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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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- Filtered to 1830s Clear ×
August Weismann
1834 - 1914
Heinrich Anton de Bary
1831 - 1888
Ernst Georg Ravenstein
1834 - 1913
Giorgio Sommer
1834 - 1914
Hugo Schiff
1834 - 1915
Otto Scholderer
1834 - 1902
Jean Baptista von Schweitzer
1833 - 1875
Louis de Wecker
1832 - 1906
Joseph Maria von Radowitz Jr.
1839 - 1912
Victor Müller
1830 - 1871
Nathaniel Meyer von Rothschild
1836 - 1905
Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild
1832 - 1924
Johann Friedrich Jaennicke
1831 - 1907
Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger
1832 - 1911
Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden
1838 - 1915
Wilhelm von Scherff
1834 - 1911
Ottmar Hofmann
1835 - 1900
Carl Ruland
1834 - 1907
Carl Gustav Schmitt
1834 - 1900
Arthur von Bolfras
1838 - 1922
Moritz Schmidt-Metzler
1838 - 1907
Heinrich Meidinger
1831 - 1905
Wilhelm Amandus Beer
1837 - 1907
Alexander Linnemann
1839 - 1902
Carl Jonas Mylius
1839 - 1883
Julius Beer
1836 - 1880
Max Schmidt (Zoodirektor)
1834 - 1888
Georg Speyer
1835 - 1902
Eugen Klimsch
1839 - 1896
Adolphe Goldschmidt
1838 - 1918
Charles F. Hoffmann
1838 - 1913
Albert Hendschel
1834 - 1883
Friedrich Ludwig von Gans
1833 - 1920
Teutwart Schmitson
1830 - 1863
Wilhelm Cronenberg
1836 - 1915
Konrad Adolf Hallenstein
1835 - 1892
Ernst Kelchner
1831 - 1895
Emil von Xylander
1835 - 1910
Alexander Flamant
1836 - 1897
Sigismund Kohn-Speyer
1830 - 1895
Hermann Strauch
1838 - 1904
Carl Friedrich Harveng
1832 - 1874
Georg Hom
1838 - 1911
Johann August Streng
1830 - 1897
Karl Heussenstamm
1835 - 1913
Albert von Metzler (Bankier, 1839)
1839 - 1918
Heinrich Oswalt
1830 - 1891
Anton Karl Rumpf
1838 - 1911
Julius Baumann
1837 - 1916
Heinrich Petry
1832 - 1904
Conrad Bohn
1831 - 1897
Albert Ellissen
1838 - 1923
Georg Berna
1836 - 1865
Wilhelm Schaefer (Schriftsteller)
1835 - 1908
Gustav Humser
1836 - 1918
Johann Baptist Rottenstein
Born 1832
Edmund Jüssen
1830 - 1891
Ludwig Gottlieb Friedrich von Erlanger
1836 - 1898
Carl Wolf (Politiker)
1834 - 1901
Henry Oppenheim
1835 - 1912
Andreas Weber (Gartenarchitekt)
1832 - 1901
Wilhelm Hermann Carl von Erlanger
1834 - 1909
Auguste Metz
1836 - 1922
John C. Zimmerman Sr.
1835 - 1935
Agnes Hoesch
1839 - 1903
Philipp Henrik Mandel
1837 - 1882
Carl Alexander Grunelius
1834 - 1882
Rudolf Suchsland
1839 - 1921