1945
Johannes Richter (Pädagoge)
1882 - 1944
Martin Richter (Politiker, 1886)
1886 - 1954
Lothar Enderlein
1880 - 1942
Franz Klinghardt
1882 - 1956
Felix Eichler
1883 - 1955
Johannes Hofmann (Bibliothekar)
1888 - 1954
Kurt Göcke
1884 - 1976
Johannes Zschucke
1887 - 1953
Käthe von Schuch-Schmidt
1885 - 1973
Richard Schnauder
1886 - 1956
Carl Ludwig Krug von Nidda
1885 - 1976
Friedrich Wilhelm Hendel
1887 - 1947
Werner Hagemann
1881 - 1960
Hermann Alt
1889 - 1954
Burghard von der Decken
1884 - 1969
Arnold Libbertz
1882 - 1935
Walter Lippe
1885 - 1963
Johann Erich Gottschalch
1884 - 1938
William Zipperer
1884 - 1945
Hans Arnhold (Bankier)
1888 - 1966
Walter Grellmann
1888 - 1933
Elsa Munscheid
1881 - 1956
Hugo Paul (Politiker, 1882)
1882 - 1957
Rudolf Born
1882 - 1969
Konrad Haase
1888 - 1963
Alfred Althus
1888 - 1943
Albin Swoboda Jr.
1883 - 1970
Johannes Waldemar Karsch
1881 - 1939
Ernst Wolf (Admiral)
1886 - 1964
Martin Worm
Born 1887
Willi Heßlich
1882 - 1940
Kurt Hitke
1889 - 1979
Walter Fischer (Bergsteiger)
1880 - 1960
Arthur Ernst Berger
1882 - 1926
Alfred Schmieder
1883 - 1942
Franz Weschke
1883 - 1944
Johannes Knorr
1888 - 1959
Otto Wyrgatsch
1884 - 1933
Otto Gedlich
1887 - 1936
Waldemar Unger
1881 - 1961
Bruno Hauff (Politiker)
1885 - 1932
Walter Kunze (Politiker, 1884)
1884 - 1972
Adolf Arnhold
1884 - 1950
Max Zipfel
1883 - 1964