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 von Sybel
1817 - 1895
Ulrich Herbert
Born 1951
Wilhelm Levison
1876 - 1947
Gerd Krumeich
Born 1945
Rüdiger Overmans
Born 1954
Holger Afflerbach
Born 1960
Wilhelm Baum
Born 1948
Annette Leo
Born 1948
Leni Yahil
1912 - 2007
Walter H. Pehle
Born 1941
Karina Urbach
Born 1968
Marietta Horster
Born 1961
Gregor Schöllgen
Born 1952
Hans Jürgen Teuteberg
1929 - 2015
Hans Kloft
Born 1939
Ambrosius Eßer
1933 - 2010
Norbert Trippen
1936 - 2017
Winfried Speitkamp
Born 1958
Heinz Hürten
1928 - 2018
Gangolf Hübinger
Born 1950
Kurt Düwell
Born 1937
Raymund Kottje
1926 - 2013
Petra Schulte
Born 1970
Irene Franken
Born 1952
Wolfgang Dreßen
Born 1942
Rainer Gruenter
1918 - 1993
Jürgen Malitz
Born 1947
Gunther Barth
1925 - 2004
Jürgen Reulecke
Born 1940
Dietrich Claude
1933 - 1999
Stephan Laux
Born 1966
Georg Schöllgen
Born 1951
Elisabeth Fehrenbach
Born 1937
Anton Eitel
1882 - 1966
Elias H. Füllenbach
Born 1977
Dieter Wunder
Born 1936
Helga Schnabel-Schüle
Born 1954
Angela Genger
Born 1947
Jost Auler
Born 1958
Stefan Weiß (Historiker)
1960 - 2016
Michael Carlo Klepsch
Born 1964
Eberhard Illner
Born 1954
Rolf Winau
1937 - 2006
Sascha Möbius
Born 1968
Erich Wisplinghoff
1920 - 1999
Norbert Schloßmacher
Born 1956
Michael Fessner
Born 1957
Gisela Vollmer
1922 - 2005
Heinrich Ferber
1832 - 1895
Rainer Berndt
Born 1951