50.5834° N, 8.6667° E
GIESSEN
Most Famous People Born in Giessen, Germany
- Notable people
- 517
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1934
- Most distinctive
- Chemist 7.2×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Giessen during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Giessen Is Known For
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Politician is Giessen's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (72).
Giessen over-indexes on chemist — 7.2× the global rate.
Giessen under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Giessen's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Sports
- Writing
- Film & TV
- Art & Design
- Other
Wilhelm Liebknecht
1826 - 1900
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
1818 - 1892
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
1854 - 1925
Walter Dornberger
1895 - 1980
Karl Vogt
1817 - 1895
Hermann Levi
1839 - 1900
Harald Lesch
Born 1960
Daniel Davari
Born 1988
Fritz Pfeffer
1889 - 1944
Hartley Shawcross
1902 - 2003
Friedrich Christian Diez
1794 - 1876
Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
1635 - 1709
Richard Münch (actor)
1916 - 1987
Georg Friedrich Knapp
1842 - 1926
Annika Beck
Born 1994
Volker Bouffier
Born 1951
Sonny Kittel
Born 1993
Johann Georg Wille
1715 - 1808
Lisa Mayer
Born 1996
Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen
1760 - 1806
Robert Rosenthal (psychologist)
Born 1933
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
1934 - 2017
Demis Nikolaidis
Born 1973
Helge Braun
Born 1972
Jürgen Flimm
Born 1941
Chris Liebing
Born 1968
Ernst Dieffenbach
1811 - 1855
Karl Kling
1910 - 2003
Wolfgang Rübsam
Born 1946
Ferdinand Küchler
1867 - 1937
Christian Ditter
Born 1977
Vincent Klink
Born 1949
Karl Engisch
1899 - 1990
Hein Heckroth
1901 - 1970
Udo Bullmann
Born 1956
Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt
1647 - 1680
Christoph Preuß
Born 1981
Charles Friedek
Born 1971
Jean Lobstein
1777 - 1835
Michael Bernhard Valentini
1657 - 1729
Shelley E. Taylor
Born 1946
Karl Hillebrand
1829 - 1884
Heinrich Curschmann
1846 - 1910
Albert Osswald
1919 - 1996
Heinrich Bernhard Ruppius
1688 - 1719
Stefan Bellof
1957 - 1985
Niko Nicotera
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Ernst Eckstein
1845 - 1900
Chaim Menachem Rabin
1915 - 1996
Gustav Böß
1873 - 1946
August Ludwig Follen
1794 - 1855
Helmut Roloff
1912 - 2001
Martin Wagenschein
1896 - 1988
Günter Wächtershäuser
Born 1938
Okan Derici
Born 1993
Gian-Luca Itter
Born 1999
Julia Sude
Born 1987
Hermann Welcker
1822 - 1897
Agnes von Zahn-Harnack
1884 - 1950
Shaghayegh Dehghan
Born 1979
Julius Wilbrand
1839 - 1906
Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher
1889 - 1992
Fritz Heichelheim
1901 - 1968
Jesko Friedrich
Born 1974
Johann Balthasar Schupp
1610 - 1661
Karl von Bardeleben
1849 - 1919
Johann Just Winckelmann
1620 - 1699
Sigmund Livingston
1872 - 1946
Justus Köhncke
Born 1966
Jochen Schropp
Born 1978
Peter Reichel
Born 1951
Dino Radončić
Born 1999
Lore Bert
Born 1936
Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Grolman
1775 - 1829
Urs Kindhäuser
Born 1949
Deniz Vural
Born 1988
Ludwig Lange (physicist)
1863 - 1936
Matthias Hagner
Born 1974
Nico Rinderknecht
Born 1997
Jonathan Koch (rower)
