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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 1910s Clear ×
Tilly Fleischer
1911 - 2005
Bruno Beger
1911 - 2009
Fritz Tillmann
1910 - 1986
Theodor Schneider
1911 - 1988
Tatjana Sais
1910 - 1981
Bernhard Frank
1913 - 2011
Agnes Fink
1919 - 1994
Theodor Förster
1910 - 1974
Alfredo B. Crevenna
1914 - 1996
Richard Plant (writer)
1910 - 1998
Wolf Kaiser
1916 - 1992
Heinz Rehfuss
1917 - 1988
Herbert Cahn
1915 - 2002
Valentin Senger
1918 - 1997
Georg von Opel
1912 - 1971
Janheinz Jahn
1918 - 1973
Erwin Walter Palm
1910 - 1988
Heini Göbel
1910 - 2009
Werner Grothmann
1915 - 2002
Eric Koch
1919 - 2018
Hermann Flohn
1912 - 1997
Theo Helfrich
1913 - 1978
Hel Braun
1914 - 1986
Mordechai Breuer (historian)
1918 - 2007
Bernhard Heiden
1910 - 2000
Emil Carlebach
1914 - 2001
Hans Bartels (Marineoffizier)
1910 - 1945
Willi Birkelbach
1913 - 2008
Carlo Bohländer
1919 - 2004
Walther Benser
1912 - 2002
Josef Esser (Rechtswissenschaftler)
1910 - 1999
Peter Ebert
1918 - 2012
Lia Wöhr
1911 - 1994
Emma Brunner-Traut
1911 - 2008
Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleb
1917 - 2010
Bernd T. Matthias
1918 - 1980
Manfred Kersch
1913 - 1995
Robert H. Goetz
1910 - 2000
Johan Wilhelm Heinrich Giess
1910 - 2000
Karl Heinz Bremer
1911 - 1942
Beno Rothenberg
1914 - 2012
Karl Wald
1916 - 2011
Willi Lindner
1910 - 1944
Hanan Aynor
1916 - 1993
Charlie Hoefer
1917 - 1983
Karl Dröse
1913 - 1996
Liesel Christ
1919 - 1996
Hermann auf der Heide
1911 - 1984
Bruno Roth
1911 - 1998
Theodore H. Von Laue
1916 - 2000
Albert Richard Mohr
1911 - 1992
Toby E. Rodes
1919 - 2013
Bruno H. Schubert
1919 - 2010
Rudolf Alberth
1918 - 1992
Paul Feiler
1918 - 2013
Elisheva Cohen
1911 - 1989
Hans von Hahn
1914 - 1957
Erich B. Cahn
1913 - 1993
Rita Arnould
1914 - 1943
Günter Stephan (Fußballspieler)
1912 - 1995
Detlev Lais
1911 - 1978
Kurt Wege (Musiker)
1911 - 1964
Ernie Blake
1913 - 1989
Walter Hesselbach
1915 - 1993
Hans Grebe
1913 - 1999
Paul Haefliger
1914 - 1982
Fred Bachrach
1914 - 2009
Otto Greis
1913 - 2001
Ivo Veit
1910 - 1984
Max Steinmetz (Historiker)
1912 - 1990
Bernward Josef Gottlieb
1910 - 2008
Werner Hess
1914 - 2003
Ernst Weil
1919 - 1981
Imogen Seger
1915 - 1995
Erich Dinges
1911 - 1953
Jacob Breuer
1915 - 2008
Heinz Such
1910 - 1976
Antoine Raab
1913 - 2006
Friedrich Zipp
1914 - 1997
Walter Hilsbecher
1917 - 2015
Kurt Bergel
1911 - 2001
Emma Kann
1914 - 2009
Martin Groß
1911 - 1984
Erich Otremba
1910 - 1984
Walter Schulte
1910 - 1972
Signe von Scanzoni
1915 - 2002
Manfred M. Mayer
1916 - 1984
Johannes Schauer (Schauspieler)
1918 - 1992
Wilhelm Bender (Kirchenmusiker)
1911 - 1944
Kurt Buecheler
1915 - 2004
Karl-Heinz Priester
1913 - 1961
Erich Dittmann
1916 - 1999
Marianne Rousselle
1919 - 2003
Werner Betz (Philologe)
1912 - 1980
Robert Jührs
Born 1911
Hildegard Emmel
1911 - 1996
Bernhard Cuiper
1913 - 1999
Heinz Brendel
1915 - 1989
Horst Scharfenberg
1919 - 2006
Yvonne Hackenbroch
1912 - 2012
Ernst Heyda
Born 1910
Julius Koch (Önologe)
1912 - 1991
Kurt Kohl
1918 - 2002
Paul Grünewald
1912 - 1996
Marianne Lüdicke
1919 - 2012
Erich Bender (Komponist)
1913 - 2002
Sibyl Marcuse
1911 - 2003
Otto Stamm
1915 - 1979
Wolfgang Rottsieper
1919 - 1973
Hans Schmitt (Bildhauer)
1912 - 1996
Borris Goetz
1915 - 1998
Jörgen Schmidt-Voigt
1917 - 2004
Helmut Rahn (Philologe)
1919 - 2007
Dieter Hoenes
1912 - 1955
Walter Weisbecker
1915 - 1996
Gustav Stresow
1910 - 2010
Rolf Nierhaus
1911 - 1996
Viktoria Lindpaintner
1918 - 1965
Henny Schermann
1912 - 1942
Willi Rom
1911 - 1999
Johannes Nelles (Chemiker)
1910 - 1968
Else Meister
1912 - 2005
Wolf Freiherr von Hornstein
1918 - 2008
Wolfgang Schwabe
1910 - 1978
Hedwig Grimm
1910 - 2003
Hans Kracke
1910 - 1989
Erwin Rothbarth
1913 - 1944
Dietrich Remy
1918 - 2007
Elli Kühne
1911 - 1984
Gustav Stürtz
Born 1915
Ludwig Becker (Maler, 1914)
1914 - 1971
Karloskar Felser
1911 - 1978
Ilse Becker-Döring
1912 - 2004
Walter Jäger (Schachspieler)
1913 - 1976
Gerhard Salzer
1912 - 1989
Kurt Köhler
1911 - 1990
Erich G. Henkel
1913 - 1998
Lotte Specht
1911 - 2002
Klaus Köhler-Achenbach
1912 - 1988
Wolfgang Wegner (Kunsthistoriker)
1913 - 1978
Fritz Grunebaum
1913 - 1992
Marc Breuer
1912 - 2002
Ernst Unger (Mediziner, 1915)
1915 - 2011
Ernst Vogelsang
1911 - 1942
Robert Kaestner
1913 - 1990
Willi Grün (Theologe)
1910 - 2005
Heinrich Gärtner (Fußballspieler)
1918 - 2003
Theodor Hüllinghoff
Born 1910
Anne Ehscheidt
Born 1919
Willy Wild
1919 - 1994
Doris Eckert
1915 - 2005
Friedel Schön
1914 - 2005
Sonja Schmid-Burgk
1911 - 1999
Franz Ludwig Schmidt-Knatz
1913 - 2002
Wilhelm Kirmser
1911 - 1995
Leo Gingold
Born 1915
Rudolf Schucht
1910 - 2004