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: Sculptor Clear ×
Ulrich Rückriem
Born 1938
Otto Lessing (sculptor)
1846 - 1912
Gustav Bläser
1813 - 1874
Abraham David Christian
Born 1952
Norbert Kricke
1922 - 1984
Karl Janssen
1855 - 1927
Bernd Lohaus
1940 - 2010
Peter Brüning
1929 - 1970
Jacques Tilly
Born 1963
Adolf Bierbrauer
1915 - 2012
Conrad Kiesel
1846 - 1921
Peter Schwickerath
Born 1942
Axel Lieber
Born 1960
Ernst Gottschalk (Bildhauer)
1877 - 1942
Bert Gerresheim
Born 1935
Michael Behrens
Born 1973
Horst Egon Kalinowski
1924 - 2013
Thomas Schönauer
Born 1953
Kurt Sandweg
1927 - 2008
Jupp Rübsam
1896 - 1976
Dietrich-Mohr
1924 - 2016
Paul Brandenburg
Born 1930
Heinrich Baucke
1875 - 1915
Karl Hilgers
1844 - 1925
Helmut Sundhaußen
1935 - 2018
Anton Josef Reiss
1835 - 1900
Jost Wischnewski
Born 1962
Emil Jungblut
1888 - 1955
Gregor von Bochmann der Jüngere
1878 - 1914
Kurt Zimmermann (Bildhauer)
1910 - 1961
Gottfried Götting
1840 - 1879
Benedikt Birckenbach
Born 1965
Anneliese Langenbach
1926 - 2008
Claire Volkhart
1886 - 1935
Trude Esser
1925 - 2015
Arnold Frische
1869 - 1944
Leo Müsch
1846 - 1911
Heike Roesner
Born 1959
Maria Fuss
1907 - 1979
Oswald Causin
1893 - 1953
Rainer Lagemann
Born 1959
Ludwig Chateau
1906 - 1975
Josef Bäumgen
1714 - 1789
Alfred Adloff
Born 1874
Ralf Krämer (Bildhauer)
Born 1964