Born 1985
Anne Imhof
Born 1978
Ludwig Schwabe
1835 - 1908
Jan Benzien
Born 1982
Omar El-Saeidi
Born 1980
Henner Winckler
Born 1969
Stefan Pucher
Born 1965
Lucia Puttrich
Born 1961
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Born 1964
Monika Schäfer-Korting
Born 1952
Prince Francis Ernest of Hesse-Darmstadt
1695 - 1716
Birgit Clarius
Born 1965
Michael North
Born 1954
Rudolf Leuckart (chemist)
1854 - 1889
Gustav Petri
1888 - 1945
Karl-Gottfried Nordmann
1915 - 1982
Ernst Friedberger
1875 - 1932
Kurt Reinhard (musicologist)
1914 - 1979
Hermann Stork
1911 - 1962
Joachim Faber
Born 1950
Bernhard Schädel
1878 - 1926
Helmut Ringsdorf
Born 1929
Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand
1811 - 1894
Paul Follen
1799 - 1844
Erich-Heinrich Clößner
1888 - 1976
Friedrich Hensing
1719 - 1745
Andreas Türck
Born 1968
Christa Blanke
Born 1948
Johann Conrad Felsing
1766 - 1819
Marie Wittich
1868 - 1931
Michael Kegler
Born 1967
Friedrich Noack
1858 - 1930
Friedrich Ulfers
Born 1934
Daniel Krauss
Born 1973
Simon Triebel
Born 1982
Julian Justus
Born 1988
Margret Fürer
1927 - 2012
Hermann Wilbrand
1851 - 1935
Johann Friedrich Hahn
1753 - 1779
Ulla Berkéwicz
Born 1951
Martin Faustmann
1822 - 1876
Gunnar Geisse
Born 1964
Alfred Bock (Schriftsteller)
1859 - 1932
Hanna Waag
1904 - 1995
Giovanni Speranza
Born 1982
Georg Christian Carl Henschel
1759 - 1835
Franz Dornseiff
1888 - 1960
Hanns Martell
Born 1955
Erhard Domay
1940 - 2012
Benedikt Turudić
Born 1997
August von Clemm
1837 - 1910
Eduard Dingeldey
1886 - 1942
Karl Sell (Theologe)
1845 - 1914
Wilhelm Clemm
1843 - 1883
Thaddäus Meilinger
Born 1982
Abraham Bar Menachem
1912 - 2017
Paul L. Strack
1904 - 1941
Gustav Heyer (forester)
1826 - 1883
Julian Theobald
Born 1984
Tatjana Višak
Born 1974
Jürgen Borchert (Jurist)
Born 1949
Henriette Fürth
1861 - 1938
Günther Rühle
Born 1924
Friedrich Maurer (Anatom)
1859 - 1936
Robin Amaize
Born 1994
Marcel Hagmann
Born 1983
Kaspar Ebel
1595 - 1664
Jochem Jourdan
Born 1937
Heinrich Karl Jaup
1781 - 1860
Johannes Lischka
Born 1987
Jan Schüler
Born 1963
Christian Ludwig Gersten
1701 - 1762
Marcel Römer
Born 1982
Caro (Sängerin)
Born 1958
Martin Stock (Komponist)
Born 1961
Peter Düttmann
1923 - 2001
Christa Habrich
1940 - 2013
Sabine Müller (Althistorikerin)
Born 1972
Kevin Schmidt (Handballspieler)
Born 1988
Joachim Vogel (Jurist)
1963 - 2013
Sabine Fehlemann
1941 - 2006
Verena Araghi
Born 1975
Ruth Kaps
Born 1968
Günther Leitz
1914 - 1969
Luk Pfaff
Born 1981
Veronika Peters
Born 1966
Arnold Spruck
1934 - 2013
Kurt A. Jung
1923 - 1990
Horst Stumpff
1887 - 1958
Alexander E. L. Schulin
Born 1965
Ludwig Linkmann
1902 - 1963
Paul Dienstbach
Born 1980
Hans-Rudolf Bork
Born 1955
Sophie Dannenberg
Born 1971
Christian Bischoff (Autor)
Born 1976
Anton Friedrich Koch
Born 1952
Heike Knortz
Born 1962
Christiane Conrad
Born 1949
Hans Meyer (Architekt)
1867 - 1949
Friedhelm von Notz
1935 - 2008
Max Meyerfeld
1875 - 1940
Philip Tiedemann
Born 1969
Mirjam Kubescha
Born 1971
Robert Fischer (Richter)
1911 - 1983
Albert Fromme
1881 - 1966
Katie Freudenschuss
Born 1976
Ernst Theodor Rietschel
Born 1941
Stefan Gärtner
Born 1973
Oliver Buslau
Born 1962
Günter Törner
Born 1947
Stephan Skalweit
1914 - 2003
Benno Walldorf
1928 - 1985
Hans Georg Gundel
