51.3344° N, 6.5727° E
KREFELD
Most Famous People Born in Krefeld, Germany
- Notable people
- 606
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1930
- Most distinctive
- Art Historian 5.2×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Krefeld during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Krefeld Is Known For
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Politician is Krefeld's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (69).
Krefeld over-indexes on art historian — 5.2× the global rate.
Krefeld under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Krefeld's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Art & Design
- Sports
- Science
- Film & TV
- Other
Joseph Beuys
1921 - 1986
Heinrich Campendonk
1889 - 1957
Ralf Hütter
Born 1946
Andrea Berg
Born 1966
Rudi Dornbusch
1942 - 2002
Jannis Niewöhner
Born 1992
Albert Oehlen
Born 1954
Peter Longerich
Born 1955
Karl Kaufmann
1900 - 1969
Marta Hillers
1911 - 2001
Walter Janssen
1887 - 1976
Charlotte Auerbach
1899 - 1994
Bernhard Hennen
Born 1966
Barbara Rittner
Born 1973
Werner Voss
1897 - 1917
Max August Zorn
1906 - 1993
Markus Oehlen
Born 1956
Thomen Stauch
Born 1970
Ina Bauer (figure skater)
1941 - 2014
Philip Hindes
Born 1992
Leopold Löwenheim
1878 - 1957
Ulrich Peltzer
Born 1956
Olaf Janßen
Born 1966
Kurt Mahler
1903 - 1988
Heinrich Nauen
1880 - 1940
Fritz ter Meer
1884 - 1967
Marcus Siepen
Born 1968
Herbert Zangs
1924 - 2003
Eduard Vogel
1829 - 1856
Hans Neuenfels
Born 1941
Christian Becker
Born 1972
Ernst Meumann
1862 - 1915
Aline Focken
Born 1991
Kurt Feltz
1910 - 1982
Heinz Bongartz
1894 - 1978
Friedrich Wolters
1876 - 1930
Gerd Grochowski
1956 - 2017
Hermann Giskes
1896 - 1977
Juliane Schenk
Born 1982
Ahmet Cebe
Born 1983
Kirsten Heisig
1961 - 2010
Lisa Schmidla
Born 1991
Jochen Neerpasch
Born 1939
Helmut Hentrich
1905 - 2001
Martin Hyun
Born 1979
Albert Dohmen
Born 1956
Horst Steffen
Born 1969
Ruth Niehaus
1925 - 1994
Hermann von Beckerath
1801 - 1870
Elke Schmitter
Born 1961
Helmuth Macke
1891 - 1936
Wilhelm Gause
1853 - 1916
Margarethe Schreinemakers
Born 1958
Saki Kaskas
1971 - 2016
Narcisse Leven
1833 - 1915
Felix Kracht
1912 - 2002
Carl Wilhelm Wirtz
1876 - 1939
Daniel Pietta
Born 1986
Martha Genenger
1911 - 1995
Rudolf Mengelberg
1892 - 1959
Franz Nikolaus Finck
1867 - 1910
Ernst Schneppenhorst
1881 - 1945
Carola Bauckholt
Born 1959
Barış Örücü
Born 1992
Anne Poleska
Born 1980
Brigitte Holzapfel
Born 1958
Carl Jöken
1893 - 1972
Lothar Claesges
Born 1942
Edmund ter Meer
1852 - 1931
Wilhelm von Abbema
1812 - 1889
Fritz Pölking
1936 - 2007
Bodo Hauser
1946 - 2004
Hans Noever
Born 1928
Hermann Speelmans
1902 - 1960
Johann Jakob Christian Donner
1799 - 1875
Heinrich Band
1821 - 1860
Kosmonova
Born 1970
Koray Kacinoglu
Born 1994
Arthur König
1856 - 1901
Ernst Bosch
1834 - 1917
Otto Fricke (Politiker, 1965)
Born 1965
