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

Click any row to filter the list of people below.

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
Sort By

Showing 72 of 1,581 notable people

0023 POLITICIAN

Otto Braun

1872 - 1955

Preview
0027 SECRETARY

Franz Schlegelberger

1876 - 1970

Preview
0028 AUTHOR

Agnes Miegel

1879 - 1964

Preview
0057 WRITER

Rudolf Borchardt

1877 - 1945

Preview
0061 HISTORIAN

Walter Bauer

1877 - 1960

Preview
0070 FILM

Leopold Jessner

1878 - 1945

Preview
0112 NAVAL

Hermann Bauer

1875 - 1958

Preview
0133 POLITICIAN

Wilhelm von Gayl

1879 - 1945

Preview
0156 POLITICIAN

Arthur Crispien

1875 - 1946

Preview
0181 ACTOR

Ernst Behmer

1875 - 1938

Preview
0205 AUTHOR

Friedrich Radszuweit

1876 - 1932

Preview
0207 PUBLISHER

Moses Annenberg

1877 - 1942

Preview
0244 PAINTER

Arnold Lyongrün

1871 - 1935

Preview
0281 POLITICIAN

Max Maurenbrecher

1874 - 1929

Preview
0304 PHILOLOGIST

Erich Berneker

1874 - 1937

Preview
0328 POLICE

Henriette Arendt

1874 - 1922

Preview
0377 GERMANIST

Heinrich Spiero

1876 - 1947

Preview
0391 WRITER

Carl Bulcke

1875 - 1936

Preview
0445 PAINTER

Helene Neumann

1874 - 1942

Preview
0459 ARCHITECT

Fritz Behrendt (Architekt)

1877 - 1941

Preview
0464 COMPOSER

Hugo Schlemüller

1872 - 1918

Preview
0495 JUDGE

Alexander Cohn

1876 - 1951

Preview
0551 SINGER

Arthur Preuss (Sänger)

1878 - 1944

Preview
0565 MATHEMATICIAN

Ernst Richard Neumann

1875 - 1955

Preview
0581 ACADEMIC

Max Isserlin

1879 - 1941

Preview
0583 PROFESSOR

Carl Franz (Sanitätsoffizier)

1870 - 1946

Preview
0591 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Paul Adloff

1870 - 1944

Preview
0602 ENGINEER

Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn

1879 - 1939

Preview
0652 ACTOR

Helene Fehdmer

1872 - 1939

Preview
0664 PUBLISHER

Paul Block

1877 - 1941

Preview
0675 LAWYER

Arnold Hasse

1873 - 1933

Preview
0697 PAINTER

Paul Matthes (Maler)

1872 - 1956

Preview
0754 WRITER

Georg Blumenthal (Schriftsteller)

1872 - 1929

Preview
0764 AUTHOR

Erminia von Olfers-Batocki

1876 - 1954

Preview
0796 THEOLOGIAN

Richard Adolf Hoffmann

1872 - 1948

Preview
0804 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Arnold Japha

1877 - 1943

Preview
0806 WRITER

Gerhard Bohlmann

1878 - 1944

Preview
0816 PAINTER

Bruno Bielefeldt

1879 - 1973

Preview
0825 POLITICIAN

Franz Bartschat

1872 - 1952

Preview
0839 KÄMPFER

Ludwig Meyländer genannt Rogalla von Bieberstein

1873 - 1940

Preview
0860 POLITICIAN

Alfred Belian

1873 - 1946

Preview
0862 CHEMIST

Max Paul Neumann

1874 - 1937

Preview
0886 ACTOR

Otto Maurenbrecher

1872 - 1960

Preview
0919 JOURNALIST

Ludwig Quessel

1872 - 1931

Preview
0944 WRITER

Dora Eleonore Behrend

1877 - 1945

Preview
0949 LAWYER

Wilhelm von Kuhlmann

1879 - 1937

Preview
0969 ACTOR

Bruno Harprecht

1875 - 1948

Preview
1021 AUTHOR

Adda von Königsegg

1872 - 1945

Preview
1090 ACADEMIC

Hans Holldack

1879 - 1950

Preview
1131 NOTARY

Bernhard Buchholz

1870 - 1954

Preview
1140 ENTREPRENEUR

Fritz Harney

1879 - 1953

Preview
1142 ENTREPRENEUR

Victor Teschendorff

1877 - 1960

Preview
1153 ZOOLOGIST

Max Rauther

1879 - 1951

Preview
1176 ACADEMIC

Paul Hübschmann

1878 - 1960

Preview
1180 PHYSICIST

Hans Gerdien

1877 - 1951

Preview
1189 WRITER

Otto Pietsch

1874 - 1960

Preview
1210 FORSCHER

Arthur Warda

1871 - 1929

Preview
1233 WRITER

Frieda Magnus-Unzer

1875 - 1966

Preview
1289 ACADEMIC

Oswald Arnoldt

1873 - 1922

Preview
1297 POLITICIAN

Eugen Wormit

1871 - 1927

Preview
1312 SCULPTOR

Bruno Wollstädter

1878 - 1940

Preview
1331 ACTOR

Wilhelm Mauren

1870 - 1929

Preview
1388 CERAMIST

Hermann Perl

1878 - 1967

Preview
1464 LANDRAT

Hugo Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe

1878 - 1920

Preview
1486 LAWYER

Arno von Rehbinder

1879 - 1957

Preview
1498 ARZT

Arthur Hiller (Mediziner)

1878 - 1949

Preview
1509 POLITICIAN

Edwin Adolar Klein

1874 - 1944

Preview
1511 KAUFMAN

Felix Japha

1875 - 1945

Preview
1518 JUDGE

Bernhard Ehrlich

1872 - 1938

Preview
1537 FARMER

Alfred Kahle

1876 - 1915

Preview
1552 PAINTER

David Zacharias

1871 - 1915

Preview
1555 DIPLOMAT

Max Hesse (Diplomat)

1870 - 1947

Preview