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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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- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Walther von Reichenau
1884 - 1942
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
1889 - 1957
Otto Bartning
1883 - 1959
Ludwig Hilberseimer
1885 - 1967
Alexander Kanoldt
1881 - 1939
Gottfried Fuchs
1889 - 1972
Otto Wagener
1888 - 1971
Alastair (Baron Hans Henning Voigt)
1887 - 1969
Fritz Förderer
1888 - 1952
Winold Reiss
1886 - 1953
Max Trautz
1880 - 1960
Max Breunig
1888 - 1961
Wilhelm Valentiner
1880 - 1958
Leopold Ziegler
1881 - 1958
Richard Fuchs
1887 - 1947
Hanns Katz
1882 - 1940
Emil Oberle
1889 - 1955
Rahel Straus
1880 - 1963
Karl Elzer
1881 - 1938
Otto Weinreich
1886 - 1972
Achim von Arnim (Rektor)
1881 - 1940
Carl Lautenschläger
1888 - 1962
Willy Andreas
1884 - 1967
Wilhelm Lorenz (astronome)
1886 - 1918
Karl Wegele
1887 - 1960
Ernst Hollstein
1886 - 1950
Otto Gmelin
1886 - 1940
Robert Neumaier
1885 - 1959
Richard Sexau
1882 - 1962
Karl-Friedrich Schweickhard
1883 - 1968
Karl Ziegler (tenor)
1886 - 1944
Wilhelm Engler (Jurist)
1880 - 1958
Raphael Straus
1887 - 1947
Rudolf Meerwarth
1883 - 1946
Margarete Schweikert
1887 - 1957
Rudolf Kircher
1885 - 1954
Karl Willy Straub
1880 - 1971
Gustav Stoffleth
1881 - 1954
Hans Brasch (Maler)
1882 - 1973
Otto zu Rantzau
1888 - 1946
Karl Hummel (Geologe)
1889 - 1945
Alfred Schmidt (Bürgermeister)
1880 - 1956
Max Bräuner
1882 - 1966
Siegfried Gräff
1887 - 1966
Paul Dahlen
1881 - 1954
Gisbert von Teuffel
1881 - 1970
Otto Homburger
1885 - 1964
Magdalena Neff
1881 - 1966
Leopold Rückert
1881 - 1942
Alfred Schühly
1889 - 1977
Willi Münch-Khe
1885 - 1960
Fritz Blankenhorn (Sänger)
1889 - 1954
Hermann Franz (Ministerialdirektor)
1885 - 1957
Erich Straub
1885 - 1945
Walter Seiz
1885 - 1966
Heinrich Berggötz
1889 - 1973
Rudolf Binz
1887 - 1945
Ernst Kundt (Diplomat)
1883 - 1974
Mary Zimmermann
1889 - 1945
Julius Kaspar (Maler)
1888 - 1922
Dora Willgerodt-Brünner
1887 - 1983
Walther Koransky
1889 - 1963
Oskar Ulmer
1883 - 1966
August Kratt
1882 - 1969
Arthur Beier
1880 - 1917
Ferdinand Bausback
1884 - 1948
Karl Schörlin
1882 - 1955
Mine Härdle
1888 - 1967