53.5500° N, 10.0000° E
HAMBURG
Most Famous People Born in Hamburg, Germany
- Notable people
- 7,049
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1927
- Most distinctive
- Merchant 13.2×
A merchant republic in everything but name. Hamburg's most distinctive profession is merchant at more than thirteen times the global rate — the officers of a Hanseatic free port that governed itself through its own Senate until the 19th century — alongside an unusually thick column of authors, theologians, judges, and academics. Politicians still account for almost a sixth of all notable births here, more than in any other German city, and the 1800s are unusually heavy.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Hamburg Is Known For
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Politician is Hamburg's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (979).
Hamburg over-indexes on merchant — 13.2× the global rate.
Hamburg under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Hamburg's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Peter Behrens
1868 - 1940
Aby Warburg
1866 - 1929
Martha Bernays
1861 - 1951
Paul Warburg
1868 - 1932
Emil von Sauer
1862 - 1942
Max Warburg
1867 - 1946
Otto Eckmann
1865 - 1902
Lida Gustava Heymann
1868 - 1943
Wilhelm Sievers
1860 - 1921
Willy Burmester
1869 - 1933
Max Nonne
1861 - 1959
Frederick Richard Simms
1863 - 1944
Adolph Goldschmidt
1863 - 1944
Otto Beit
1865 - 1930
Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
1865 - 1921
Rudolf Lettinger
1865 - 1937
Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt
1861 - 1938
Franz Stuhlmann
1863 - 1928
Carl Wilhelm Petersen
1868 - 1933
Albert Kirchner
1860 - 1901
Ferry Sikla
1865 - 1932
Alfred Vierkandt
1867 - 1953
Wilhelm Michaelsen
1860 - 1937
Ernst Eitner
1867 - 1955
Alma del Banco
1862 - 1943
Henri Hinrichsen
1868 - 1942
Alexander Tornquist
1868 - 1944
Margarethe Lenore Selenka
1860 - 1923
Reinhard Süring
1866 - 1950
Anna Führing
1866 - 1929
Richard Burmeister
1860 - 1944
Walter Dieckmann
1869 - 1926
Karl Scheffler (Kunstkritiker)
1869 - 1951
Wilhelm Carstens
1869 - 1941
Edgar Jaffé
1866 - 1921
Emmi Walther
1860 - 1936
John von Berenberg-Gossler
1866 - 1943
Adolf Weidig
1867 - 1931
Paul Langhans
1867 - 1952
Karl August Gustav Fiebrig
1869 - 1951
Albert Köster
1862 - 1924
August Roterberg
1867 - 1928
Albert Görland
1869 - 1952
Erwin Günther (Maler)
1864 - 1927
Wilhelm Mauke
1867 - 1930
Ernst Baasch
1861 - 1947
Walter Magnussen
1869 - 1946
Johannes Sieveking
1869 - 1942
Bernhard Dessau
1861 - 1923
Carl Albrecht (Maler)
1862 - 1926
Christian Maximilian Hugo Glück
1868 - 1940
Robert Steidl
1865 - 1927
John Hagenbeck
1866 - 1940
Ernst Levy von Halle
1869 - 1909
Karl Theodor Boehme
1866 - 1939
Bruno Schröder (Bankier)
1867 - 1940
Heinrich Conrad
1866 - 1919
Emil Heilbut
1861 - 1921
Henry Pels
1865 - 1931
Heinrich Umlauff
1868 - 1925
Helene Riechers
1869 - 1957
Óscar Burchard Kessels
1863 - 1949
Georg Deycke
1865 - 1938
Karl Biese
1863 - 1926
