50.3593° N, 7.5971° E
KOBLENZ
Most Famous People Born in Koblenz, Germany
- Notable people
- 611
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1911
- Most distinctive
- Education 8.9×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Koblenz during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Koblenz Is Known For
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Politician is Koblenz's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (90).
Koblenz over-indexes on education — 8.9× the global rate.
Koblenz under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Koblenz's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Science
- Art & Design
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Other
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
1926 - 2020
Klemens von Metternich
1773 - 1859
Max von Laue
1879 - 1960
Johannes Peter Müller
1801 - 1858
Bodo Illgner
Born 1967
Joseph Görres
1776 - 1848
Anton Diffring
1918 - 1989
Gus Kahn
1886 - 1941
Michel Auclair
1922 - 1988
Rudi Gutendorf
1926 - 2019
Friedrich von Gärtner
1791 - 1847
Karl Friedrich Mohr
1806 - 1879
Henriette Sontag
1806 - 1854
Fritz von Unruh
1885 - 1970
Nicola Perscheid
1864 - 1930
Julia Drusilla
18 - 38
Rosemarie Fendel
1927 - 2013
Hermann von Kuhl
1856 - 1958
Adolf von Trotha
1868 - 1940
Walter Ernsting
1920 - 2005
Peter Ludwig
1925 - 1996
Odon Casel
1886 - 1948
Rudolf Spanner
1895 - 1960
Albrecht von Stosch
1818 - 1896
Hermann Schaaffhausen
1816 - 1893
Peter Joppich
Born 1982
Hans Zassenhaus
1912 - 1991
Peter Josef von Lindpaintner
1791 - 1856
Alexander Zick
1845 - 1907
Max Cetto
1903 - 1980
Otto Falckenberg
1873 - 1947
Martin Stadtfeld
Born 1980
Josef Swickard
1866 - 1940
August Reichensperger
1808 - 1895
Rüdiger Lautmann
Born 1935
Philipp Krementz
1819 - 1899
Roger Faulques
1924 - 2011
Schmidt (singer)
Born 1990
Karl-Heinz Ohlig
Born 1938
Peter Joseph Osterhaus
1823 - 1917
Friedrich Wilhelm Carové
1789 - 1852
Marko Djurdjević
Born 1979
Kristin Silbereisen
Born 1985
Franz Hünten
1792 - 1878
Jürgen Zäck
Born 1965
Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim
1707 - 1774
Hartmann Grisar
1845 - 1932
Karl Peters (jurist)
1904 - 1998
Peter Ernst von Lasaulx
1805 - 1861
Franz Jakob Clemens
1815 - 1862
Peter Reichensperger
1810 - 1892
Clément Moreau
1903 - 1988
Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg
1622 - 1679
Hermann Anschütz
1802 - 1880
Hans Kirschstein
1896 - 1918
Georg Saal
1817 - 1870
Lucas Luhr
Born 1979
Martin Sinner
Born 1968
Alice Hoffmann
Born 1951
Charles Swickard
1861 - 1929
Karl Adam (footballer)
1924 - 1999
Theodor von Guérard
1863 - 1943
Johann Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg
1760 - 1812
Guido Görres
1805 - 1852
Michael Fuchs
Born 1949
Franz Georg Karl von Metternich
1746 - 1818
Philip Francis, Prince of Leyen
1766 - 1829
Uwe Koschinat
Born 1971
Markus Hilgert
Born 1969
Otto Antoine
1865 - 1951
Dennis Bauer
Born 1980
Johann Heinrich Richter
1803 - 1845
Henrik Kalteisen
Died 1464
Joseph Anton Settegast
1813 - 1890
John William Gerard de Brahm
1717 - 1799
Frank Hartmann (footballer, born September 1960)
Born 1960
Marcus Steinweg
Born 1971
Klaus M. Schmidt
Born 1961
Tobias Lütke
Born 1981
Lars Bender (footballer, born 1988)
Born 1988
Peter Hidien
Born 1953
