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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

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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.

  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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0010 POLITICIAN

Gustav Landauer

1870 - 1919

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0013 CHEMIST

Richard Willstätter

1872 - 1942

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0021 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Eugen Fischer

1874 - 1967

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0029 PAINTER

Karl Hofer

1878 - 1955

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0084 SCULPTOR

Adolph Alexander Weinman

1870 - 1952

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0116 POET

Alfred Mombert

1872 - 1942

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0119 POLITICIAN

Heinrich Köhler

1878 - 1949

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0129 WORLD WAR

Maximilian Bayer

1872 - 1917

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0132 PAINTER

Max Frey

1874 - 1944

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0184 AUTHOR

Erwin Carlé

1876 - 1923

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0203 PROFESSOR

Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy

1874 - 1936

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0247 HISTORIAN

Karl Helm

1871 - 1960

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0255 COMPOSER

Clara Mathilda Faisst

1872 - 1948

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0269 SON

Adolf Daimler

1871 - 1913

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0320 PHOTOGRAPHER

Alfred Krauth

1878 - 1956

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0353 ENGINEER

Adolf Ludin

1879 - 1968

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0387 SINGER

Minnie Nast

1874 - 1956

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0429 PAINTER

Dora Horn-Zippelius

1876 - 1967

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0439 ECONOMIST

Paul Mombert

1876 - 1938

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0462 ACTOR

Hans Ziegler (Schauspieler)

1879 - 1961

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0520 WRITER

Friedrich Alfred Schmid Noerr

1877 - 1969

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0613 POLITICIAN

Friedrich Wilhelm von Willisen

1876 - 1933

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0635 DIPLOMAT

Friedrich Graf von Rhena

1877 - 1908

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0636 PAINTER

Else Blankenhorn

1873 - 1920

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0652 ENTREPRENEUR

Karl Grosse (Ingenieur)

1873 - 1963

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0670 OFFICER

Erich Blankenhorn

1878 - 1963

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0671 THEOLOGE

Franz Keller (Theologe)

1873 - 1944

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0748 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Hermann Finke

1877 - 1947

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0766 POLITICIAN

Wilhelm Kolb

1870 - 1918

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0855 HISTORIAN

Sigmund Seeligmann

1873 - 1940

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0889 ENGINEER

Friedrich Schwerd

1872 - 1953

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0912 INTERNIST

Hans Arnsperger

1872 - 1955

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0935 ACTOR

Julius Geisendörfer

1878 - 1953

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0944 COMPOSER

Fritz Neff

1873 - 1904

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0969 PAINTER

Leopold Durm

1878 - 1918

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0986 ARTIST

Emil Zettler

1878 - 1946

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0991 PAINTER

Emma Goitein Dessau

1877 - 1968

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0992 PALAEONTOLOGIST

Carl Renz

1876 - 1951

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0996 PHILOSOPHER

Walther Arnsperger

1871 - 1902

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1008 ARCHITECT

Manfred Faber

1879 - 1944

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1028 AUTHOR

Friedrich Ludin

1875 - 1941

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1037 ART HISTORIAN

Hermann Schweitzer

1871 - 1933

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1057 OPERA

Hermann Wilhelm Weil

1876 - 1949

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1061 OPERA

Rudolf Moest

1872 - 1919

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1065 ACTOR

Josef Dischner

1872 - 1949

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1099 SURGEON

Ludwig Arnsperger (Chirurg)

1877 - 1970

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1101 AUTHOR

Leopold Oelenheinz

1871 - 1937

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1112 HISTORIAN

Karl Linnebach

1879 - 1961

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1116 AUTHOR

Klara Philipp

1877 - 1949

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1120 POLITICIAN

Fritz Travers

1874 - 1929

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1174 CHEMIST

Wilhelm Wielandt

1870 - 1964

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1190 ARCHITECT

Albert Lehr

1874 - 1960

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1198 LYRIKER

Johanna Wollf-Friedberg

Born 1878

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1211 CHEMIST

Gerhard Just (Chemiker)

1877 - 1944

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1239 MERCHANT

Leopold Kölsch

1870 - 1922

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1257 JUDGE

Karl Schneider (Jurist, 1870)

1870 - 1941

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1262 JAPANOLOGIST

Friedrich Max Trautz

1877 - 1952

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1281 MINISTER

Friedrich Stockinger (Politiker, 1878)

1878 - 1937

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1335 POLITICIAN

Josef Heinrich

1879 - 1955

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1391 MANAGER

Franz Hepp

1878 - 1956

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1397 OFFICER

Maximilian von Bodman

1873 - 1953

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1398 LANDRAT

Alfred Tritscheler

1870 - 1935

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1401 SCULPTOR

August Meyerhuber

1879 - 1963

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1427 SCULPTOR

Josef Anton Schmid

1873 - 1933

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