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FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Most Famous People Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Notable people
- 3,568
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1924
- Most distinctive
- Bank 10.2×
A banking city with a medieval skeleton and an Enlightenment conscience. Frankfurt's most distinctive profession is banker at more than ten times the global rate — the Rothschild and Bundesbank shadow — alongside an unusually thick column of art historians, chemists, authors, and academics, the legacy of both the city's free imperial-city scholarly tradition and IG Farben. Goethe was born here in 1749, Anne Frank in 1929, and the 18th century already carries a surprisingly heavy share of the bench.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Frankfurt am Main during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Frankfurt am Main Is Known For
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Politician is Frankfurt am Main's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (374).
Frankfurt am Main over-indexes on bank — 10.2× the global rate.
Frankfurt am Main under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Frankfurt am Main's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Clemens Brentano
1778 - 1842
Friedrich Carl von Savigny
1779 - 1861
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
1777 - 1836
Salomon Mayer von Rothschild
1774 - 1855
Amschel Mayer Rothschild
1773 - 1855
Johann Friedrich von Meyer
1772 - 1849
Elisabeth von Adlerflycht
1775 - 1846
Anton Kirchner
1779 - 1834
Johann Friedrich Morgenstern
1777 - 1844
Georg Friedrich von Guaita
1772 - 1851
Johann Karl von Fichard
1773 - 1829
Carl Constantin Victor von Mergenbaum
1778 - 1845
Johann Theobald Christ
1777 - 1841
Gerhard Friederich
1779 - 1862
Friedrich Karl Ludwig Textor
1775 - 1851
Ferdinand Maximilian Starck
1778 - 1857
Heinrich Remigius Sauerländer (Verleger, 1776) �
1776 - 1847
Johann Valentin Albert
1774 - 1856
Joachim Andreas Grunelius
1776 - 1852
Johann Jacob Casimir Buch
1778 - 1851
Johann Peter Hieronymus Hoch
1779 - 1831
Karl Kekulé
1773 - 1847
Samuel Gottlieb Finger
1777 - 1827
Johann Georg Rößing
1778 - 1820
Johann Konrad Behrends
1775 - 1843
Wilhelm Peter Binding
1772 - 1834
David Rücker
1776 - 1852
Georg Wilhelm Zeitmann
1771 - 1836
Johannes Kappes
1773 - 1837
Georg Wilhelm Clarus
1779 - 1860