Klaus Brockhoff
Born 1939
Elisabeth Lennartz
1902 - 2001
Herbert Buhtz
1911 - 2006
Josef Winkler (politician)
Born 1974
Günther Binding
Born 1936
Hans-Peter Raddatz
Born 1941
Caroline Jaubert
1803 - 1882
Cathinka Buchwieser
1789 - 1828
Hermann Giefer
Born 1947
Jacqueline Diffring
1920 - 2020
Markus Kneip
Born 1956
Andrea Thomas (German athlete)
Born 1963
Johann Claudius von Lassaulx
1781 - 1848
Ernst Dronke
1822 - 1891
Johann Nepomuk Hubert von Schwerz
1759 - 1844
Horst von der Goltz
Born 1884
Count Ludwig Joseph von Boos-Waldeck
1798 - 1880
Marcel Rosenbach
Born 1972
Johannes Tautz
1914 - 2008
Johann Christian von Stramberg
1785 - 1868
Rudi Felgenheier
1930 - 2005
Hans Herter
1899 - 1984
Klaus Weinand
Born 1940
Jürgen von Manger
1923 - 1994
Fabian Stumm
Born 1981
Rolf Sackenheim
1921 - 2006
Elmar Lampson
Born 1952
Karl-Otto Stöhr
Born 1942
Heinrich Hartung III
1851 - 1919
Karl-Heinz Göttert
Born 1943
Jörg Bach
Born 1965
Toni van Eyck
1910 - 1988
Horst Hano
Born 1937
Theodor von der Goltz
1836 - 1905
Willi Köchling
1924 - 2009
Joseph Dahlmann
1861 - 1930
Hermann Stegemann (Journalist)
1870 - 1945
Björn Bicker
Born 1972
Stefan Dott
Born 1969
Georg Ahrens (Bildhauer)
Born 1947
Herbert Gauls
1930 - 2017
Jan Choinski
Born 1996
Dieter Paucken
Born 1982
Emmanuel Deutz
1763 - 1842
Hugo Zieger
1864 - 1932
Hans-Joachim Hanisch
Born 1928
Johann Georg Müller (évêque)
1798 - 1870
Egon von Neindorff
1892 - 1944
Simon Deutz
1802 - 1844
Jens Tiedtke
1979 - 2019
Friedrich Erxleben
1883 - 1955
Patrice Brun (archaeologist)
Born 1951
Hans-Wolfgang Heidland
1912 - 1992
Herm Dienz
1891 - 1980
August von Druffel
1841 - 1891
Amalie von Lasaulx
1815 - 1872
Karl-Heinz Best
Born 1943
Tristan Seith
Born 1979
Johann Aloys Josef Freiherr von Hügel
1753 - 1826
Heinz-Edgar Berres
1920 - 1943
Eva Maria Enders
Born 1963
Gereon Otto von Gutmann zu Sobernheim
1571 - 1638
Johann Nikolaus Nebel
1752 - 1828
Rudolf von Caemmerer
1845 - 1911
Andreas Kraniotakes
Born 1981
Katja Gloger
Born 1960
Hans Nachtsheim
1890 - 1979
William Hexamer
1825 - 1870
Jens Schoor
Born 1987
Franz Pfeffer
Born 1926
Marina Himmighofen
Born 1984
Andreas Nick (Politiker)
Born 1967
André Dietz
Born 1975
Jürgen Rißmann
Born 1963
Jürgen Paul Schwindt
Born 1961
Lotte Möller
1893 - 1973
Andreas Grimm
Born 1962
Ewald Hammes
Born 1950
Erich von Neindorff
1894 - 1993
Heinrich von Rübenach
1420 - 1493
Florian Schwarz (Regisseur)
Born 1974
Hermann Maron
1820 - 1882
Lulo Reinhardt
Born 1961
Filippa Sayn-Wittgenstein
1980 - 2001
Kurt Lehmann (Bildhauer)
1905 - 2000
Stefan Roehnert
Born 1977
Max Jacoby
1919 - 2009
Milo Emil Halbheer
1910 - 1978
Claudia Kleinert
Born 1969
Jürgen Hillesheim
Born 1961
Nora Balling
Born 1964
Tobi Baumann
Born 1974
Peter Joseph Molitor
1821 - 1898
Dieter Nüssing
Born 1949
Mark Bellinghaus
Born 1963
Volker Kefer
Born 1956
Carl Mand
1811 - 1892
Andreas Maurer (Politikwissenschaftler)
Born 1965
Willi Hörter
1930 - 1996
Jakob Schwarzkopf
1926 - 2001
Tobias Kassung
Born 1977
Richard Koll
1897 - 1963
Norbert Gatzweiler
Born 1942
Ferdinand Paul Wirtgen
1848 - 1924
Peter Hasslacher
1810 - 1876
Johanna Franul von Weißenthurn
1773 - 1847
Bartholomäus von Werner
1842 - 1924
Simon Meister
1796 - 1844
Ottilie von Hansemann
1840 - 1919
Paul Wentzcke
1879 - 1960
