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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- Field: Painter Clear ×
Oswald Achenbach
1827 - 1905
Peter von Cornelius
1784 - 1867
Peter von Hess
1792 - 1871
Wilhelm Camphausen
1818 - 1885
Konrad Klapheck
Born 1935
Peter Janssen
1844 - 1908
Otto Hupp
1859 - 1949
Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth
1855 - 1928
Heinrich Maria von Hess
1798 - 1863
Heinrich Christoph Kolbe
1771 - 1836
Lambert Krahe
1712 - 1790
Karl Rudolf Sohn
1845 - 1908
Theodor Hagen (artist)
1842 - 1919
Clemens von Zimmermann
1788 - 1869
Karl von Appen
1900 - 1981
Bele Bachem
1916 - 2005
Emilie Preyer
1849 - 1930
Lorenz Clasen
1812 - 1899
Mariele Neudecker
Born 1965
Werner Peiner
1897 - 1984
Johann Peter von Langer
1756 - 1824
Olof Jernberg
1855 - 1935
Heinrich Hermanns
1862 - 1942
Max Volkhart
1848 - 1924
Nils Gude
1859 - 1908
Eduard Wilhelm Pose
1812 - 1878
Marta Hegemann
1894 - 1970
Carl Strathmann
1866 - 1939
Wilhelm Hambüchen
1869 - 1939
Otto von Wätjen
1881 - 1942
Alfred Sohn-Rethel (peintre)
1875 - 1958
Johannes Spilberg
1619 - 1690
Johann Gerhard Huck
1759 - 1811
Albert Arnz
1832 - 1914
Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe
1868 - 1939
Max Hünten
1869 - 1936
Andrea Lehmann
Born 1975
Michael Jäger (artist)
Born 1956
Arnold Forstmann
1842 - 1914
Ulrich Leman
1885 - 1988
Carl Adloff
1819 - 1863
Jürgen Waller
Born 1939
Robert von Langer
1783 - 1846
Franz Müller (peintre)
1843 - 1929
Karl Mücke
1847 - 1923
Curt Lahs
1893 - 1958
Konrad Fischer (Maler)
1939 - 1996
Eduard Euler
1867 - 1931
Ludwig Egidius Ronig
1885 - 1959
Markus Vater
Born 1970
Albert Herzfeld
1865 - 1943
Wilhelm-Joseph Heine
1813 - 1839
Winfred Gaul
1928 - 2003
Willy Reetz
1892 - 1963
Jacobus Leisten
1844 - 1918
Bernhard Gobiet
1892 - 1945
Gerhard Morgenstjerne Munthe
1875 - 1927
Hermann Emil Pohle
1863 - 1914
Max Stern (Maler)
1872 - 1943
Clara Ewald
1859 - 1948
Hans Andreas Dahl
1881 - 1919
Moritz Blanckarts
1839 - 1883
Arnold Schulten
1809 - 1874
Oswald Petersen
1903 - 1992
Otto Dinger
1860 - 1928
Peter Edward Stroehling
1768 - 1826
Egon Wilden
1894 - 1931
Jenny Hoppe
1870 - 1934
Hans Deiker
1876 - 1910
Hella Santarossa
Born 1949
Karli Sohn-Rethel
1882 - 1966
Anton Clemens Lünenschloss
1678 - 1763
Hans Wacker
1868 - 1958
Anton Schäffer
1722 - 1799
Wilhelm Beckmann (Maler)
1852 - 1942
Carl Lambertz
1910 - 1996
Hans Kohlschein
1879 - 1948
Theo Champion
1887 - 1952
Else Sehrig-Vehling
1897 - 1994
Carl Hilgers
1818 - 1890
Roland Anheisser
1877 - 1949
Stefan Kürten
Born 1963
Carl Plückebaum
1880 - 1952
Diether Kressel
1925 - 2015
Heinrich Böhmer (Maler)
1852 - 1907
Frans van der Mijn
1719 - 1783
Johann Joseph Langenhöffel
1750 - 1807
Friedrich Klein-Chevalier
1861 - 1938
Ursula Benser
1915 - 2001
Joseph Heydendahl
1844 - 1906
Konrad Lessing
1852 - 1916
Fritz Beinke
1842 - 1907
Carl Maria Seyppel
1847 - 1913
Friedrich Hiddemann
1829 - 1892
Erich Nikutowski
1872 - 1921
Lore Schill
1890 - 1968
Verena Landau
Born 1965
Josef Kohlschein der Jüngere
1884 - 1958
Friederike Michelsen
Born 1923
Heinz May
1878 - 1954
Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz
1873 - 1915
Theodor Groll (Maler)
1857 - 1913
Willi Tillmans
1888 - 1985
Jochem Poensgen
Born 1931
Max Eduard Giese
1867 - 1916
Erich von Perfall
1882 - 1961
Adolf de Haer
1892 - 1944
Christian Hellmich
Born 1977
Anita Blum-Paulmichl
1911 - 1981
Franz Kiederich
1873 - 1950
Julius Jungheim
1878 - 1957
Hermann Dick (Maler)
1875 - 1958
Dietrich Monten
