51.5131° N, 7.1029° E
GELSENKIRCHEN
Most Famous People Born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany
- Notable people
- 595
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1942
- Most distinctive
- Manager 14.8×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Gelsenkirchen during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Gelsenkirchen Is Known For
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Football is Gelsenkirchen's biggest profession — 18% of all notables (107).
Gelsenkirchen over-indexes on manager — 14.8× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Gelsenkirchen's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Manuel Neuer
Born 1986
Mesut Özil
Born 1988
İlkay Gündoğan
Born 1990
Hamit Altıntop
Born 1982
Harald zur Hausen
Born 1936
Gerd Faltings
Born 1954
Martin Wuttke
Born 1962
Werner Mölders
1913 - 1941
Kaan Ayhan
Born 1994
Olaf Thon
Born 1966
Claire Waldoff
1884 - 1957
Mark Waschke
Born 1972
Tom Angelripper
Born 1963
Michael Skibbe
Born 1965
Fritz Szepan
1907 - 1974
Philipp Mißfelder
1979 - 2015
Rüdiger Abramczik
Born 1956
Wilhelm Zaisser
1893 - 1958
Ernst Kuzorra
1905 - 1990
Norbert Nigbur
Born 1948
Anton Stankowski
1906 - 1998
Hans Krahe
1898 - 1965
Heinrich Breloer
Born 1942
Danny Latza
Born 1989
Heinz Kwiatkowski
1926 - 2008
Bernhard Klodt
1926 - 1996
Klaus-Peter Wolf
Born 1954
Heinz Hornig
Born 1937
Willi Koslowski
Born 1937
Rudolf Gellesch
1914 - 1990
Adolf Urban
1914 - 1943
Dorothee Mields
Born 1971
Peter Trawny
Born 1964
Hans-Jürgen Gede
Born 1956
Hans Nowak
1937 - 2012
Tom Gaebel
Born 1975
Oliver Mark
Born 1963
Hellmut Krug
Born 1956
Klaus Rinke
Born 1939
Anne Schwanewilms
Born 1967
Klaus Patau
1908 - 1975
Ben-Zion Orgad
1926 - 2006
Alfred Kelbassa
1925 - 1988
Michael Delura
Born 1985
Terry Reintke
Born 1987
Joy Gruttmann
Born 1995
Ahmet Dursun
Born 1978
Elisabeth Käsemann
1947 - 1977
Andreas Maurer
Born 1958
Herbert Burdenski
1922 - 2001
David Wnendt
Born 1977
Marcel Sobottka
Born 1994
Lary (singer)
Born 1986
Toni Tapalović
Born 1980
Görkem Sağlam
Born 1998
Knut Berger
Born 1975
Hubert Berke
1908 - 1979
Ralf Reski
Born 1958
Filip Tapalović
Born 1976
Sebastian Ernst
Born 1984
Weekend (rappeur)
Born 1986
Claus Schiprowski
Born 1942
Heinrich Bongartz
1892 - 1946
Uli Maslo
Born 1938
Lothar Machtan
Born 1949
Wolfram Burgard
Born 1961
Ralf Schermuly
1942 - 2017
Reinhard Döhl
1934 - 2004
Ursula Schröder-Feinen
1936 - 2005
Josef Franke
1876 - 1944
Volkan Ünlü
Born 1983
Markus Kauczinski
Born 1970
Klaus Tolksdorf
Born 1948
Claude Vernier
1913 - 1996
Josef Krämer
1878 - 1954
Otto Tibulski
1912 - 1991
Thomas Domian
Born 1964
Stefan Blank
Born 1977
Friedrich Karl Dörner
1911 - 1992
Jürgen Rynio
Born 1948
Dorothee Günther
1896 - 1975
Eduard Claudius
1911 - 1976
Michael Murach
1911 - 1941
Rüdiger Stenzel
Born 1968
Ünal Alpuğan
Born 1973
Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp
Born 1947
Bert Schroer
Born 1933
