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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 1880s Clear ×
Otto Frank
1889 - 1980
Siegfried Kracauer
1889 - 1966
Ernst May
1886 - 1970
Walter Ruttmann
1887 - 1941
Hermann Abendroth
1883 - 1956
Walter Braunfels
1882 - 1954
Herman Bing
1889 - 1947
Ida Wüst
1884 - 1958
Henrik Kauffmann
1888 - 1963
Wilhelm Lenz
1888 - 1957
Hermann Zilcher
1881 - 1948
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
1887 - 1945
Moritz Geiger
1880 - 1937
Paul Maas (classical scholar)
1880 - 1964
Richard Kauffmann
1887 - 1958
Karl von Roques
1880 - 1949
Ernst Schwarz (zoologist)
1889 - 1962
Gussy Holl
1888 - 1966
Veit Valentin
1885 - 1947
Erich Schönfelder
1885 - 1933
Oscar Kreuzer
1887 - 1968
Julius Spier
1887 - 1942
Carl Haensel
1889 - 1968
Paul Oppenheim
1885 - 1977
Johanna Kirchner
1889 - 1944
Heinrich Jacoby
1889 - 1964
Carl Gebhardt
1881 - 1934
Fritz Becker
1888 - 1963
Richard Merton
1881 - 1960
Wilhelm Dörr
1881 - 1955
Fritz Haas
1886 - 1969
Walther Davisson
1885 - 1973
Otto Maull
1887 - 1957
Edgar Stern-Rubarth
1883 - 1972
Ludwig Schunk
1884 - 1947
Caesar Rudolf Boettger
1888 - 1976
Else Gentner-Fischer
1883 - 1943
Ludwig Karl Koch
1881 - 1974
Heinz Zeiss
1888 - 1949
Wilhelm August Wenz
1886 - 1945
Richard Koch (Mediziner)
1882 - 1949
Georg von Neufville
1883 - 1941
Edgar Goldschmid
1881 - 1957
Hans W. Maier
1882 - 1945
Georg Hermann Alexander Ochs
1887 - 1971
Carl Ludwig Kirmse
1888 - 1982
Marie Paquet-Steinhausen
1881 - 1958
Karl Grönsfelder
1882 - 1964
Hermine Moos
1888 - 1928
Johannes Georgi (Meteorologe)
1888 - 1972
Heinrich Fassbender (Physiker)
1884 - 1970
L. Albert Hahn
1889 - 1968
Walter Heerdt
1888 - 1957
Robert von Hirsch
1883 - 1977
Fritz Mouson
1884 - 1926
Hans Rose (Kunsthistoriker)
1888 - 1945
Lino Salini
1889 - 1944
Georg Weise
1888 - 1978
Siegfried Eberhardt
1883 - 1960
Paul Grosser
1880 - 1934
Karl Ettlinger
1882 - 1946
Walther von Mumm
1887 - 1959
Hermann Bräuning-Oktavio
1888 - 1977
Carl Luley
1887 - 1966
Paul Hirsch (Bibliophiler)
1881 - 1951
Max Flesch-Thebesius
1889 - 1983
Else Luthmer
1880 - 1961
Hans Paul Kaufmann
1889 - 1971
Heinrich Eymer
1883 - 1965
Fritz Weege
1880 - 1945
Carl Goetz (Bankmanager)
1885 - 1965
Emmy Gotzmann
1881 - 1950
Oskar Coester
1886 - 1955
Georg Benkard
1881 - 1955
Gustav Lampmann
1885 - 1970
Hans Riesser (Diplomat)
1887 - 1969
Eduard Rehn
1880 - 1972
Otto Riesser
1882 - 1949
Albert Volk
1882 - 1982
Hans Hubert Dietzsch
1880 - 1926
Ernst Bamberger
1885 - 1941
Philipp Ellinger
1887 - 1952
Franz Petry
1889 - 1915
Minni Herzing
1883 - 1968
Anny Hannewald
1882 - 1968
Ernst Majer-Leonhard
1889 - 1966
Martin Schwarz (Architekt)
1885 - 1945
Walter Sulzbach
1889 - 1969
Georg Eberlein (Politiker)
1888 - 1976
Hans-Wolff von Ponickau
1889 - 1957
Moritz John Elsas
1881 - 1952
Heinrich Gesemann
1886 - 1939
Justus Paris
1885 - 1942
Franziska Schlopsnies
1884 - 1944
Ernst Benkard
1883 - 1946
Wilhelm Runze
1887 - 1972
Hans F. Schaub
1880 - 1965
Alfred Hensel
1880 - 1969
Alexander Lorey
1880 - 1949
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Leonhardt
1881 - 1918
Theophil Kaufmann
1888 - 1961
Amalie Lauer
1882 - 1950
Werner Meißner (Jurist)
1888 - 1962
Georg Mahr
1889 - 1967
Heinrich Gins
1883 - 1968
Karl Boda
1889 - 1942
Hans-Gotthilf Strasser
1883 - 1963
Heinrich Gerth
1884 - 1971
Ludwig Bertalot
1884 - 1960
Willy Dreyfus
1885 - 1977
Christian Beyer (Maler)
1883 - 1967
Harold Winter
1887 - 1969
Julie Kniese
1880 - 1972
Mathilde Einzig
1886 - 1963
Maria Elisabeth Epstein
1881 - 1948
Hans Proesler
1888 - 1956
Georg Pauly (Dramaturg)
1883 - 1950
Wilhelm Steinhausen (Physiologe)
1887 - 1954
Maria Regina Jünemann
1888 - 1978
Georg Cohn
1887 - 1956
Emil Ritter (Publizist)
1881 - 1968
Hanns Schulze
1884 - 1931
Adele Schönfeld
1888 - 1953
Franz Schramm
1887 - 1966
Emmy Heller
1886 - 1956
Richard Rosenheim
1883 - 1964
Leopold Alfred Baer
1880 - 1948
Jacob Flesch
1885 - 1972
Ernst Walz (Politiker, 1888)
1888 - 1966
Otto Hufnagel
1885 - 1944
Fritz Edinger
1888 - 1942
Walter Weber (Politiker, 1886)
1886 - 1966
Max Michel (Politiker)
1888 - 1941
Friedrich Reisch
1881 - 1921
Karl Latteyer
1884 - 1959
Hedwig Reiling
1880 - 1942
Kurt Jäckel (Künstler)
1883 - 1966
Jules Marx
1882 - 1944
Otto Fucker
1888 - 1950
Robert Sommer (Fechter)
1887 - 1957
Walter Rieck (Politiker)
1885 - 1974
Ines Keil-Folville
1885 - 1980
Ludwig Schuch
1885 - 1939
Hans Oppermann (Landrat)
1886 - 1946
Moritz Meier
1883 - 1944
Max Lewy
1885 - 1920
Adele Ginzberg
1886 - 1980
Richard Dornseiff
1886 - 1958
Naphtali Cohn
1888 - 1937