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KARLSRUHE

Most Famous People Born in Karlsruhe, Germany

Notable people
1,427
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1920
Most distinctive
Author 4.6×

A baroque grand-ducal city founded in 1715 around the fan-shaped palace of the Margraves of Baden-Durlach. Karlsruhe's distinctive professions are academic authors, chemists, engineers, judges, and architects — the trades of a Residenzstadt that grew into a 19th-century technical university town and never lost the official-document register. Karl Benz built the first automobile here in 1885, and Oliver Kahn and a deep column of other Bundesliga footballers came out of the local Karlsruher SC academy.

Through the Decades

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

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 165 notable births.

What Karlsruhe Is Known For

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Politician is Karlsruhe's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (136).

Karlsruhe over-indexes on author — 4.6× the global rate.

Karlsruhe under-produces singer — only 0.6× the global rate.

  1. Politician136
  2. Football98
  3. Actor69
  4. Painter63
  5. Author56
  6. Academic56
  7. Writer44
  8. Lawyer38
  1. Author564.6×
  2. Academic563.9×
  3. Chemist173.4×
  4. Judge233.4×
  5. Engineer232.6×
  6. Historian372.5×
  7. Architect312.5×
  8. Officer212.2×
  1. Singer170.6×
  2. Football980.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

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

160016501700175018001850190019502000
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  • Writing
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  • Art & Design
  • Film & TV
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0274 ACTOR

Amalie Haizinger

1800 - 1884

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0415 RABBI

Levi Bodenheimer

1807 - 1867

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0504 PHYSICIAN

Emil von Haber

1807 - 1882

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0541 ARCHITECT

Friedrich Theodor Fischer

1803 - 1867

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0609 ARCHITECT

Karl Joseph Berckmüller

1800 - 1879

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0783 LAWYER

August Marschall von Bieberstein

1804 - 1888

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0815 EDUCATION

Christian Hengst

1804 - 1883

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0817 WISSENSCHAFTLER

Wilhelm Obermüller

1809 - 1888

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0862 PAINTER

Gustav Nehrlich

1807 - 1840

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0924 FINANCIER

Ludwig von Haber von Linsberg

1804 - 1892

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0984 POLITICIAN

Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein (Politiker, 1806)

1806 - 1891

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1007 ADVOCATE

Rudolf Kusel

1809 - 1890

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1034 THEOLOGIAN

Karl Julius Holtzmann

1804 - 1877

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1044 JUDGE

Adolf Sander (Baden)

1801 - 1845

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1045 POLITICIAN

Edwin Benckiser

1809 - 1889

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1055 ARCHITECT

Ludwig Lendorff

1808 - 1853

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1090 POLITICIAN

Jakob Malsch

1809 - 1896

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1125 POLITICIAN

Friedrich Reiß (Politiker, 1802)

1802 - 1881

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1194 WRITER

Christoph Vorholz

1801 - 1865

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1283 BANK

Samuel Arthur von Haber

1808 - 1892

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1374 LAWYER

August Eichrodt

1800 - 1856

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1377 RABBI

Moses Reiß

1802 - 1878

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1385 ASSESSOR

Maximilian Waag

1804 - 1873

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1412 JUDGE

Adolf Schrickel

1805 - 1885

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1414 ACTOR

Louise Moltke

1808 - 1839

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