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KIEL

Most Famous People Born in Kiel, Germany

Notable people

1,158

Peak decade

1900s

Median birth year

1925

Most distinctive

Soldier 13.1×

The roster carries the Imperial Navy in its bones: a Soldier bench at better than thirteen times the global baseline, rooted in the Kaiser's main Baltic base and the 1918 sailors' mutiny that kicked off the German Revolution. The Handball depth is the THW Kiel dynasty that still defines the city's sports identity, and the Economist and Art Historian signals come from the Christian-Albrechts university and its postwar Kiel Institute for the World Economy.