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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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Richard Ettinghausen
1906 - 1979
Wolfgang Kemp
Born 1946
Volker Michael Strocka
Born 1940
Carl Ruland
1834 - 1907
Erna Auerbach
1897 - 1975
Heinz Schomann
Born 1939
Hubertus Gaßner
Born 1950
Sabine Schulze
Born 1954
Wolfram Hagspiel
Born 1952
Hans Rose (Kunsthistoriker)
1888 - 1945
Georg Weise
1888 - 1978
Fred Bachrach
1914 - 2009
Georg Piltz
1925 - 2011
Michael Kauffmann
Born 1931
Christoph Grunenberg
Born 1962
Ariane Grigoteit
Born 1961
Fritz Weege
1880 - 1945
Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen
1744 - 1807
Ursula Harter
Born 1958
Christoph Winterer
Born 1967
Sandra Danicke
Born 1968
Annegrit Schmitt
Born 1929
Wilhelm Kraiker
1899 - 1987
Thomas Köhler (Kunsthistoriker)
Born 1966
Klaus Güthlein
Born 1942
Evelyn Brockhoff
Born 1955
Detlef Zinke
Born 1947
Friedrich Fries (Kunsthistoriker)
1865 - 1954
Alexander Eiling
Born 1974
Ernst Benkard
1883 - 1946
Victoria Lorini
Born 1969
Christine Goetz
1952 - 2020
Karl Nothnagel
1898 - 1958
Hanns Schulze
1884 - 1931
Leopold Alfred Baer
1880 - 1948
Wolfgang Wegner (Kunsthistoriker)
1913 - 1978
Marion Meyer
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Karl-Eberhard Feußner
Born 1959