Hermann Haase (Maler)
1862 - 1934
Max L. Strack
1867 - 1914
Oskar Schwindrazheim
1865 - 1952
Martin Rücker von Jenisch
1861 - 1924
Ludwig Wolf (Musiker)
1867 - 1955
Otto Linne
1869 - 1937
Heinrich Fricke
1860 - 1917
Paul Rauert
1863 - 1938
Paul Kayser (Maler)
1869 - 1942
Karl Josef Müller
1865 - 1942
Carl von Zeska
1862 - 1938
Paul de Mathies
1868 - 1924
Gustav Brandt (Karikaturist)
1861 - 1919
August Rieper
1865 - 1940
Wilhelm Spohr
1868 - 1959
Julius Wohlers
1867 - 1953
Johannes Hirsch
1861 - 1935
Ernst Riess (Philologe)
1865 - 1947
Clemens Schultz
1862 - 1914
Ernst Delbanco
1869 - 1935
Bernhard Gutmann
1869 - 1936
Karl Sieveking (Ministerialbeamter)
1863 - 1932
Zerline Drucker
1865 - 1937
Hermann Joachim
1868 - 1931
Paul Ruben
1866 - 1943
Moritz Fürst
1865 - 1942
Julius Caesar Stülcken
1867 - 1925
Edmund Kelter
1867 - 1942
Gustav Leo
1868 - 1944
Mary Warburg
1866 - 1934
August Roeseler
1866 - 1934
Emil Böse
1868 - 1927
Margarethe Otto-Körner
1868 - 1937
Geo Wolters
1866 - 1943
Alexander Sokolowsky
1866 - 1949
Jon Popp
1862 - 1953
Richard Robinow
1867 - 1945
Gustav Weihrauch
1862 - 1940
Hermann Hoefer
1868 - 1945
Axel de Chapeaurouge
1861 - 1941
Walter Robinow
1867 - 1938
Albert Wulff (Jurist)
1866 - 1941
Karl Otto Matthaei
1863 - 1931
Semmy Engel
1864 - 1948
Alexander Schön
1864 - 1941
Leopold Günther-Schwerin
1865 - 1945
Kurt von Mutzenbecher
1866 - 1938
Ludwig Brahm
1862 - 1926
Georg Herman Sieveking
1867 - 1954
Cäsar Ahrens
1868 - 1934
Oskar Ollendorff
1865 - 1939
Ernst Holtermann
1867 - 1922
Ernst Zimmermann (Kunsthistoriker)
1866 - 1940
Eduard Hallier
1866 - 1959
Wilhelm Schack
1869 - 1944
Otto Jessen (Philologe)
1864 - 1936
William Lottig
1867 - 1953
Henry Nathan
1862 - 1932
Carl Brekelbaum
1863 - 1956
Julius Goldfeld
1860 - 1937
Anton Rodatz
1866 - 1926
Franz Ferdinand Eiffe (Politiker, 1860)
1860 - 1941
Wilhelm Kniest
1863 - 1951
George Radel
1860 - 1948
John Petersen
1860 - 1939
Carl Pfingsthorn
1860 - 1939
Eduard Pietzcker
1862 - 1930
Wilhelm Hellmuth-Bräm (Schauspieler, 1864) – Wi
1864 - 1928
Ernst Alfred O’Swald
1861 - 1929
Paul Heinrich Trummer (Kaufmann)
1862 - 1915
Otto Wilhelm Krogmann
1866 - 1929
Carl Ritscher
1868 - 1940
Anna Schaper
1867 - 1933
Otto Julius Fahr
1862 - 1930
Adolf Ahlers
1864 - 1943
Carl Bunzel
1869 - 1929
Sophie Jansen
1862 - 1942
Wolfgang Meyer (Lehrer)
1867 - 1957
Wilhelm Dettmer (Schauspieler)
1860 - 1925
Gustav Carl Framhein
1864 - 1938
Hermann Wurzbach
1865 - 1905
Caesar Scharff
1864 - 1902
Anton Meyer-Gerhard
1868 - 1947
Walter Martens (Architekt)
1860 - 1937
Robert Eduard Loesener
1869 - 1960
Wolfgang Michael
1862 - 1945
Anna Wilhelmine Catharina Veldkamp
1865 - 1944
James Henschel
1863 - 1939
Otto Krahn
1868 - 1939
Woldemar Neubert
1860 - 1918
Claus von Borcke
1868 - 1949
Adolph Eckhardt
1868 - 1942
Paul Asten
1861 - 1925
Hermann Grimm (Maler)
1860 - 1931
Eduard Würfel
1860 - 1917
Bruno Henne
1863 - 1902
Georg Albert Hübener
1865 - 1925
Erna Wichmann-Elmqvist
1869 - 1966
Hans Lorenz-Meyer
1861 - 1947