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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Harry Liedtke
1882 - 1945
Renate Ewert
1933 - 1966
Witta Pohl
1937 - 2011
Tatyana Arntgolts
Born 1982
Costa Ronin
Born 1979
Aleksandra Yakovleva
Born 1957
Tanja Mihhailova-Saar
Born 1983
Antje Weisgerber
1922 - 2004
Ernst Behmer
1875 - 1938
Willi Schrade
Born 1935
Clemens Hasse
1908 - 1959
Hella Moja
1890 - 1951
Anneli Granget
1935 - 1971
Eva Tinschmann
1893 - 1978
Johannes Buzalski
1918 - 1977
Gerda Müller
1894 - 1951
Walter Jankuhn
1888 - 1953
Charlott Daudert
1913 - 1961
Karl Haffner (Dramatiker)
1804 - 1876
Hermann Boettcher
1866 - 1935
Alena Savostikova
Born 1991
Arthur Kraußneck
1856 - 1941
Artyom Tkachenko
Born 1982
Kurt Zehe
1913 - 1969
Irene Mann
1929 - 1996
Max Ruhbeck
1858 - 1945
Ingeborg Lapsien
1926 - 2014
Ulli Herzog
1938 - 2003
Solveig Müller
Born 1942
Doris Gallart
1936 - 2018
Gundula Petrovska
1943 - 2017
Klaus Behrendt
1920 - 2013
Beate Abraham
Born 1945
Dietrich Lehmann
Born 1940
Peter Musäus
Born 1939
Hannes Gromball
Born 1932
Walter Tarrach
1908 - 1965
Siegfried Voß
1940 - 2011
Gertraud Kreißig
1938 - 2011
Curt Elwenspoek
1884 - 1959
Johanna Buska
1847 - 1922
Wolfgang Borchert (Schauspieler)
1922 - 2007
Charlotte Schultz
1899 - 1946
Heinz G. Lück
1929 - 2017
Helene Fehdmer
1872 - 1939
Charlotte Böcklin
1900 - 1925
Annelise Matschulat
1923 - 2007
Adalbert Matkowsky
1857 - 1909
Alexander Flessburg (Schauspieler)
1883 - 1942
Heinz Voß (Schauspieler)
1922 - 2000
Richard Süssenguth
Born 1916
Hellmuth Passarge
Born 1894
Christa Oenicke
1934 - 2004
Adolf Retty
1821 - 1885
Otto Maurenbrecher
1872 - 1960
Kurt Bobeth Bolander
1896 - 1961
Bruno Harprecht
1875 - 1948
Karl Wilhelm Meixner
1818 - 1888
Heinz-Karl Konrad
Born 1920
Arthur Vollmer
1849 - 1927
Otto Bachmann (Schauspieler)
1799 - 1870
Eva Klein-Donath
1898 - 1960
Gustav Laddey
1796 - 1872
Emma Reichel
1857 - 1931
Walter Fein
1903 - 1973
Agnes Freund
1866 - 1908
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Hintz
1807 - 1874
Oskar Gimnig
1856 - 1920
Wilhelm Mauren
1870 - 1929
Nader Kranke
Born 1935
Johann Franz Krieger
1802 - 1842
Carl Blankenstein (Schauspieler, 1864)
1864 - 1933
Julius Witt
1835 - 1879
Hulda Emilie Klotz
1815 - 1900
Gustav Würst
1828 - 1889