49.0159° N, 8.4031° E
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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Peter Sloterdijk
Born 1947
Gisela Bock
Born 1942
Jürgen Knieper
Born 1941
Lothar Baier
1942 - 2004
Carl Weissner
1940 - 2012
Gerhard Hennige
Born 1940
Klaus Uwe Benneter
Born 1947
Walter Mossmann
1941 - 2015
Herbert Joos
1940 - 2019
Zingraff
Born 1947
Henning von Gierke
Born 1947
Bernd Uhl
Born 1946
Bernd Längin
1941 - 2008
Detlev F. Neufert
Born 1948
Til Erwig
Born 1940
Samuel Heilman
Born 1946
Monika Frommel
Born 1946
Sontraud Speidel
Born 1944
Manfred Groh
Born 1948
Jürgen Morlok
Born 1945
Dieter Kuhn (Sinologe)
Born 1946
Volker Rittberger
1941 - 2011
Georg Feuser
Born 1941
Gerd Schön
Born 1948
Ulrich Barth
Born 1945
Bruno Hespeler
Born 1943
Kurt Kramer (Glockensachverständiger)
Born 1943
Günther Nonnenmacher
Born 1948
Uwe H. Schneider
Born 1941
Eckhart Gillen
Born 1947
Kristian Kühl
Born 1943
Peter Neumann (Kirchenmusiker)
Born 1940
Hartmut Horst
1941 - 2013
Klaus Luft
Born 1941
Hans Peter Henecka
Born 1941
Voré
Born 1941
Gerhard Härdle
Born 1941
Gunhild Kübler
Born 1944
Klaus Schroth
Born 1940
Jürgen Lehn
1941 - 2008
Karl-Heinz Deutsch
Born 1940
Walter Schwerdtfeger
Born 1949
Dieter Hager
1947 - 2009
Reinhart Kößler
Born 1949
Renate Damus
1940 - 1992
Horst Wild
Born 1943
Hans Richter (Schauspieler, 1943)
Born 1943
Peter Hohl
Born 1941
Rainer Wedler
Born 1942
Michael Hund
Born 1946
Rolf Sutter
Born 1944
Clemens Werner
Born 1946
Hans Benesch
Born 1946
Rosemarie Still
Born 1942
Wolfgang Speck
Born 1947
Klaus Reichert (Neurologe)
1948 - 2005
Rainer Griesbaum
Born 1948
Wilfried Heidt
1941 - 2012
Walther Erbacher
Born 1940
Hans Rogalla
1946 - 1986
Heinz-Volker Rausch
1940 - 1999
Hartmut Bühl
Born 1940
Gerhard Ochs
Born 1944
Ulrich Hochschild
Born 1949
Rainer Kölmel
Born 1947
Günter Fischer
Born 1941
Alexander Stillmark
Born 1941
Siegfried Kessler (Fußballspieler)
1941 - 2013
Doris Lott
Born 1940
Brigitte Gutmann
Born 1946
Bernd Sulzmann
1940 - 1999
Margit Fischbach
Born 1949
Bernd Sproedt
Born 1942
Gert-Hagen Seebach
Born 1943
Gerhard Stolz
Born 1946
Peter-Michael Riehm
1947 - 2007
Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann (Lehrer)
Born 1948
Frank-Ulrich Vögely
1949 - 2011
Renate Rastätter
Born 1947
Rudi Murmann
Born 1947
Hans-Peter Lamparth
Born 1946
Bruno Schulz (Medailleur)
Born 1940
Lilo Tadday
Born 1949