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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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Marie Luise Kaschnitz
1901 - 1974
Matthias Politycki
Born 1955
Lothar Baier
1942 - 2004
Wolfram Fleischhauer
Born 1961
Katharina Hagena
Born 1967
Carl Weissner
1940 - 2012
Emil Frommel
1828 - 1896
Ulrich Chaussy
Born 1952
Rainer Maria Gerhardt
1927 - 1954
Ina Praetorius
Born 1956
Wolfgang Joho
1908 - 1991
Detlev F. Neufert
Born 1948
Günter Dietz
1930 - 2017
Irina Wittmer
Born 1953
Jochen Wegner
Born 1969
Friedrich Alfred Schmid Noerr
1877 - 1969
Oskar Höcker (Schauspieler, 1892)
1892 - 1959
Harald Wessbecher
1954 - 2015
Theodor Haas (Philatelist)
1848 - 1911
Max Metzger (Lehrer)
1866 - 1941
Karl Willy Straub
1880 - 1971
Hans Haas (Mykologe)
1904 - 2003
Friedbert Gay
Born 1956
Harald von Koenigswald
1906 - 1971
Klaus Bernhard Gablenz
Born 1967
Katrin Seebacher
1966 - 1997
David Depenau
Born 1970
Ferdinand von Biedenfeld
1788 - 1862
Andrea Bottlinger
Born 1985
Gisela Osterhold
1950 - 2017
Stan Lafleur
Born 1968
Elisabeth von Baden-Durlach
1620 - 1692
Step Laube
Born 1970
Gerhard Ochs
Born 1944
Eberhard Raetz
Born 1938
Eugen von Jagemann
1849 - 1926
Doris Lott
Born 1940
Eduard Brauer (Dichter)
1811 - 1871
Ludwig Dill (Dichterjurist)
1812 - 1887
Karl Friedrich Viktor Jägerschmid
1774 - 1863
Christoph Vorholz
1801 - 1865
Johannes Paul Scherer
1957 - 2003
Elisabeth Joest
1893 - 1927
Marianne Zink
1926 - 2018