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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Heinrich Spoerl
1887 - 1955
Frederick Niecks
1845 - 1924
John H. Herz
1908 - 2005
Anja Lundholm
1918 - 2007
Jana Frey
Born 1969
Martin Baltscheit
Born 1965
Sabine Klewe
Born 1966
Kai Ivo Baulitz
Born 1971
Max Bewer
1861 - 1921
Steffen Jacobs
Born 1968
Theodor Weißenborn
Born 1933
Hendrik Jackson
Born 1971
Hermann Harry Schmitz
1880 - 1913
Stephan Harbort
Born 1964
Mithu Sanyal
Born 1971
Alexandra Fischer-Hunold
Born 1966
Stefan Bollmann
Born 1958
Karl Emerich Krämer
1918 - 1987
Nelly Dix
1923 - 1955
Horst Pukallus
Born 1949
Rolf Bongs
1907 - 1981
Heinz-Norbert Jocks
Born 1955
Michael Jungblut
1937 - 2020
Karl Ude
1906 - 1997
Manuela Reichart
Born 1950
Jörg Bremer
Born 1952
Ingrid Schmitz
Born 1955
Bernd Wunder
Born 1938
Rainer Schmidt (Journalist)
Born 1964
Rainer Bartel (Autor)
Born 1952
Michael K. Iwoleit
Born 1962
Henning Heske
Born 1960
Lilly Axster
Born 1963
Annette Neubauer
Born 1963
Markus Winter
Born 1973
Angelika Janz
Born 1952
Rüdiger Esch
Born 1966
Susanne Ehmcke
1906 - 1982
Sven-André Dreyer
Born 1973
Susanne Gerdom
Born 1958
Jan Knippers
Born 1962
Wilhelm Pferdekamp
1901 - 1966
Herbert Kundler
1926 - 2004
Bernd Zipper
Born 1967
Kai Metzger
Born 1960
Britta Schulze-Thulin
Born 1966
Klaus De Rottwinkel
Born 1958
Wilhelm Adolf Lindau
1774 - 1849
Leander Winkels
Born 1996
Jörg Metes
Born 1959
Anne Katrin Matyssek
Born 1968
Wilhelm Dittgen
1912 - 1997
Helmut Apffel
1911 - 2007
Maria Paula Münster
1865 - 1952
Johannes Colerus
1647 - 1707
Alice Spies-Neufert
1896 - 1990
Kurt Reichenberger
1922 - 2008
Siegfried Thalheimer
1899 - 1981
Rudi vom Endt
1892 - 1966
Ingo Vogel
Born 1963
Jürgen von Hollander
1923 - 1985
Barbara Ming
Born 1946
Mario Pufahl
Born 1971
Jürgen Preuss
Born 1942
Annemarie Fromme-Bechem
1909 - 1992
Hen Hermanns
Born 1953
Martin Maier-Bode
Born 1966
Susanne Ptak
Born 1964
Johannes Werner Klein
1898 - 1984
Käte Reiter
1927 - 2013
Hank Zerbolesch
Born 1981
Rosi Wanner
Born 1961
Walter Kordt
1899 - 1972
Horst Landau
Born 1937