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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

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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.