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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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  • Politics & Law
  • Writing
  • Sports
  • Art & Design
  • Film & TV
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Showing 38 of 1,427 notable people

0097 LAWYER

Rolf Bossi

1923 - 2015

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0211 LAWYER

Götz Schulze

1964 - 2018

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0407 LAWYER

Volker Rieble

Born 1961

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0414 LAWYER

Olav Gutting

Born 1970

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0480 LAWYER

Wilhelm Engler (Jurist)

1880 - 1958

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0546 LAWYER

Adolf Theis

1933 - 2013

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0624 LAWYER

Hermann Veit

1897 - 1973

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0632 LAWYER

Gerhard Härdle

Born 1941

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0633 LAWYER

Charles Silent

1842 - 1918

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0681 LAWYER

Klaus Schroth

Born 1940

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0703 LAWYER

Winfried Brohm

1932 - 2012

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0727 LAWYER

Oliver Klein

Born 1973

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0779 LAWYER

Gerhard Caemmerer

1905 - 1961

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0783 LAWYER

August Marschall von Bieberstein

1804 - 1888

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0795 LAWYER

Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern

1668 - 1727

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0822 LAWYER

Otto zu Rantzau

1888 - 1946

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0848 LAWYER

Anton Josef Beck

1857 - 1922

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0928 LAWYER

Hermann von Hillern

1817 - 1882

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0950 LAWYER

Ludwig Seiterich

1904 - 1979

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1029 LAWYER

Hermann Kiefer

1867 - 1946

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1126 LAWYER

Johann Carl Müller

1766 - 1834

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1131 LAWYER

Karl von Stößer

1792 - 1874

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1149 LAWYER

Christiana Fountoulakis

Born 1977

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1163 LAWYER

Karl von Grimm

1830 - 1898

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1183 LAWYER

Eugen von Regenauer

1824 - 1897

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1215 LAWYER

Max Boeckh

1843 - 1913

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1227 LAWYER

Götz Lingenthal

Born 1953

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1258 LAWYER

Michael Odenwald

Born 1958

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1315 LAWYER

Karl Asal

1859 - 1929

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1351 LAWYER

Adolf Föhrenbach

1845 - 1928

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1358 LAWYER

Wilhelm Holtzmann

1847 - 1914

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1367 LAWYER

Julius Lacher

1845 - 1919

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1371 LAWYER

Carl Baumgärtner

1790 - 1847

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1374 LAWYER

August Eichrodt

1800 - 1856

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1378 LAWYER

Eduard Erxleben

1834 - 1890

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1399 LAWYER

Carl Friedrich von Fischer

1783 - 1860

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1404 LAWYER

August Hofmann (Jurist)

1865 - 1930

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1426 LAWYER

Karl Sachs (Amtmann)

1811 - 1873

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