Adolf Dronke
1837 - 1898
Detlev Pilger
Born 1955
Miloš Vuković
Born 1981
Heribert Schmitz (Theologe, 1929)
1929 - 2018
Johannes Kalpers
Born 1966
Reinhard Hauschild
1921 - 2005
Karl Anschütz
1813 - 1870
Dorothea Sattler
Born 1961
Peter Klöckner
1863 - 1940
Karl-Heinz Gerdesmann
1921 - 1991
Jacques Antoine (éditeur)
1928 - 1995
Alexander Halm
1840 - 1913
Franz Karl von der Leyen
1736 - 1775
Raymond Kintziger
1922 - 2010
Fred Metzler
1929 - 2010
Christiane Theobald
Born 1956
Tom Viehöfer
Born 1978
Susanne Hermans
1919 - 2013
Richard Scheid
1876 - 1962
Karl Schaifers
1921 - 2009
Michael Adams (Wirtschaftsjurist)
Born 1947
Inge Kroppenberg
Born 1968
Eduard Picker
Born 1940
Haakon Stein
Born 1940
Dieter Schneider
Born 1959
Harry Harun Behr
Born 1962
Klaus Martin Girardet
Born 1940
Joseph von Hommer
1760 - 1836
Florian Mausbach
Born 1944
Manfred Becker-Huberti
Born 1945
Ralph Erbar
Born 1960
Edwin Maria Landau
1904 - 2001
Raymond Alessandrini
Born 1948
Michael Reufsteck
Born 1975
Julius Wegeler
1836 - 1913
Jean Willrich
Born 1953
David Langner
Born 1975
Harald Siebenmorgen
1949 - 2020
Heidi Rehn
Born 1966
Dietmar Klein
Born 1956
Otto Griebling
1896 - 1972
Rainer Schmitt
Born 1948
Joseph Pohle
1852 - 1922
Hubertus Seibert
Born 1954
Dirk Heißerer
Born 1957
Johannes Flöck
Born 1968
Ralf Günther (Produzent)
Born 1962
Heinrich Schwarzkopf
1912 - 1998
Jan Bollinger
Born 1977
Kristina Karst
Born 1982
Max Joseph Becker
1828 - 1896
Helmut Schnatz
Born 1933
Céline Bethmann
Born 1998
Eduard Puggé
1802 - 1836
Elisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum
1911 - 1992
Franz Georg Joseph von Lassaulx
1781 - 1818
Dirko Juchem
Born 1963
Helmut Schneider (Betriebswirtschaftler)
Born 1966
Ferdinand Wittmann
1836 - 1868
August Gustav Lasinsky
1811 - 1870
Christoph Steinebach
Born 1959
Helga Henselder-Barzel
1940 - 1995
Martin Krauß
Born 1964
Ana Veloso
Born 1964
Wolfgang Nentwig
Born 1953
Guido Heinen
Born 1966
Johann Baptist Berger
1806 - 1888
Johann Heinrich von Dünewald
1617 - 1691
Karl Haniel
1877 - 1944
Giorgina Kazungu-Haß
Born 1978
Clemens Graf von Looz-Corswarem
Born 1947
Kerstin Kohlenberg
Born 1970
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler
1852 - 1913
Volker Großkopf
Born 1961
Hans Georg Fassbender
1920 - 2015
Curt Steinberg
1880 - 1960
Adolf Theobald
1930 - 2014
Til Klokow
1908 - 1970
Hanna Barth
1911 - 1961
Max von Stockhausen
1890 - 1971
Bernd W. Klöckner
Born 1966
Johann Wilhelm Gerlach
Born 1938
Karl-Heinz Wever
Born 1918
Herbert E. Colla
1941 - 2017
Joseph Gregor Lang
1755 - 1834
Wilhelm Stöck
1922 - 1997
Hermann Nebel
1816 - 1893
Jürgen Riester
1941 - 2019
Hermann Gerstmayer
1886 - 1961
August Reichensperger (Zoologe)
1878 - 1962
Wilhelm Arnold Günther
1763 - 1843
Franz Reisinger (Mediziner)
1787 - 1855
Horst Gies (Historiker)
Born 1938
Edith Peres-Lethmate
1927 - 2017
Sebastian Georg Schäffer
1828 - 1901
Aliute Mecys
1943 - 2013
Günter Krampen
Born 1950
Horst Franke (Rechtsanwalt)
Born 1949
Gianni Vitiello
1973 - 2009
Peter Frensch
Born 1956
Heinz Peter Volkert
1933 - 2013
Jörn Müller (Philosoph)
Born 1969
Ingo Pini
Born 1936
Thomas W. Vahlenkamp
Born 1963
Wilhelm Hack
1900 - 1985
Drutmar Cremer
Born 1930
Clément-Édouard de Moustier
1779 - 1830
Klaus Escher
Born 1965
Marty Krug
1888 - 1966