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.
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- Filtered to 1870s Clear ×
Hanns Heinz Ewers
1871 - 1943
Otto Witte
1872 - 1958
Rodolphe Seeldrayers
1876 - 1955
Hans Lietzmann
1875 - 1942
Matthias Göring
1879 - 1945
Arthur Spiethoff
1873 - 1957
Carl Sonnenschein
1876 - 1929
Wilhelm Levison
1876 - 1947
Helene Bechstein
1876 - 1951
Alfred Sohn-Rethel (peintre)
1875 - 1958
Jakob Erbar
1878 - 1935
Heinrich Rondi
1877 - 1948
Adam Wrede
1875 - 1960
Karl Heiland
1876 - 1932
Ernst Gottschalk (Bildhauer)
1877 - 1942
Gerhard Morgenstjerne Munthe
1875 - 1927
Ernst Poensgen
1871 - 1949
Max Stern (Maler)
1872 - 1943
Jenny Hoppe
1870 - 1934
Hans Deiker
1876 - 1910
Otto Sohn-Rethel
1877 - 1949
Emmy Stein
1879 - 1954
Hans Kohlschein
1879 - 1948
Roland Anheisser
1877 - 1949
Benedikt Schmittmann
1872 - 1939
Reinhard Mumm
1873 - 1932
Erich Nikutowski
1872 - 1921
Heinz May
1878 - 1954
Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz
1873 - 1915
Leonore Niessen-Deiters
1879 - 1939
Franz Kiederich
1873 - 1950
Julius Jungheim
1878 - 1957
Hermann Dick (Maler)
1875 - 1958
Arthur Simons
1877 - 1942
Albert Engstfeld
1876 - 1956
Heinrich Baucke
1875 - 1915
Gustav Melcher
1878 - 1966
Paul Heidelbach
1870 - 1954
Dietrich Preyer
1877 - 1959
Bodo Spiethoff (Dermatologe)
1875 - 1948
Alfred Zintgraff
1878 - 1944
Oswald Kohut
1877 - 1951
Gregor von Bochmann der Jüngere
1878 - 1914
Ludwig Heinrich Heyne
1878 - 1914
Franz Maria von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels
1876 - 1947
Hermann Pütz
1878 - 1928
Heinrich Schmittmann
1878 - 1956
Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck
1870 - 1919
Adolf Hasenkamp
1874 - 1936
Theodor Scheffer
1872 - 1945
Paul Kukuk
1877 - 1967
Friedrich August Herkendell
1876 - 1940
Kurt Seebohm
1870 - 1946
Carl Deiker
1879 - 1958
Peter Gilles (Politiker)
1874 - 1968
Peter Neuenheuser
1877 - 1940
Otto Engels
1875 - 1960
Carl Hertel (Richter)
1879 - 1958
Friedrich Voß (Zoologe)
1877 - 1950
Karl Axmacher
1874 - 1952
Georg Spickhoff
1872 - 1959
Christopher Munthe
1879 - 1958
Paul Stein (Bergbauingenieur)
1874 - 1956
Anton Hackenbroich
1878 - 1969
Alexander Essfeld
1874 - 1939
Carl Flamm
1870 - 1914
Ernst Hoff
1872 - 1932
Josef von Spee
1876 - 1941
Oscar Adolf Adorno
1872 - 1937
Ernst Ewers
1873 - 1940
Peter Muckel
1872 - 1943
Carl Gustav Blanckertz
1873 - 1953
Alfred Adloff
Born 1874
Stanislaus zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
1872 - 1958
Clara von der Schulenburg
1874 - 1951
Emil Frische
1872 - 1916
Paul Blumberger
1879 - 1946
Willy Kukuk
1875 - 1944
Anna Wrangel
1876 - 1941