51.2310° N, 6.7725° E
DUSSELDORF
Most Famous People Born in Dusseldorf, Germany
- Notable people
- 2,294
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1936
- Most distinctive
- Painter 3.9×
A Rhenish art academy city whose bench is thick with painters — more than ten per cent of all notables, a share matched by very few cities in the dataset. Düsseldorf's distinctive shelves beyond that are authors, academics, sculptors, economists, and historians, and its most famous son is Heinrich Heine. The Kunstakademie is the engine that produced Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter (who taught there), and a generation of photographers; Jürgen Habermas and Wim Wenders grew up here too.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Dusseldorf during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Dusseldorf Is Known For
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Painter is Dusseldorf's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (234).
Dusseldorf over-indexes on painter — 3.9× the global rate.
Dusseldorf under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Dusseldorf's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Art & Design
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Science
- Other
- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
August Jaeger
1860 - 1909
Heinrich Hermanns
1862 - 1942
Willy Spatz
1861 - 1931
Carl Strathmann
1866 - 1939
Wilhelm Hambüchen
1869 - 1939
Max Bewer
1861 - 1921
Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe
1868 - 1939
Max Hünten
1869 - 1936
Robert Visser
1860 - 1937
Eduard Euler
1867 - 1931
Benno von Achenbach
1861 - 1936
Albert Herzfeld
1865 - 1943
Hermann Emil Pohle
1863 - 1914
Otto Dinger
1860 - 1928
Richard Lieber
1869 - 1944
Hans Wacker
1868 - 1958
Helene Simon
1862 - 1947
Friedrich Klein-Chevalier
1861 - 1938
Hermann vom Endt
1861 - 1939
Hans Stoltenberg Lerche
1867 - 1920
Franz Held (Schriftsteller)
1862 - 1908
Max Eduard Giese
1867 - 1916
Gustav Eichhorn (Physiker)
1867 - 1954
Otto Vautier
1863 - 1919
Oswald Flamm
1861 - 1935
Meinulf von Mallinckrodt
1861 - 1947
Oscar Leu
1864 - 1942
Meta Schoepp
1868 - 1939
Maria Paula Münster
1865 - 1952
Carl Rudolf Poensgen
1863 - 1946
Julius Müller-Massdorf
1863 - 1933
Minna Blanckertz
1867 - 1955
Wally Schauseil
1860 - 1951
Arnold Frische
1869 - 1944
Hans Deiters
1868 - 1922
Gustav Neuhaus
1866 - 1942
Etienne Lorck
1860 - 1933
Wilhelm Süs
1861 - 1933
Gustav Biesenbach
1862 - 1934
Franz Hubert Maria Schweitzer
1865 - 1924
Heinrich Biesenbach
1863 - 1926
Julius von Kreyfelt
1863 - 1947
Edmund Massau
1860 - 1935
Paul Brandenburg (Maler)
1866 - 1925
Vincent Deckers
1864 - 1905
Carl Hoff (Maler, 1866)
1866 - 1903
Josef Ditzen
1862 - 1931
Johann Hubert Inden
1865 - 1931
Hermann Lasch
1861 - 1926
Otto von Diepenbroick-Grüter
1860 - 1940
Gottfried Eckhardt
1865 - 1933
Otto Flecken
1860 - 1925
Max-Friedrich von Schlechtendal
1868 - 1920
Viktor Bausch (General)
1860 - 1923
Hans-Karl Rudolf von Winterfeldt
1863 - 1949
Hugo von Gahlen (Unternehmer, 1860)
1860 - 1933
Eduard Zeck
1862 - 1940
Joachim von Bredow (Politiker)
1867 - 1941
Karl Bruno Johannes Westphal
1860 - 1916
Fritz Schürmann
1863 - 1927
Peter von Krafft
1861 - 1894