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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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- Politics & Law
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Art & Design
- Other
- Filtered to 1900s Clear ×
Theodor W. Adorno
1903 - 1969
Erich Fromm
1900 - 1980
Erik Erikson
1902 - 1994
Prince Christoph of Hesse
1901 - 1943
Ernst vom Rath
1909 - 1938
Leo Löwenthal
1900 - 1993
Eugen Weidmann
1908 - 1939
Camilla Horn
1903 - 1996
Georg Konrad Morgen
1909 - 1982
Max Rudolf (conductor)
1902 - 1995
Kurt H. Debus
1908 - 1983
Otto Bayer
1902 - 1982
Georg-August Zinn
1901 - 1976
Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt
1901 - 1986
Hilde Levi
1909 - 2003
Wilhelm Weischedel
1905 - 1975
Friedrich Bopp
1909 - 1987
Helmut Landsberg
1906 - 1985
Rudolf Gramlich
1908 - 1988
Wolfgang Gentner
1906 - 1980
Karl Chmielewski
1903 - 1991
Kurt Hessenberg
1908 - 1994
Richard Ettinghausen
1906 - 1979
Fritz Weitzel
1904 - 1940
Willibald Kreß
1906 - 1989
Heinz Moog
1908 - 1989
Andrew Thorndike
1909 - 1979
Hugo Schrader
1902 - 1993
Ott-Heinrich Keller
1906 - 1990
Albrecht Joseph
1901 - 1991
Erich Klibansky
1900 - 1942
Arthur Dreifuss
1908 - 1993
Otto Kahn-Freund
1900 - 1979
Karl Heinrich Menges
1908 - 1999
Karl Holzamer
1906 - 2007
Oscar Stonorov
1905 - 1970
Karl Hessenberg
1904 - 1959
Shimon Schwab
1908 - 1995
Adolf Beckerle
1902 - 1976
Jeanne Mandello
1907 - 2001
Heinz Ansbacher
1904 - 2006
Francis Bott
1904 - 1998
Doris Thalmer
1907 - 1998
Erika Fromm
1909 - 2003
Rudolf Hindemith
1900 - 1974
Julius Eisenecker
1903 - 1981
Kurt Ehrhardt
1900 - 1971
Lilo Milchsack
1905 - 1992
Eric Isenburger
1902 - 1994
Fritz Bamberger (scholar)
1902 - 1984
Wilhelm Karpenstein
1903 - 1968
Milly Reuter
1904 - 1976
Annie Markart
1907 - 1991
Yosef Goldschmidt
1907 - 1981
Otto Mainzer
1903 - 1995
Ernst Winter
1907 - 1943
Evelyn Anderson
1909 - 1977
Siegfried Lerdon
1905 - 1964
Kurt Lipstein
1909 - 2006
Kurt Liebknecht
1905 - 1994
Léo Ansbacher
1907 - 1998
Liselotte Dieckmann
1902 - 1994
Otto Lang (actor)
1906 - 1984
Günther Maul
1909 - 1997
Helm Glöckler
1909 - 1993
Walter von Bonhorst
1904 - 1978
Ernst Emsheimer
1904 - 1989
Øyvind Anker
1904 - 1989
Vera von Bissing
1906 - 2002
Karl Jung (Geophysiker)
1902 - 1972
Benno von Wiese
1903 - 1987
Richard Alewyn
1902 - 1979
Walther Hess
1900 - 1986
Helmut Schultz (Musikwissenschaftler)
1904 - 1945
Adolf Weidmann
1901 - 1997
Rudolf Schütrumpf
1909 - 1986
Herbert Hess
1908 - 1977
Karl Heinz Pfeffer
1906 - 1971
John Niemann
1905 - 1990
Rudolf Benario
1908 - 1933
Walter Löber
1909 - 1939
Josefine Klee-Helmdach
1903 - 1994
Paul August Schmitz
1903 - 1948
Heinrich Pfeifer
1905 - 1949
Edgar Weil
1908 - 1941
Else Knott
1909 - 1975
Léo Maillet
1902 - 1990
Friedrich Karl Vialon
1905 - 1990
Hellmut Bredereck
1904 - 1981
Anna Beyer
1909 - 1991
John Slade (field hockey)
1908 - 2005
Felix Abraham
1901 - 1937
Eduard Wahl
1903 - 1985
Kurt Scheele
1905 - 1944
Anna Klein (camp warden)
1900 - 2004
Richard Karl Ullmann
1904 - 1963
Robert Raphael Geis
1906 - 1972
Otto Collin
1904 - 1988
Alois Giefer
1908 - 1982
Willi Welscher
1906 - 1987
Erik Radolf
1904 - 1976
Richard von Hessen
1901 - 1969
Ernst Geerling
1909 - 1971
Robert Mohr (RSHA)
1909 - 1989
Franz Heim
1907 - 1944
Richard Böck
1906 - 1973
Wilhelm Hufnagl
1904 - 1994
Carl Ernst Fischer
1900 - 1974
Anna Sticker
1902 - 1995
Hans Steinbrenner (SS member)
