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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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Otto Hahn
1879 - 1968
Friedrich Wöhler
1800 - 1882
Carl Remigius Fresenius
1818 - 1897
Carl Gräbe
1841 - 1927
Hugo Schiff
1834 - 1915
Otto Bayer
1902 - 1982
Theodor Förster
1910 - 1974
Arthur von Weinberg
1860 - 1943
Paul Oppenheim
1885 - 1977
Heinrich Buff
1805 - 1878
Benjamin List
Born 1968
Eduard Linnemann
1841 - 1886
Rainer Waser
Born 1955
Robert Schiff
1854 - 1940
Karl Schaum
1870 - 1947
Wilhelm Eitel
1891 - 1979
Augustus Voelcker
1822 - 1884
Walter Heerdt
1888 - 1957
Axel Kleemann
Born 1940
Hellmut Bredereck
1904 - 1981
Franz Varrentrapp
1815 - 1877
Rainer Jaenicke
1930 - 2016
Leo Gans
1843 - 1935
Heinrich Roessler
1845 - 1924
Carl Adolf Schleussner
1895 - 1959
Hans Paul Kaufmann
1889 - 1971
Peter Euler
Born 1953
Edmund Speyer
1878 - 1942
Hans Wolfgang Spiess
Born 1942
Julius Koch (Önologe)
1912 - 1991
Roland Köster (Chemiker)
1924 - 2009
Hans Sillescu
Born 1936
Jakob Bechhold
1866 - 1937
Hans Geisow
1879 - 1939
Erhard Meyer-Galow
Born 1942
Otto von der Pfordten
1861 - 1918
Nils G. Walter
Born 1966
Valentin Gerlach
1858 - 1957
Johannes Nelles (Chemiker)
1910 - 1968
Walter Ried
1920 - 2008
Ludwig Wilhelm von Gans
1869 - 1946
Hans Ludwig Schläfer
1923 - 1969
Heinrich Alfred Ammelburg
1864 - 1939
Fritz Roessler
1870 - 1937
Hanns Hofmann (Chemiker)
1923 - 2006
Franz Feist
1864 - 1941
Alexander Böker (Chemiker)
Born 1973
Wolfgang Kirmse
Born 1930
Hans-Joachim Böhm
Born 1956
Hector Roessler
1842 - 1915
Wolf Bodenheimer
1905 - 1975
Rolf-Eberhard Streeck
1940 - 2007
Harald Schwalbe
Born 1966
Erich Friedländer
1901 - 1997
Kurt Ruths
1927 - 1997
Dieter Schuch
Born 1953