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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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0068 MONARCH

Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden

1857 - 1928

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0086 OFFICER

Berthold von Deimling

1853 - 1944

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0122 OFFICER

Alois Schönburg-Hartenstein

1858 - 1944

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0128 LINGUIST

Otto Behaghel

1854 - 1936

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0202 MISSIONARY

Ludwig R. Conradi

1856 - 1939

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0210 PHILOLOGIST

Friedrich Bechtel

1855 - 1924

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0283 ZOOLOGIST

Friedrich Blochmann

1858 - 1931

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0328 CHEMIST

Karl Seubert

1851 - 1942

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0364 POLITICIAN

Franz Lipp

1855 - 1937

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0371 ZOOLOGIST

Otto Nüsslin

1850 - 1915

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0386 BOTANIST

Hans von Türckheim

1853 - 1920

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0391 GEOLOGIST

Franz Beyschlag

1856 - 1935

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0440 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Ludwig Wilser

1850 - 1923

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0459 PAINTER

Wilhelm Volz (Künstler)

1855 - 1901

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0540 POLITICIAN

Karl von Savigny

1855 - 1928

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0542 MATHEMATICIAN

Hermann Wiener

1857 - 1939

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0645 PHYSICIAN

Karl Turban

1856 - 1935

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0687 ARCHITECT

Julius Graebner

1858 - 1917

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0848 LAWYER

Anton Josef Beck

1857 - 1922

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0901 PARSON

Carl Eichhorn (Pfarrer, 1855)

1855 - 1934

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0922 ARCHITECT

Franz Baer

1850 - 1891

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0931 BANK

Julius Hauser

1854 - 1920

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0964 ARCHITECT

Rudolf Burckhardt (Baumeister)

1851 - 1914

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1038 PAINTER

Conrad Sutter

1856 - 1927

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1048 POLITICIAN

Alexander von Dusch (Politiker, 1851)

1851 - 1923

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1050 MATHEMATICIAN

Moritz Schröter (Maschinenbauingenieur, 1851) –

1851 - 1925

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1130 POLITICIAN

Gustav Altfelix

1859 - 1934

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1169 GEHEIMRAT

Heinrich Cron (Oberamtmann)

1858 - 1940

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1225 MINISTER

Moritz Seubert (Oberamtmann)

1852 - 1905

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1235 PHYSICIAN

Wilhelm Hack (Mediziner)

1851 - 1887

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1287 PAINTER

Wilhelm Reuter (Maler, 1859)

1859 - 1937

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1314 ENGINEER

Karl Rümmele

1859 - 1942

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1315 LAWYER

Karl Asal

1859 - 1929

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1324 OFFICER

Emil Nagel

1853 - 1933

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1393 ARCHITECT

Hugo Slevogt

1858 - 1927

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