1799 - 1843
Mathias Barz
1895 - 1982
Carl Jungheim
1830 - 1886
Bettina Semmer
Born 1955
Fritz Lange (Maler)
1851 - 1922
Rose Marie Stuckert-Schnorrenberg
Born 1926
Michael Burges
Born 1954
Ute Langanky
Born 1957
Albert Engstfeld
1876 - 1956
Christoph Schellberg
Born 1973
Gustav Melcher
1878 - 1966
Otto Vautier
1863 - 1919
Fritz Sonderland
1836 - 1896
Waltraud Markmann Kawinski
1931 - 2012
Martha von Stuckrad
1854 - 1930
Fritz Feigler
1889 - 1948
Joseph Scheurenberg
1846 - 1914
Jakob Wilhelm Hüber
1787 - 1871
Heinrich Lessing
1856 - 1930
August Hermann Knoop
1856 - 1900
Hans-Joachim Sohn-Rethel
1905 - 1955
Joseph Wilms
1814 - 1892
Theodor Hamacher
1825 - 1865
Franz Cremer
1845 - 1908
Hans Schröers
1903 - 1969
Georg Hambüchen
1901 - 1971
Paul Schwietzke
Born 1952
Wilhelm Klein (Maler)
1821 - 1897
Gunther Keusen
Born 1939
Albert Holz
1884 - 1954
Oscar Leu
1864 - 1942
Carl Clasen
1812 - 1886
Hans Dornbach
1885 - 1952
Fabian Weinecke
1968 - 2012
Ludwig Heinrich Heyne
1878 - 1914
Walter Gondolf
1912 - 1989
Carl Otto Fey
1894 - 1971
Stefan Hoderlein
Born 1960
Paula Monjé
1849 - 1919
Julius Müller-Massdorf
1863 - 1933
Joseph Bernardi
1826 - 1907
Remigius Netzer
1916 - 1985
Jakob Fischer-Rhein
1888 - 1976
Daniela Flörsheim
Born 1953
Heinrich Hartung IV.
1888 - 1966
Edmund Anton Kohlschein
1900 - 1996
Ernst Schmitz (Maler)
1859 - 1917
Eduard Schloemann
1888 - 1940
Richard Sohn
1834 - 1912
Felix Kreutzer
1835 - 1876
Friedhelm Riegel
Born 1935
Eduard Schoenfeld
1839 - 1885
Julius Bayerle
1826 - 1873
Georg Schmitz (Maler)
1851 - 1917
Philipp Schmitz (Maler)
1824 - 1887
Thomas Kohl (Maler)
Born 1960
Friedrich August Herkendell
1876 - 1940
Heinrich Wieschebrink
1852 - 1885
Joseph Minjon
1816 - 1898
Gabriele Loschelder
Born 1962
Lambert Cornelius
1778 - 1823
Franz Kels
1828 - 1893
Wilhelm Schmetz
1890 - 1938
Alfred Rasenberger
1885 - 1948
Wilhelm Süs
1861 - 1933
Paul Preyer
1847 - 1931
Pia Dehne
Born 1964
Carl Deiker
1879 - 1958
Gerhard Sippmann
1790 - 1866
Willy E. Nocken
1919 - 1995
Wilhelm Porttmann
1819 - 1893
Conrad Peter Bergmann
1886 - 1972
Otto Leu
1855 - 1922
Hans Zimmermann (Maler)
1881 - 1961
Josef Winkelirer
Born 1800
Heinrich Aschenbroich
1839 - 1909
Erwin Eichbaum
Born 1928
Julius von Kreyfelt
1863 - 1947
Hans Seyppel
1886 - 1945
Aenni Hartung
1891 - 1983
Edmund Massau
1860 - 1935
Franz Witte
1927 - 1971
Karl Axmacher
1874 - 1952
Clara von Wille
1837 - 1883
Carl Schultze (Maler)
1856 - 1926
Ludwig Lanckow
1845 - 1908
Hubert Schöllgen
1897 - 1978
Christopher Munthe
1879 - 1958
Julius Kruchen
1845 - 1912
Paul Brandenburg (Maler)
1866 - 1925
Friedrich Arthur Wittig
1894 - 1962
Vincent Deckers
1864 - 1905
Carl Hoff (Maler, 1866)
1866 - 1903
Adolf Graß
1841 - 1926
Anton Hackenbroich
1878 - 1969
Alexander Essfeld
1874 - 1939
Carl Flamm
1870 - 1914
Eva Krause
Born 1970
Wilhelm Breckvelt
1658 - 1687
Alfred Breitenstein
1828 - 1853
August Leu (Maler, 1852)
1852 - 1876
Hermann Lasch
1861 - 1926
Ferdinand Carl Cürten
1892 - 1945
Anton Eitel (Kupferstecher)
1841 - 1928
Walter Hemming
1894 - 1979
Aloys Cornelius
1748 - 1800
Gottfried Eckhardt
1865 - 1933
Eduard Lotz
1818 - 1890
Carl Porttmann
1812 - 1894
Otto Flecken
1860 - 1925
Cora Fisch
Born 1952
Emil Frische
1872 - 1916
Detlef Krebs
Born 1956
Paul Wilhelmi (Maler)
1858 - 1943
Willy Kukuk
1875 - 1944
Bernhard von Guérard
1771 - 1836
Fritz Schürmann
1863 - 1927
Peter von Krafft
1861 - 1894
Robby Camphausen
Born 1909
Wilhelm Breekvelt
1658 - 1687
Eduard von Hagens
1815 - 1849
Anna Wrangel
1876 - 1941