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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Kaliningrad during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Kaliningrad Is Known For
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Politician is Kaliningrad's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (150).
Kaliningrad over-indexes on leutnant — 30.8× the global rate.
Kaliningrad under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.
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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Leah Goldberg
1911 - 1970
Gerhard Barkhorn
1919 - 1983
Konrad Hesse
1919 - 2005
Lothar Malskat
1913 - 1988
Karl William Kapp
1910 - 1976
Walther Hubatsch
1915 - 1984
Herta Heuwer
1913 - 1999
Rafael Artzy
1912 - 2006
Lotar Olias
1913 - 1990
Bruno Liebrucks
1911 - 1986
Bill Alexander (painter)
1915 - 1997
Kurt Dahlmann
1918 - 2017
Johannes Buzalski
1918 - 1977
Hermann Hansen
1912 - 1944
Charlott Daudert
1913 - 1961
Chaim Kiewe
1912 - 1983
Leopold Ettlinger
1913 - 1989
Kurt Zehe
1913 - 1969
Ernst Tiburzy
1911 - 2004
Heinrich Koenen
1910 - 1945
Charlotte Tiedemann
1919 - 1979
Fred Thieler
1916 - 1999
Ernst Müller-Hermann
1915 - 1994
Gerhard Szczesny
1918 - 2002
Hans-Peter Kosack
1912 - 1976
Elisabeth Furse
1910 - 2002
Ruth Geede
1916 - 2018
Joel Elkes
1913 - 2015
Jakob Bamberger
1913 - 1989
Maria Ewel
1915 - 1988
Hans-Joachim Haecker
1910 - 1994
Theodor Kaluza (Mathematiker)
1910 - 1994
Friedrich Schlette
1915 - 2003
Ulrich Fischer (Prähistoriker)
1915 - 2005
Alfred Voigt
1913 - 1998
Heinz Demisch
1913 - 2000
Gerhard Schilfert
1917 - 2001
Alfred Klaus
1919 - 2008
Horst-Günter Benkmann
1915 - 1996
Martin Sperlich
1919 - 2003
Joachim-Ernst Meyer
1917 - 1998
Kurt Hasse (Kameramann)
1916 - 1999
Walter Bergman
1913 - 1986
Marianne Meyer-Krahmer
1919 - 2011
Heinz Teuchert
1914 - 1998
Horst Kudritzki
1911 - 1970
Helmut Arndt (Ökonom)
1911 - 1997
Gerhard Klumbies
1919 - 2015
Hans-Georg Wormit
1912 - 1992
Richard Süssenguth
Born 1916
Jockel Stahl
1911 - 1957
Erich Glagau
1914 - 2017
Wolfgang Philipp (Theologe)
1915 - 1969
Siegfried Perrey
1915 - 1984
Gerhard Mitscherlich
1911 - 2007
Cuno Winkler
1919 - 2003
Walter Adamson
1911 - 2010
Irmtraut Wäger
1919 - 2014
Carl Heinz Brieskorn
1913 - 2000
Elisabeth Herrmann (Schriftstellerin, 1910) – Wi
1910 - 1984
Heinz Frehsee
1916 - 2004
Ottokar Israel
1919 - 2004
Helmut Fiehn
1916 - 1943
Hans Kaufmann (Informatiker)
1910 - 2012
Horst-Arno Fenski
1918 - 1965
Erwin Shoultz-Carrnoff
1913 - 1990
Gerhard Saager
1910 - 1992
Freyja Scholing
1912 - 2005
Eilhard Mitscherlich (Veterinärmediziner)
1913 - 2002
Wolfhart Burdenski
1915 - 2010
Kurt Bachor
1916 - 1989
Martin Eidt
1914 - 2005
Karl Konrad von der Groeben
1918 - 2005
Alfredo Czarninski
1916 - 2003
Alfred Hein
1914 - 1971
Jürgen Lenz (Schriftsteller)
1916 - 1990
Hans Hermann Henseleit
1911 - 1997
Gerhard Assmann
1915 - 1976
Georg-Winfried Schmidt
1917 - 2008
Hans-Günther Bethke
1913 - 1942
Siegfried Brosow
1918 - 2008
Eberhard Eschenbach
1913 - 1964
Willi Kuhn
1911 - 1982
Werner Behrend
1918 - 1987
Karl Iffländer
1912 - 1983
Fritz Schiller
1912 - 1992
Walter Ostendorff
1918 - 1989
Brigitte Tilsner
1918 - 2002
Arthur Domscheit
1914 - 2006
Ernst-Willi Saffran
1916 - 1988
Karl-Heinz Jettka
1914 - 1982
Horst Peets
Born 1919