52.3744° N, 9.7378° E
HANNOVER
Most Famous People Born in Hannover, Germany
- Notable people
- 2,767
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1908
- Most distinctive
- Author 4.5×
A Lower Saxon court city whose most famous descendants sat on the British throne. Hannover's distinctive professions are authors, theologians, academics, and chemists — the trades of an old Welf residence and a Lutheran university town — and its most famous daughter is Hannah Arendt. George I and George II were both born here, and the 18th-century bench still carries the courtly shape of the personal union with Britain.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Hannover during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Hannover Is Known For
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Politician is Hannover's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (320).
Hannover over-indexes on author — 4.5× the global rate.
Hannover under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Hannover's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Science
- Art & Design
- Film & TV
- Sports
- Other
- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Kurt Schwitters
1887 - 1948
Mary Wigman
1886 - 1973
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
1884 - 1951
Bernhard Rust
1883 - 1945
Paul von Hase
1885 - 1944
Georg Alexander
1888 - 1945
Egon Petri
1881 - 1962
Lucie Höflich
1883 - 1956
Reinhold Rudenberg
1883 - 1961
Heino von Heimburg
1889 - 1945
Paul Günther
1882 - 1959
Ricardo Wolf
1887 - 1981
Iris Runge
1888 - 1966
Albert Herrmann
1886 - 1945
Friedrich Brunstäd
1883 - 1944
Eberhard Grisebach
1880 - 1945
Schwester Selma
1884 - 1984
Karl Hasselmann
1883 - 1966
John Höxter
1884 - 1938
Wolfgang Kohlrausch
1888 - 1980
Hans Ehelolf
1881 - 1939
Kurt Albert Gerlach
1886 - 1922
Georg Prange
1885 - 1941
Richard Prager
1883 - 1945
Johann Culemeyer
1883 - 1951
Ernst Sommerlath
1889 - 1983
Willy Hanft
1888 - 1987
Arnold Freiherr von Biegeleben
1883 - 1940
Herbert von Garvens-Garvensburg
1883 - 1957
Julius E. F. Gipkens
1883 - 1968
Marie von Malachowski-Nauen
1880 - 1943
Johanna Geisler
1888 - 1956
Max Hagemann
1883 - 1968
Julie Schrader
1881 - 1939
Arthur Menge
1884 - 1965
Hans Goslar
1889 - 1945
Walter Jerven
1889 - 1945
Änne Koken
1885 - 1919
Bernhard Berliner
1885 - 1976
Eduard Berend
1883 - 1973
Fritz Berend (Dirigent)
1889 - 1955
Erik von Witzleben
1884 - 1958
Paul Bollmann
1885 - 1944
Siegfried Berliner (Physiker)
1884 - 1961
Udo Peters
1883 - 1964
Wilhelm Rode
1887 - 1959
Hans Bogislav Graf von Schwerin
1883 - 1967
Ada Lessing
1883 - 1953
Ludwig Ey (Verleger)
1887 - 1968
Friedrich Bleibaum
1885 - 1974
Carl Loges
1887 - 1958
Julius Sternheim (Filmproduzent)
Born 1881
Iwan Katz
1889 - 1956
Hans-Georg von Jagow
1880 - 1945
Karl Friedrich Leonhardt
1882 - 1940
Friedrich Buhmann (Kaufmann)
1882 - 1962
Wilhelm Offenstein
1889 - 1964
Adolf Abter
1887 - 1944
Heinz Keune
1881 - 1946
Hans Heinrich Grotjahn
1887 - 1962
Heinz Appel (Unternehmer)
1884 - 1962
Max Schleisner
1885 - 1943
Paul Willführ
1885 - 1922
Ernst Hegewisch
1881 - 1963
Paul Alpers
1887 - 1968
Georg Spackeler
1883 - 1960
William Minot Guertler
1880 - 1959
Otto Jenssen
1883 - 1963
Wilhelm Patsche
1887 - 1968
Rolf von Humann
1885 - 1961
Walter Wetzel
1887 - 1978
Emil Conrad
1885 - 1967
Friedrich Hans Koken
1883 - 1946
Julius Friedrich Willy Frerk
1886 - 1960
Arnt Kohlrausch
1884 - 1969
Wilken von Alten
1885 - 1944
Franz Peffer
1887 - 1937
Wilhelm Rümann (Admiral)
1881 - 1946
Ernst August Büttner
1881 - 1955
Walther Jänecke
1888 - 1965
Karl Eggers (SA-Mitglied)
1883 - 1958
Georg Lindemann (Politiker)
1885 - 1961
Heinrich Rudolf Wehrhahn
1887 - 1940
Rudolf Wedekind (Paläontologe)
1883 - 1961
Marie Jorns
1883 - 1975
Philipp Gades (Architekt, 1886)
1886 - 1961
Therese Wittrock
1888 - 1957
Wilhelm Eggers
1887 - 1952
Heinrich Möhle
1888 - 1962
Franz Freidel
1888 - 1938
Wilhelm Dieckmann (Politiker, 1889)
1889 - 1947
Gustav Wagemann
1885 - 1933
Arthur Zitscher
1880 - 1965
Hans Gebhard von Kotze
1889 - 1942
Karl Herzfeld (Bankier)
1883 - 1970
Otto Schendel
1888 - 1943
Charles Bünte
1880 - 1943
William Willführ
1881 - 1964
Rudolf Behrens (Schriftsteller)
1889 - 1943
Paula Henningsen
1881 - 1969
Otto Werner (Unternehmer)
1884 - 1955
Wilhelm Voigt (Pastor)
1889 - 1963
Georg Lichtenberg (Landrat)
1886 - 1973
Adolf Mühlhan
1886 - 1956
Walter vom Hove
1881 - 1932
Heinrich Rinne
1882 - 1953
Julius Oelkers
1882 - 1963
Heinz Mühlenbein (Maler)
1883 - 1976
Kurt Eberhard Goellner
1880 - 1955
Ludwig Thiele (Architekt)
1885 - 1972
Karl Meinberg
Born 1889
Hans Braumüller (Generalmajor)
1883 - 1956
Karl Kirchmann
1885 - 1967
Wilhelm Schindelhauer
1887 - 1959
Hans Völker (Maler)
1889 - 1960
Friedrich von Wilmowsky
1881 - 1970
Richard Linde
1880 - 1965
Ludwig Wellhausen
1884 - 1940
Heinz Oppermann
1882 - 1958
Edith Trautwein
1882 - 1967
Wilhelm Dantz
1886 - 1948
Friedrich Flörke
1888 - 1983
Gustav Ebert
1886 - 1968
Gerhard Rusch
1884 - 1936
Heinrich Grote (Mediziner)
1888 - 1945
Wilhelm Schelter (Politiker, 1881)
1881 - 1925