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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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Henri Nestlé
1814 - 1890
Abraham Geiger
1810 - 1874
Ferdinand Hiller
1811 - 1885
Carl Remigius Fresenius
1818 - 1897
Johann Georg von Hahn
1811 - 1869
Charlotte von Rothschild
1819 - 1884
Hermann Hoffmann
1819 - 1891
Henri Weil
1818 - 1909
Johannes Conrad Schauer
1813 - 1848
Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim
1819 - 1880
Friedrich Stoltze
1816 - 1891
August Weber
1817 - 1873
Henri Guillaume Schlesinger
1814 - 1893
Heribert Rau
1813 - 1876
Ludwig Braunfels
1810 - 1885
Georg Hermann von Meyer
1815 - 1892
Moritz von Bethmann
1811 - 1877
Johann Baptist Zwecker
1814 - 1876
Joseph Hoch
1815 - 1874
Johann Christian Gustav Lucae
1814 - 1885
Daniel Heinrich Mumm von Schwarzenstein
1818 - 1890
Carl Morgenstern
1811 - 1893
Charles Tascher de La Pagerie
1811 - 1869
Karl Enslin
1819 - 1875
Karl Oppel
1816 - 1903
Franz Varrentrapp
1815 - 1877
Anton von Le Monnier
1819 - 1873
Daniel Weisweiller
1814 - 1892
Charlotte Oppenheim
1811 - 1887
Hermann Emden (Fotograf)
1815 - 1879
Wilhelm Stricker (Publizist)
1815 - 1891
Georg Eduard Steitz
1810 - 1879
Heinrich Adolf Valentin Hoffmann
1814 - 1896
Anton Heinrich Emil von Oven
1817 - 1903
Hermann Victor Andreae
1817 - 1889
Hermann de Stern
1815 - 1887
Karl Klein (Bischof)
1819 - 1898
Johann Christian Heerdt
1812 - 1878
Wilhelm von Leonhardi
1812 - 1856
Mathilde von Guaita
1815 - 1890
Ludwig Löffler
1819 - 1876
Wilhelm Schaeffner
1815 - 1897
Franz Ditt
1813 - 1854
Johann Jakob Jung (Maler)
1819 - 1844
Hector von Holzhausen
1812 - 1890
Alfred de Salignac-Fénelon
1810 - 1883
Isaac Löw Königswarter
1818 - 1877
Louis Tolhausen
1817 - 1904
Theodor Weidner (Schauspieler)
1814 - 1840
Siegmund Sulzbach
1813 - 1876
Carl Ditt
1816 - 1888
Konrad Degen
1811 - 1884
Marie Freifrau von Bernus
1819 - 1887
Alexander Friedleben
1819 - 1878
Friedrich Hessenberg
1810 - 1874
Johann Joseph Oppel
1815 - 1894
Heinrich Carl Remigius Adelmann
1811 - 1887
Heinrich Wolff
1813 - 1898
Friedrich Stegmann
1813 - 1891
Joseph Anton Wolfgang Forsboom
1817 - 1871
Friedrich Kugler
1810 - 1881
Leopold Zuntz
1813 - 1874
Martin Ditt
1810 - 1860
Johann Friedrich Mack
1819 - 1887
Heinrich Remigius Fries
1812 - 1875
Johann Caspar Bauer
1815 - 1866
Friedrich Jacob Ficus
1812 - 1890
Wolfgang Neukirch
1815 - 1877
Gustav Adolph Andreae-Graubner
1812 - 1892
Georg Conrad Jäger
1817 - 1900
Julius August Scharff
1812 - 1876
Johann Philipp Friedrich Lindheimer
Born 1810