Klaus Zerta
Born 1946
Wolfgang Eisenmenger
1930 - 2016
Klaus-Michael Bogdal
Born 1948
Volker Abramczik
Born 1964
Hans Klodt
1914 - 1996
Lorenz Hackenholt
1914 - 1945
Carsten Brosda
Born 1974
Alfons Goldschmidt
1879 - 1940
Reinhard Skricek
Born 1948
Guido Reil
Born 1971
Gerrit Terdenge
Born 1975
Rainer Schmidt (landscape architect)
Born 1954
Daniel A. Keim
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Karl Barufka
1921 - 1999
Johannes Brus
Born 1942
Jürgen Tarrach
Born 1960
Katrin Becker
Born 1967
Katharina Borchert
Born 1972
Udo Dziersk
Born 1961
Werner Wnendt
Born 1952
Ludger Volmer
Born 1952
Klaus Berge
Born 1961
Aleksander Tupalski
1900 - 1980
Heinrich Quiring
1883 - 1964
Heinz Drewes
1903 - 1980
Gottfried Falk
1922 - 1991
Fritz Pliska
1915 - 1995
Thomas Kläsener
Born 1976
Günter Tollmann
1926 - 1990
Kai Twilfer
Born 1976
Heinz Renneberg
1927 - 1999
Oliver Ortmann
Born 1967
Ridvan Balci
Born 1993
Aurel von Jüchen
1902 - 1991
Christoph Körner
Born 1962
Wilhelm Spiegel
1876 - 1933
Detlef Krella
Born 1964
Klaus Farin
Born 1958
Mike Möllensiep
1975 - 2019
Marco Buschmann
Born 1977
Jörg Sobiech
Born 1969
Benjamin Wingerter
Born 1983
Norbert Elgert
Born 1957
Norbert Eilenfeldt
Born 1956
Wilhelm Zimmermann (évêque)
Born 1948
Ulrich Potofski
Born 1952
Hans-Werner Goetz
Born 1947
Luise Hoffmann
1910 - 1935
Jürgen Wagner (Aussteiger)
Born 1964
Oskar Eckholt
1894 - 1982
Helmut Ulm
1908 - 1975
August Duesberg
1867 - 1922
Wilhelm Ernst
1905 - 1952
Jutta Höhne
Born 1951
Jazzy
Born 1975
Andreas Mattner
Born 1960
Walter Weber (engineer)
1907 - 1944
Torsten Kerl
Born 1967
Heinz-Josef Koitka
Born 1952
Felix Knopp
Born 1975
Dieter Kuprella
Born 1946
Volker Wodzich
Born 1985
Dominik Ernst
Born 1990
Jo Knümann
1895 - 1952
Andreas Heege
Born 1957
Martha Schlinkert
1913 - 1979
Gisbert Schneider
1934 - 2018
Ulrich Bittcher
Born 1957
Karl Schwesig
1898 - 1955
HG. Butzko
Born 1965
Carl Hundhausen
1893 - 1977
Arthur Imhausen
1885 - 1951
Paul Maenz
Born 1939
Michael Galla
1972 - 2011
Bastian Bielendorfer
Born 1984
Uwe Puschner
Born 1954
Tristan Brusch
Born 1988
Björn Freitag
Born 1973
Franz Segbers
Born 1949
Maria Weber (Gewerkschafterin)
1919 - 2002
Oliver Steurer
Born 1995
Georg Geismann
Born 1935
Ali Kandil
Born 1986
Norbert Nieroba
Born 1964
Werner Ipta
1942 - 2019
Ernst Moritz Hess
1890 - 1983
Britta Steilmann
Born 1966
Günter K. Koschorrek
Born 1923
Wolfgang E. Heinrichs
Born 1956
Peter Liedtke
Born 1959
Margarete Franke
1909 - 2011
Hans Klose
1880 - 1963
Otto Laszig
1934 - 2014
Heinz Stein
Born 1934
Wilhelm Kühlmann
Born 1946
Konrad Bauer
1919 - 1990
Ilse Brusis
Born 1937
Herbert Tengelmann
1896 - 1959
Gerd Kasperski
1949 - 2008
Wilhelm Börger
1896 - 1962
Elke U. Weber
Born 1950
Cihan Yıldız
Born 1993
Hubert Burczek
Born 1955
Norbert Dörmann
Born 1958
Angelika Menne-Haritz
Born 1949
Kurt Rossa
1930 - 1998
Wolfgang Künne
Born 1944
Renate Roland
Born 1948
Matthias Lemke
Born 1978
Joachim Hess
1925 - 1992
