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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.

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0017 QUEEN

Victoria of Baden

1862 - 1930

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0082 PAINTER

Heinrich Kley

1863 - 1945

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0098 PHYSICIST

Otto Wiener (physicist)

1862 - 1927

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0104 COMPOSER

Friedrich Klose

1862 - 1942

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0105 ARCHITECT

Hermann Billing

1867 - 1946

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0136 AUTHOR

Elisabeth von Heyking

1861 - 1925

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0153 INVENTOR

Paul Daimler

1869 - 1945

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0235 BOTANIST

Ludwig Jost

1865 - 1947

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0292 JOURNALIST

Josef Ettlinger

1869 - 1912

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0303 PAINTER

Adolf Des Coudres

1862 - 1924

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0333 HISTORIAN

Hans Hausrath

1866 - 1945

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0341 HISTORIAN

Karl Obser

1860 - 1944

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0343 ACADEMIC

Leopold Karl Goetz

1868 - 1931

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0482 ILLUSTRATOR

Ernst Platz

1867 - 1940

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0487 PHOTOGRAPHER

Erwin Raupp

1863 - 1931

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0558 HOUSEWIFE

Clara Rosenthal

1863 - 1941

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0649 WRITER

Max Metzger (Lehrer)

1866 - 1941

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0669 POLITICIAN

Adolf Steinmetz

1868 - 1919

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0685 PAINTER

Hermann Moest

1868 - 1945

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0690 ACADEMIC

Friedrich Ratzel (Architekt)

1869 - 1907

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0712 BADEN

Marie Luise Marschall von Bieberstein

1862 - 1949

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0714 OFFICER

Rudolf Bleidorn

1864 - 1937

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0719 ENGINEER

Alexander Cassinone

1866 - 1931

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0742 PAINTER

Clara Grosch

1863 - 1932

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0743 PSYCHIATRIST

Gustav Wolff (Psychiater)

1865 - 1941

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0745 TEACHER

August Hausrath

1865 - 1944

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0757 COUNT

Vasily Alexandrovich Dolgorukov

1868 - 1918

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0776 POLITICIAN

Hermann Levinger

1865 - 1944

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0816 JUDGE

Eduard Dietz

1866 - 1940

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0887 SINGER

Adolf Bassermann

1866 - 1943

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0890 PAINTER

Hermann Baumeister (Maler)

1867 - 1944

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0938 LIBRARIAN

Theodor Längin

1867 - 1947

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0994 PAINTER

Frida Hoeck Rusti

1861 - 1963

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1029 LAWYER

Hermann Kiefer

1867 - 1946

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1056 ACADEMIC

Rudolf Camerer (Ingenieur)

1869 - 1921

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1148 ECOLOGIST

Carl Gebhard

1861 - 1903

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1177 SINGER

Wilhelm Ulrici

1868 - 1915

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1206 ACTOR

Friedrich Moest (Schauspieler)

1866 - 1948

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1219 PLAYWRIGHT

Moritz Wormser

1867 - 1940

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1327 SINGER

Wilhelm Beyer (Sänger, 1865)

1865 - 1904

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1404 LAWYER

August Hofmann (Jurist)

1865 - 1930

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1408 GEHEIMRAT

Albert Kapferer

1868 - 1918

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1416 ILLUSTRATOR

Carl Becker (Militärmaler)

1862 - 1935

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