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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 1920s Clear ×
Rudolf Augstein
1923 - 2002
Herschel Grynszpan
1921 - 1942
Carl Dahlhaus
1928 - 1989
Gerhard Weinberg
Born 1928
Hanns Lothar
1929 - 1967
Jürgen von Beckerath
1920 - 2016
Karl Otto Pöhl
1929 - 2014
Hans Blum (musician)
Born 1928
Helmut Rohde
1925 - 2016
Klaus Traube
1928 - 2016
Günther Neutze
1921 - 1991
Edith Volkmann
1920 - 1997
Peter Gumpel
Born 1923
Werner Potzernheim
1927 - 2014
Hans Alfred Nieper
1928 - 1998
Herbert Mensching
1928 - 1981
Gerd Koch
1922 - 2005
Berthold Wulf
1926 - 2012
Erich Gerberding
1921 - 1986
Herbert Bötticher
1928 - 2008
Heinz Quermann
1921 - 2003
Hans-Thorald Michaelis
1925 - 2004
Kurt Schmidt-Clausen
1920 - 1993
Ilse Keydel
1921 - 2003
Horst Michael Neutze
1923 - 2006
Hildegard Hillebrecht
1927 - 2018
Klaus Kammer
1929 - 1964
Gerhard Wilhelm Becker
1927 - 2012
Wilhelm Macke
1920 - 1994
Wolfgang E. Burhenne
1924 - 2017
Leo Brawand
1924 - 2009
Gilbert Ziebura
1924 - 2013
Ernst Friedrich Brockmann
1920 - 1978
Henning Rischbieter
1927 - 2013
Rudolf Werner
1920 - 1996
Hans Walter Krumwiede
1921 - 2007
Peter Hübotter
1928 - 2002
Herbert Stiller
1923 - 1985
Werner Holtfort
1920 - 1992
Ingeborg Weigand
1920 - 1995
Curd Ochwadt
1923 - 2012
Adam Seide
1929 - 2004
Wolfgang Beermann
1921 - 2000
Thomas Weisgerber
1929 - 2018
Heinz Knoke (Maler)
1922 - 1991
Anneliese Ude-Pestel
1921 - 2017
Heimar Fischer-Gaaden
1923 - 2014
Hans-Eberhard Piepho
1929 - 2004
Theodor Schulze (Pädagoge)
Born 1926
Peter Norden
Born 1922
Hermann Gummel
Born 1923
Heinz-Wilhelm Alten
1929 - 2019
Hermann Bahlsen (Fabrikant, 1927)
1927 - 2014
Johann Georg Geyger
1921 - 2004
Dieter Tasch
Born 1928
Helmut M. Braem
1922 - 1977
Hans-Dietrich Raapke
1929 - 2016
Helmut Greulich
1923 - 1993
Jürgen Probst
1927 - 2016
Herbert Welling
Born 1929
Elfriede Aulhorn
1923 - 1991
Hans Schauer
1926 - 2010
Dirk Böttcher
1921 - 2011
Friedrich Karl Kienitz
1925 - 2012
Hanns-Joachim Marschall
1927 - 1999
Ilse Staff
1928 - 2017
Heinrich Schwarzer
1922 - 1992
Siegfried Salzmann
1928 - 1994
Wilhelm Klocke
1923 - 2012
Hermann Wagener (Verkehrswissenschaftler)
1921 - 1994
Dagmar Bergmeister
1929 - 2013
Thea Schmidt-Keune
1920 - 1993
Carl-Heinz Dömken
1929 - 2011
Erich Knocke
1927 - 2011
Georg W. Borsche
1922 - 1999
Bernd Rabe (Musiker)
1927 - 2001
Hans Rudolf Uthoff
Born 1927
Helmut Wilkens
1926 - 2009
Hanns Joachim Klug
1928 - 2013
Gerhard Priesemann
1925 - 2011
Uta von Kardorff
Born 1921
Joe Lobenstein
1926 - 2015
Ewald Brandt
1928 - 1983
Heinz-Detlef Drape
1920 - 1987
Harald Küthmann
1922 - 2013
Ernst Henze (Theologe)
1926 - 2008
Gabriele Marwede
Born 1925
Robert Billerbeck
1920 - 1993
Hans-Stephan Stender
1920 - 2007
Friedrich Kurbadt
1927 - 2015
Jochen Blume (Fotograf)
1925 - 2018
Gerhard Stoffert
Born 1929
Rudolf Warnke
Born 1927
Karl Hauenschild
1920 - 2006
Gerhard Möllhoff
1922 - 2005
Klaus Hupe
Born 1928
Karl-August Wetjen
1925 - 2014
Bernhard Kreibohm
1925 - 2000
Carl-Edzard Schelten-Peterssen
1921 - 1995
Karl Arndt (Kunsthistoriker)
1929 - 2018
Hans-Jürgen Junghans
1922 - 2003
Klaus Bendixen
1924 - 2003
Dietrich Krause
Born 1920
Hans Raffert
1927 - 2005
Ruth Schmidt-Niemack
1927 - 2011
Hans Georg Wäßerling
Born 1925
Sigrid Schneider
1928 - 1995
Helmut Fürst
1922 - 2012
Horst Langemann
1928 - 2011
Horst Bohne
Born 1929
Hans-Dieter Schrader
1929 - 2004
Reinhold Huckriede
1926 - 2014
Elisabeth Orth (Politikerin)
1921 - 1976
Hermann Blome
1920 - 1998
Wolfgang Schmidt (Mediziner)
1924 - 1999
Hans Joachim Wiemken
Born 1926
Günter Hake
1922 - 2000
Klaus Dieter Güse
1925 - 1987
Gerd Vogeley
Born 1925
Günter Twiesselmann
Born 1925
Wilfried Bode
1929 - 2012
David Platz
1929 - 1994
Ernest L. Daman
Born 1923
Curt Frankenstein
1922 - 2009
Wesley Frensdorff
1926 - 1988
Walter Günther (Reiter)
1921 - 1974
Horst Schweimler (Heimatforscher)
1927 - 2006
Werner Brenneisen
1927 - 2005
Richard Pieper
1923 - 1985
Hans-Jürgen Bartsch
Born 1921
Karl-Hermann Bortfeldt
Born 1921
Wilhelm Bergemann
Born 1920
Hans-Adolf Hedemann
1920 - 1990
Wolfgang Schmidt (Theologe)
1924 - 1998
Hans Wedemeyer
1923 - 1982
Günter Roth (Regisseur)
1925 - 2015