Susanne Neumann
1959 - 2019
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Dirigent)
1903 - 1975
Alfred Draxler
Born 1953
Hanno Kesting
1925 - 1975
Roger Matura
Born 1953
Hans Gerzlich
Born 1967
Thomas Kesseler
Born 1956
Andreas Seifert
Born 1959
Fritz Duda
1904 - 1991
Will Schwarz (Architekt)
1907 - 1992
Harald Ortwig
Born 1959
Hans Quecke (Politiker)
1901 - 1945
Axel Kuhn (Historiker)
Born 1943
Andreas Tietze
Born 1962
Uli Möller
Born 1956
Friedrich Lenger
Born 1957
Walter Ferber
1907 - 1996
Hermann Franz (Manager)
1928 - 2016
Rainer Podeswa
Born 1957
Güngör Kaya
Born 1990
Kurt Neuwald
1906 - 2001
Traugott Jähnichen
Born 1959
Heinz-Werner Neudorfer
Born 1952
Heinrich Maria Denneborg
1909 - 1987
Albert Bleckmann
1933 - 2004
Pillath
Born 1982
Dustin Strahlmeier
Born 1992
Claudia Prietzel
Born 1958
Raphael Rubino
Born 1971
Wolfgang Liesen
Born 1936
Walter Borbet
1881 - 1942
Wilhelm Brepohl (Soziologe)
1893 - 1975
Wolfgang Rother (Philosoph)
Born 1955
Frank Eckardt
Born 1967
Jelena Jakopin
Born 1981
Gerd Ruebenstrunk
Born 1951
Werner Kuhlmann
1921 - 1992
Manfred Kreuz
Born 1936
Karl Viëtor
1892 - 1951
Jürgen Kramer
1948 - 2011
Gerhard Wagner (Fußballspieler)
Born 1944
Robert-Hermann Tenbrock
1908 - 1995
Gerhard Taddey
1937 - 2013
Frank Baranowski
Born 1962
Hans-Otto Günther
Born 1948
Dirk Karkuth
1962 - 2003
Georg Bussmann
Born 1933
Karsten Scholz
Born 1969
Hermann Moog
1901 - 1974
Wilhelm Dreier
1928 - 1993
Waldemar Gerhardt
Born 1939
Rudolf Schulte im Hofe
1865 - 1928
Thorsten Dietz
Born 1971
Marit Rullmann
Born 1953
Ina Schabert
Born 1940
Denis Boniver
1897 - 1961
Bruno Zboralski
1921 - 1987
Dan Vyleta
Born 1974
Connor Krempicki
Born 1994
Wilhelm Beermann
1936 - 2020
Immo Karaman
Born 1972
Alfred Krause (Gewerkschafter)
1922 - 2019
Turgay Doğan
Born 1974
Wilhelm Wolfgang Bröll
1913 - 1989
Olaf Reidt
Born 1964
Erich Hoppmann
1923 - 2007
Adolphe Lechtenberg
Born 1952
Markus Schwiderowski
Born 1973
Reinhard Schneider (Autor)
Born 1952
Rainer Johannes Homburg
Born 1966
Sarah Latton
Born 1979
Günter Nehm
1926 - 2009
Ellen Schmidt
1922 - 1997
Klaus Rohmann
Born 1939
Anja Kofbinger
Born 1960
Isabel Strauss
1928 - 1973
Ulrich Tadday
Born 1963
Jörg Dahlmann
Born 1959
Josef Winschuh
1897 - 1970
Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller
Born 1929
Dieter Haselbach
Born 1954
Eckehard Specht
Born 1952
Wolfgang Holzmaïr
1933 - 2013
Georg Funke
1955 - 2018
Max Lucks
Born 1997
Franz Hubert Timmermann
Born 1933
Andreas Exner (Künstler)
Born 1962
Hugo Stehkämper
1929 - 2010
Werner Mittelstaedt
Born 1954
Heinz Murach
1926 - 2007
Jürgen Sobieray
Born 1950
Christian Nienhaus
Born 1976
Heinz-Alfred Steiner
Born 1936
Carl Hellmut Fritzsche
1895 - 1968
Hugo Boguslawski
Born 1970
Uwe Höfer
Born 1959
Rüdiger Klimecki
1951 - 2009
August Abel
1887 - 1962
Rainer Elschen
Born 1951
Niko Ulanovsky
Born 1997
Dorothee Dzwonnek
Born 1957
Richard Limpert
1922 - 1991
Manfred Komorowski
Born 1948