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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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Karlsruhe during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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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.
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.
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Princess Marie Amelie of Baden
1817 - 1888
Charles Reutlinger
1816 - 1888
Karl Theodor Hartweg
1812 - 1871
Moritz August Seubert
1818 - 1878
Adolf Holtzmann
1810 - 1870
Albert Ellmenreich
1816 - 1905
Marie de Wurtemberg (1818-1888)
1818 - 1888
Luise Neumann
1818 - 1905
August Lamey
1816 - 1896
Amalie Kärcher
1819 - 1887
Rudolf von Freydorf
1819 - 1882
Friedrich Ehrenfeuchter
1814 - 1878
Jakob Hochstetter
1812 - 1880
Carl Holtzmann
1811 - 1865
Ernst Schweinfurth
1818 - 1877
Henriette Obermüller
1817 - 1893
Max Becker (Ingenieur)
1817 - 1884
Ludwig Waag
1812 - 1879
Hermann von Hillern
1817 - 1882
Louis Hoffmeister
1814 - 1869
Eduard Brauer (Dichter)
1811 - 1871
Ludwig Dill (Dichterjurist)
1812 - 1887
Carl Fröhlich
1813 - 1880
Leopold Dengler
1812 - 1866
Carl Friderich
1816 - 1894
Rudolph von Apponyi
1812 - 1876
Karl August Ludwig von La Chevallerie
1813 - 1884
Auguste Frühauf
1810 - 1852
Georg Wolf (Oberamtmann)
1817 - 1864
Karl Sachs (Amtmann)
1811 - 1873