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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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Showing 63 of 1,427 notable people

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Karl Hofer

1878 - 1955

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Alexander Kanoldt

1881 - 1939

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Ferdinand Keller (painter)

1842 - 1922

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Heinrich Kley

1863 - 1945

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Max Frey

1874 - 1944

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Hanns Katz

1882 - 1940

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Henning von Gierke

Born 1947

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Albert Lang

1847 - 1933

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Adolf Des Coudres

1862 - 1924

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Ursula Laquay-Ihm

Born 1932

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Adolf Dell

1890 - 1977

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Wilhelm Frey (Maler)

1826 - 1911

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Hans Baschang

1937 - 2017

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Dora Horn-Zippelius

1876 - 1967

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Amalie Kärcher

1819 - 1887

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Wilhelm Volz (Künstler)

1855 - 1901

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Alfredo Bortoluzzi

1905 - 1995

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Jürgen Wittdorf

1932 - 2018

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Peter Chevalier

Born 1953

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Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann

1899 - 1982

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Ernst Schweinfurth

1818 - 1877

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Felix Martin Furtwängler

Born 1954

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Axel Heil

Born 1965

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Karl Ludwig Kaaz

1773 - 1810

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Karl Weysser

1833 - 1904

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Else Blankenhorn

1873 - 1920

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Willi Müller-Hufschmid

1890 - 1966

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Katharina Büche

Born 1963

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Friedhelm Weick

1936 - 2017

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Hermann Moest

1868 - 1945

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Nicolas Dieterlé

1963 - 2000

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Oswald Poetzelberger

1893 - 1966

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Clara Grosch

1863 - 1932

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Oskar Fischer (Maler)

1892 - 1955

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Hans Brasch (Maler)

1882 - 1973

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Hermann Eichfeld

1845 - 1917

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Hans Benesch

Born 1946

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Gustav Nehrlich

1807 - 1840

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Wilhelm Klose

1830 - 1914

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Paul Dahlen

1881 - 1954

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Hermann Baumeister (Maler)

1867 - 1944

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Ottohans Beier

1892 - 1979

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Philipp Heinrich Kisling

1713 - 1767

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Hans Rogalla

1946 - 1986

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Leopold Durm

1878 - 1918

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Emma Goitein Dessau

1877 - 1968

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Frida Hoeck Rusti

1861 - 1963

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Ludwig Dittweiler

1844 - 1891

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Karl Ludwig Friedrich Wagner

1839 - 1923

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Philipp Herrmann

1899 - 1968

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Erich Buschle

1901 - 1991

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Conrad Sutter

1856 - 1927

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Hermann Sehrig

1892 - 1963

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Johannes Gervé

Born 1965

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Jörg Schreyögg

1914 - 1997

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Alfred Friedrich Siekiersky

1911 - 1991

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Julius Kaspar (Maler)

1888 - 1922

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Eva Moll

Born 1975

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Stefan Hoenerloh

Born 1960

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Wilhelm Reuter (Maler, 1859)

1859 - 1937

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Eugen Daub

Born 1939

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Artur Graf

1911 - 1989

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Jan Steigert

Born 1968

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