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.

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  • Military
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Showing 53 of 1,581 notable people

0086 PIANIST

Pavel Pabst

1854 - 1897

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0109 HISTORIAN

Konrad Burdach

1859 - 1936

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0137 HISTORIAN

Georg von Below

1858 - 1927

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0187 CHEMIST

Paul Friedländer (chemist)

1857 - 1923

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0290 PHYSICIST

Richard Börnstein

1852 - 1913

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0293 SCULPTOR

Eugen Boermel

1858 - 1932

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0318 ACTOR

Arthur Kraußneck

1856 - 1941

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0345 ENGINEER

Richard von Helmholtz

1852 - 1934

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0362 ACADEMIC

Konrad Cosack

1855 - 1933

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0369 BANK

Walter Simon (philanthropist)

1857 - 1920

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0414 LITERARY

Eugen Zabel

1851 - 1924

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0430 ACTOR

Max Ruhbeck

1858 - 1945

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0504 DERMATOLOGIST

Samuel Jessner

1859 - 1929

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0511 PHOTOGRAPHER

Franz Goerke

1856 - 1931

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0631 POLITICIAN

Ferdinand Rogalla von Bieberstein

1857 - 1945

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0648 GEOLOGIST

Johannes Lehmann-Hohenberg

1851 - 1925

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0719 ACTOR

Adalbert Matkowsky

1857 - 1909

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0770 ACADEMIC

Richard Sternfeld (Historiker)

1858 - 1926

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0774 WRITER

Marie Bernhard

1852 - 1937

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0798 ARCHIVIST

Hermann Hoogeweg

1857 - 1930

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0844 MUSIC

Margarethe Quidde

1858 - 1940

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0854 ARCHITECT

Otto Herrnring

1858 - 1921

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0871 WRITER

Johannes Friedrich Guttzeit

1853 - 1935

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0915 CHEMIST

Paul Jacobson

1859 - 1923

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0956 ACADEMIC

Wilhelm Strecker (Agronom)

1858 - 1934

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0957 PHYSICIST

Ernst Bessel Hagen

1851 - 1923

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0960 ACADEMIC

Gustav Diercks

1852 - 1934

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0967 POLITICIAN

Kurt Schustehrus

1856 - 1913

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0975 LAWYER

Hans Crüger

1859 - 1927

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0993 MANUFACTURER

Julius Wilhelm von Pittler

1854 - 1910

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1047 SURGEON

Fritz Karl Bessel-Hagen

1856 - 1945

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1051 MUSIC

Albert Krantz (Musiker)

1851 - 1938

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1060 WRITER

Franz Curt Reinhard Eschle

1859 - 1919

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1062 POLITICIAN

Martin von Wegnern

1855 - 1897

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1071 SINGER

Paul Jensen (Schauspieler)

1850 - 1931

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1099 STATISTIKER

Ernst Hirschberg

1859 - 1906

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1105 MANUFACTURER

Julius Konegen

1857 - 1916

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1132 AUTHOR

Oskar Maria Stensbeck

1858 - 1939

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1169 PAINTER

Albert Duchow

1859 - 1931

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1196 LAWYER

Max Richter (Ministerialbeamter)

1856 - 1921

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1222 WRITER

Johannes Gerschmann

1858 - 1928

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1246 ACTOR

Emma Reichel

1857 - 1931

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1260 ANATOMIST

Richard Zander (anatomist)

1855 - 1918

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1262 ACADEMIC

Johannes Galli (Metallurg)

1856 - 1927

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1273 MATHEMATICIAN

Ludwig Scheeffer

1859 - 1885

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1282 PHOTOGRAPHER

Oscar Bittrich

1853 - 1941

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1317 ACTOR

Oskar Gimnig

1856 - 1920

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1338 INVENTOR

Richard Koss

1850 - 1932

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1349 POLITICIAN

Walter Rogalla von Bieberstein

1851 - 1914

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1359 GENERALMAJOR

Georg von Rode

1857 - 1927

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1437 ENGINEER

Friedrich Krause (Bauingenieur)

1856 - 1925

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1524 POLITICIAN

Franz Falkson

1850 - 1904

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1569 BEAMTE

Heinrich Maurach

1854 - 1904

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