1905 - 1964
Gerhard Schneider (Bürgermeister)
1904 - 1988
Willy Hofmann
1909 - 1984
Hans Otto Wesemann
1903 - 1976
Carla Brill
1906 - 1994
Ottilie Stibaner
1908 - 1972
Rudolph S. Joseph
1904 - 1998
Friedrich Merdsche
1906 - 1985
Ernst Geßler (Jurist)
1905 - 1986
Albrecht Appelhans
1900 - 1975
Aenne Nau
1909 - 1991
Carl Sembach
1908 - 1984
Rudolf Thauer der Ältere
1906 - 1986
Carl Koch (Altphilologe)
1907 - 1956
Willy Herbert
1904 - 1969
Rudolf Heilbrunn
1901 - 1998
Karl Herbert (Theologe)
1907 - 1995
Ernst Féaux de la Croix
1906 - 1995
Karl Friedrich Scheid
1906 - 1945
Günther Gräntz
1905 - 1945
Adolf Blind
1906 - 1996
Karl Otto Lange
1903 - 1973
Peter Kohnstamm
1908 - 1995
Fritz Hellmann
1908 - 1945
Herman Geiger-Torel
1907 - 1976
Yitzhak Nebenzahl
1907 - 1992
Heinrich Rodemer
1908 - 1980
Bernd Mumm von Schwarzenstein
1901 - 1981
Hans von Rosen (Verbandsfunktionär)
1900 - 1999
Wolfgang Preiser
1903 - 1997
Egon Römisch
1909 - 1976
Hans Jeschke
1903 - 1987
Eugen Henkel
1909 - 1978
Rose Schlösinger
1907 - 1943
Heinrich Müller (Politiker, 1901)
1901 - 1966
Otto Schwebel
1903 - 1976
Philipp Pless
1906 - 1973
Gustav von Metzler
1908 - 1984
Willy Bouffier
1903 - 1969
Tita Binz
1903 - 1970
Otto Hof
1902 - 1980
Wilhelm Gutermuth (Mediziner)
1905 - 1982
Emil Weinig
1904 - 1979
Jürgen Klein (Bildhauer)
1904 - 1978
Hansjürgen Reinicke
1902 - 1978
Franka Rasmussen
1907 - 1994
Reinhard Jaspert
1904 - 1989
Fritz Dietz
1909 - 1984
Karl Linder (Politiker, 1900)
1900 - 1979
Hans Bartolmes
1902 - 1995
Paul Backes
1900 - 1963
Karl Dienstbach
1900 - 1977
Margarete Rudoll
1906 - 1979
Rudolf Pohle (Jurist)
1902 - 1967
Ferdinand Trusheim
1906 - 1997
Richard Bott (Zoologe)
1902 - 1974
Ella Auerbach
1900 - 1999
Otto Benkner
1909 - 1996
Walter Hergenhahn
1904 - 1980
Dennis Ballwieser
Born 1908
Rudolf Menzer
1904 - 1991
Willi Görich
1907 - 1991
Hanns Alexander Simons
1900 - 1939
Fritz Brühl
1909 - 1982
Lisy Alfhart
1908 - 1996
Alexander Molzahn
1907 - 1998
Friedrich Caspary
1901 - 1978
Wolf Bodenheimer
1905 - 1975
Erich Flinsch
1905 - 1990
Alfons Kassel
1902 - 1975
Erich Duensing
1905 - 1982
Dutch Schesler
1900 - 1953
Erich Friedländer
1901 - 1997
Franz Niedner (Chirurg)
1905 - 1974
Ferdinand Bodesheim
1900 - 1970
Wolfgang Hessler
1907 - 1991
Hans Seidenather
1908 - 1994
Hans Kugler (Kriegsverbrecher)
1900 - 1968
Hans Heyer (Maler)
1909 - 1985
Josef Georg Gotthardt
1907 - 1976
Fritz Geißler (Politiker, 1903)
1903 - 1960
Hans-Rudolf Manger
1908 - 1993
Emmi Haux
1904 - 1987
Alexander Gelhaar
1908 - 1939
Walter Glöckler
1908 - 1988
Ludwig Albert
1900 - 1955
Robert Kappus
1904 - 1973
Leopold Waess
1908 - 1994
Friedrich Bischoff (Geistlicher)
1909 - 1987
Detta Lorenz
1908 - 1980
Wolfgang Eymer
1905 - 1969
Paula Maria Canthal
1907 - 1987
Frithjof Dahl
1903 - 1962
Werner Müller (Landrat)
1900 - 1982
Otto Roth (Widerstandskämpfer)
1905 - 1969
Heinrich Studer (Widerstandskämpfer)
1900 - 1964
Oskar Hübschmann
1908 - 1942
Kurt Schuster
1903 - 1995
Albert Zellekens
1909 - 1978
Eugen Blersch
1906 - 1943
Walther Gruner
1905 - 1979
Gaston de Wolff
1903 - 2003
Heinrich Schmitz (Botaniker)
1904 - 1981
Wilhelm Windecker
1908 - 1979
Karl Fehler
1905 - 1941
Hans Hartmann (Judoka)
1905 - 2002
Karl Zinn
1906 - 1943
Kurt Janthur
1908 - 1995
Heinrich Kraft (Politiker, 1903)
1903 - 1971
Hans Eick (Gewerkschafter)
1906 - 1979
Hedwig Salomon
1900 - 1942
Hans Weil-Alvaron
1902 - 1998
Carola Wallinder
1900 - 1972