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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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  • Politics & Law
  • Writing
  • Sports
  • Art & Design
  • Film & TV
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0060 ARISTOCRAT

Princess Marie Amelie of Baden

1817 - 1888

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0152 PHOTOGRAPHER

Charles Reutlinger

1816 - 1888

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0161 BOTANIST

Karl Theodor Hartweg

1812 - 1871

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0162 BOTANIST

Moritz August Seubert

1818 - 1878

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0168 GERMANIST

Adolf Holtzmann

1810 - 1870

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0182 AUTHOR

Albert Ellmenreich

1816 - 1905

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0300 ARISTOCRAT

Marie de Wurtemberg (1818-1888)

1818 - 1888

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0358 ACTOR

Luise Neumann

1818 - 1905

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0361 POLITICIAN

August Lamey

1816 - 1896

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0445 PAINTER

Amalie Kärcher

1819 - 1887

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0454 POLITICIAN

Rudolf von Freydorf

1819 - 1882

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0457 THEOLOGIAN

Friedrich Ehrenfeuchter

1814 - 1878

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0458 ARCHITECT

Jakob Hochstetter

1812 - 1880

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0502 PHYSICIST

Carl Holtzmann

1811 - 1865

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0528 PAINTER

Ernst Schweinfurth

1818 - 1877

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0534 REVOLUTION

Henriette Obermüller

1817 - 1893

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0849 ENGINEER

Max Becker (Ingenieur)

1817 - 1884

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0867 LEUTNANT

Ludwig Waag

1812 - 1879

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0928 LAWYER

Hermann von Hillern

1817 - 1882

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1064 ENGRAVER

Louis Hoffmeister

1814 - 1869

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1087 WRITER

Eduard Brauer (Dichter)

1811 - 1871

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1115 WRITER

Ludwig Dill (Dichterjurist)

1812 - 1887

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1139 POLITICIAN

Carl Fröhlich

1813 - 1880

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1156 ACADEMIC

Leopold Dengler

1812 - 1866

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1179 POLITICIAN

Carl Friderich

1816 - 1894

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1321 DIPLOMAT

Rudolph von Apponyi

1812 - 1876

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1337 OFFICER

Karl August Ludwig von La Chevallerie

1813 - 1884

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1375 ACTOR

Auguste Frühauf

1810 - 1852

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1406 BEAMTE

Georg Wolf (Oberamtmann)

1817 - 1864

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1426 LAWYER

Karl Sachs (Amtmann)

1811 - 1873

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