54.7184° N, 20.5114° E

KALININGRAD

Most Famous People Born in Kaliningrad, Russia

Notable people
1,581
Peak decade
1930s
Median birth year
1884
Most distinctive
Leutnant 30.8×

Königsberg until 1945, and almost the entire pre-war bench is German. Kaliningrad's distinctive professions are Leutnants, Generalmajoren, theologians, teachers, academics, and mathematicians — the officers and scholars of the old East Prussian capital — and its most famous son is Immanuel Kant, who never left the city. Hilbert, Hamann, Hoffmann, and Käthe Kollwitz were all born here before the Red Army arrived and the population was replaced almost wholesale.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Kaliningrad during each.

What Kaliningrad Is Known For

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Politician is Kaliningrad's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (150).

Kaliningrad over-indexes on leutnant30.8× the global rate.

Kaliningrad under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.

  1. Politician150
  2. Academic83
  3. Actor75
  4. Writer74
  5. Painter60
  6. Author57
  7. Historian51
  8. Lawyer48
  1. Leutnant1830.8×
  2. Generalmajor2527.4×
  3. Theologian396.8×
  4. Teacher205.4×
  5. Academic835.2×
  6. Mathematician354.4×
  7. Physicist284.3×
  8. Author574.2×
  1. Football320.2×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Kaliningrad's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

1550160016501700175018001850190019502000
  • Science
  • Writing
  • Politics & Law
  • Art & Design
  • Military
  • Film & TV
  • Other
All1,581
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Showing 48 of 1,581 notable people

0025 MATHEMATICIAN

Rudolf Lipschitz

1832 - 1903

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0032 MATHEMATICIAN

Carl Neumann

1832 - 1925

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0035 MATHEMATICIAN

Alfred Clebsch

1833 - 1872

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0041 BACTERIOLOGIST

Edwin Klebs

1834 - 1913

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0072 COMPOSER

Adolf Jensen

1837 - 1879

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0092 PHYSICIST

Rudolph Koenig

1832 - 1901

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0144 SCULPTOR

Rudolf Siemering

1835 - 1905

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0166 PATHOLOGIST

Franz Ernst Christian Neumann

1834 - 1918

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0176 CHEMIST

Oscar Liebreich

1839 - 1908

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0224 JOURNALIST

Otto Glagau

1834 - 1892

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0232 OPHTHALMOLOGIST

Richard Liebreich

1830 - 1917

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0246 HISTORIAN

Otto Stobbe

1831 - 1887

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0262 PAINTER

Hugo Knorr

1834 - 1904

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0265 MARINE

Max von der Goltz

1836 - 1906

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0357 MATHEMATICIAN

Louis Saalschütz

1835 - 1913

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0358 ECONOMIST

Friedrich Julius Neumann

1835 - 1910

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0363 JUDGE

Otto von Oehlschläger

1831 - 1904

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0456 POLITICIAN

August zu Eulenburg

1838 - 1921

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0460 HISTORIAN

Karl Güterbock

1830 - 1914

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0505 PLAYWRIGHT

Rudolf Kneisel

1832 - 1899

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0618 PAINTER

Luise Neumann (Malerin)

1837 - 1934

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0703 POLITICIAN

Emil von Burchard

1836 - 1901

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0724 THEOLOGIAN

Eduard Preuß

1834 - 1904

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0733 PAINTER

Carl Scherres

1833 - 1923

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0779 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Georg Bujack

1835 - 1891

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0787 PHYSICIAN

Karl Friedrich Skrzeczka

1833 - 1902

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0833 PAINTER

Gustav Eilers

1834 - 1911

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0872 ACADEMIC

Leonard Jacobi

1832 - 1900

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0923 VIOLIN

George Japha

1835 - 1892

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0926 ACADEMIC

Adolf von Gizycki

1834 - 1891

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1026 HISTORIAN

Arthur Kittel

1838 - 1926

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1039 LEUTNANT

Heinrich von Hagen

1831 - 1905

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1080 PHYSICIAN

Ernst Burow

1838 - 1885

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1117 ECOLOGIST

Hugo Hildebrandt (Gynäkologe)

1833 - 1882

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1130 ACADEMIC

Walter von Funke

1832 - 1900

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1136 LAWYER

Karl von Portatius

1834 - 1877

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1323 POLITICIAN

Emil Jacobson

1833 - 1874

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1332 THEOLOGE

Leopold Götz

1833 - 1903

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1335 JUDGE

Paul Stolterfoth

1837 - 1894

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1355 ARCHITECT

Otto Ferdinand Lorenz

1838 - 1896

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1360 DIPLOMAT

Werner von Bergen

1839 - 1901

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1373 ACADEMIC

Hugo Grahl (Agrarwissenschaftler)

1834 - 1905

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1421 POLITICIAN

Jacob Horwitz

1830 - 1920

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1522 JUDGE

Albert Georg Ferdinand Wandersleben

1835 - 1900

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1543 ACTOR

Julius Witt

1835 - 1879

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1560 JUDGE

Gustav Calame

1830 - 1905

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1562 LANDRAT

Botho von Pusch

1834 - 1904

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1577 JUDGE

Charles Edward Gruenhagen

1833 - 1907

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