1912 - 1999
Georg Meier (Schriftsteller)
Born 1947
Ursula Köllner
1920 - 1995
Rudolf Oeser (Schriftsteller)
1807 - 1859
Michael Utsch
Born 1960
Theo Schuster (Schachspieler)
1911 - 1998
Hans Georg Bertram
1936 - 2013
Sascha Feuchert
Born 1971
Thomas Ramge
Born 1971
Wolfgang Hilberg
1932 - 2015
Louis Wagner (American general)
1838 - 1914
Leonie Pankratz
Born 1990
Erwin Schliephake
1894 - 1995
Harald Gärtner
Born 1968
Julian Lenz
Born 1993
Helena Hufnagel
Born 1985
Marcus Reuter
Born 1966
Sven Keßler
Born 1991
Astrid Geisler (Journalistin)
Born 1974
Nkechi Madubuko
Born 1972
Marcel Verhoff
Born 1970
Beatrice Marscheck
Born 1985
Lars Pörschke
Born 1984
Louis Pahlow
Born 1970
Jörg Ennuschat
Born 1965
Werner Bock
1893 - 1962
Klaus Wolf (Geograph)
1938 - 2014
Hugo Kehrer
1876 - 1967
Hermann Schlosser
1889 - 1979
Karl Klingspor
1868 - 1950
Dagmar Schmidt (Politikerin, 1973)
Born 1973
Hans-Karl Stepp
1914 - 2006
Ludwig Höpfner
1743 - 1797
Wolfgang Greilich
Born 1954
Johann Ludwig Ferdinand Arnoldi
1737 - 1783
Wolfram Groddeck
Born 1949
Wilhelm Boeck
1908 - 1998
Rudolf Attig
1893 - 1981
Gesche Schünemann
Born 1982
Karl Retzlaff
1890 - 1967
Ulrich Seelbach
Born 1952
Matthias Ruffert
Born 1966
Johann Daniel Horstius
1616 - 1685
Heike Groos
1960 - 2017
Lars Peter Lueg
Born 1974
Sabine Trinkaus
Born 1969
Curt Reinhard Dietz
1896 - 1949
Georg Röder (Maler)
1867 - 1958
Michael Walter (Musikwissenschaftler)
Born 1958
Georg von Liebig
1827 - 1903
Christoph Amend
Born 1974
Rafaela Hillerbrand
Born 1976
Julia Charlotte Richter
Born 1982
Ewald Volhard
1900 - 1945
Steffen Augsberg
Born 1976
Angelika Bier
Born 1952
Adolf Roth
Born 1937
Katharina Schmalenberg
Born 1973
Dietrich Faber
Born 1969
Emmy Diemer-Nicolaus
1910 - 2008
August Bostroem
1886 - 1944
Carsten Wilke (Forstmann)
Born 1960
Oliver Hinz
Born 1974
Cornelia Kühn-Leitz
1937 - 2016
Aline Bock
Born 1982
Dorothée-Sophie de Hesse-Darmstadt
1689 - 1723
Carl Clemm
1836 - 1899
Benjamin Lischka
Born 1989
Kim Nekarda
Born 1973
Arvid Kappas
Born 1962
Wilhelm Sundheim
1840 - 1903
Friedrich Heyer von Rosenfeld
1828 - 1897
Ernst Ludwig Christoph von Spiegel
1711 - 1785
Peter Radojewski
Born 1968
Timm Schneider
Born 1988
Henning Kober (Schauspieler)
Born 1968
Kai von Lewinski
Born 1970
Jakob Kühnemann
Born 1984
Ernst Holtzmann
1902 - 1996
Harald Danne
Born 1955
Simon Katzenstein
1868 - 1945
Jamaar Taylor
Born 1981
Gustav Vogt (Jurist)
1829 - 1901
Prince Robin of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
Born 1938
Wilhelm Conrad (Politiker)
1911 - 1971
Jochen Retter
Born 1970
Stefanie Menzinger
Born 1965
Elisabeth Rieken
Born 1965
Gustav Adolf Schlemm
1902 - 1987
Hermann Heußner
1926 - 1996
Joe Filisko
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Balthasar Mentzer der Jüngere
1614 - 1679
Karl Umpfenbach
1832 - 1907
Heinrich Dittmar (Historiker)
1934 - 2014
Balthasar Mentzer IV
1679 - 1741
Jörg Kaessmann
Born 1968
Friedrich Schürer (Konstrukteur)
1881 - 1948
Georg Wellhausen
1898 - 1987
Willi Rösel
Born 1954
Hermann Haas
1878 - 1935
Lesch Schmidt
Born 1957
Yacin Hehrlein
Born 1964
Olaf Amblank
Born 1970
Angelika Westermann
Born 1945
Adolf Buff
1838 - 1901
Holger Senzel
Born 1959
Wolfgang Luh
Born 1940
Daniel Grolle
Born 1963
Johann Melchior Verdries
1679 - 1735