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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Ann-Kristin Achleitner
Born 1966
Arthur Spiethoff
1873 - 1957
Martin Hellwig
Born 1949
Michael Hüther
Born 1962
Joachim Weimann
Born 1956
Adolf G. Coenenberg
Born 1938
Malte Michael Faber
Born 1938
Walther Müller-Jentsch
Born 1935
Theo Siegert
Born 1947
Bernd Skiera
Born 1966
Arndt Sorge
Born 1945
Michael Vogel
Born 1967
Ulrich Briefs
1939 - 2005
Martin Quaas
Born 1974
Martin Nell
1960 - 2015
Horst Seelbach
Born 1938
Paul Braess
1904 - 1974
Adolf Hasenkamp
1874 - 1936
Frank Heinemann (Ökonom)
Born 1961
Walter Scheele
1926 - 2016
Eckart Zwicker
Born 1939
Bernd W. Wirtz
Born 1964
Frank Mühlenbeck
Born 1975
August Flender
1899 - 1982