Johannes Cladders
1924 - 2009
Selin Oruz
Born 1997
Herbert Genzmer
Born 1952
Rudolf Halin
1934 - 2014
Norbert Walter-Borjans
Born 1952
Timur Oruz
Born 1994
Hans N. Weiler
Born 1934
Philipp Gruissem
Born 1987
Clara Vogedes
1892 - 1983
Erich Weise
1895 - 1972
Konrad Jörgens
1926 - 1974
Wiltrud Urselmann
Born 1942
Karl Emil Schäfer
1891 - 1917
Jean-Jacques Flatters
1786 - 1845
Peter Ahrweiler
1915 - 2004
Ehrenfried Rudolph
Born 1935
Niklas Wellen
Born 1994
Hans Marchand
1907 - 1978
Caroline Casaretto
Born 1978
Werner Baumann
Born 1962
Gustav Adolf Bredow
1875 - 1953
Max Kaase
Born 1935
Fritz Bartholomae
1886 - 1915
Wilhelm Karmann
1871 - 1922
Otto Brües
1897 - 1967
Heiko Pinkowski
Born 1966
Jürgen Paas
Born 1958
Ferdinand Theissen
1877 - 1919
Georg Scheu
1879 - 1949
Kuno Kamphausen
1900 - 1934
Philip Riefers
Born 1990
Ingo Lenßen
Born 1961
Nic Chagall
Born 1972
Ingeborg Scheibler
Born 1929
Heinrich Giskes
Born 1946
Mira Bartuschek
Born 1978
August Bernthsen
1855 - 1931
Horst Blanck
1936 - 2010
Eric "Big Daddy" Nord
1920 - 1989
Carl Arnold Willemsen
1902 - 1986
Wilhelm Elfes
1884 - 1969
Alfred Holler
1888 - 1954
Hans Gustav Röhr
1895 - 1937
Jochen Urban
Born 1983
Franz Wilhelm Jerusalem
1883 - 1970
Stefan Maria Schneider
Born 1980
Sigbert Wagener
1919 - 2004
Willi Bartholomae
Born 1885
Abraham op den Graeff
1649 - 1731
Manfred Köhnlechner
1925 - 2002
Adolf Remelé
1839 - 1915
Ernst Hermann Seyffardt
1859 - 1942
Bernd Lehmann
Born 1947
Theo Akkermann
1907 - 1982
Heinz Bienefeld
1926 - 1995
Marcel Benger
Born 1998
Isy Orén
Born 1946
Lothar Kremershof
1953 - 2003
Dennis Leyckes
Born 1982
Herbert Krüger
1905 - 1989
Rudolf van Hüllen
Born 1957
Alice Franz
1912 - 2011
Christoph Biermann
Born 1960
Michael Pauen
Born 1956
Theodor Heinrich Bongartz
1902 - 1945
Franz-Josef Wolfframm
1934 - 2015
Christian Breuer (Eisschnellläufer)
Born 1976
Klaus Jürgen-Fischer
1930 - 2017
Adolf Luther
1912 - 1990
Johannes Driesch
1901 - 1930
Heinz Maus
1911 - 1978
Ruth-Margret Pütz
1931 - 2019
Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg
1894 - 1968
Klemens Grossimlinghaus
1941 - 1991
Karl Heinz Burmeister
1936 - 2014
Cornelius de Greiff
1781 - 1863
Hans Ebeling (Publizist)
1897 - 1968
Oliver Hörner
Born 1967
Detlef Horster
Born 1942
Kai-Uwe Ricke
Born 1961
Rudolf Hirsch (Schriftsteller)
1907 - 1998
Jacobus Schoemaker Doyer
1792 - 1867
Hans Peter Thurn
Born 1943
Hans Ailbout
1879 - 1957
Achim Konejung
Born 1957
Thierry Hermès
1801 - 1878
Raimund Thomas
Born 1938
Alfred Becker
1899 - 1981
Christina von Hodenberg
Born 1965
Marc Schaub
Born 1992
Erich Arndt
1911 - 1961
Ulrich F. Opfermann
Born 1945
Heinrich Kipp
1910 - 1993
Christian Krumm
Born 1977
Karl Buschhüter
1872 - 1956
Ulli Jansen
1931 - 2006
Michael Cromer
1939 - 2007
Gisela Keiner
Born 1941
Anselm Doering-Manteuffel
Born 1949
Helmut Linssen
Born 1942
Tina Seydel
Born 1978
Monika Kruszona
Born 1985
Ulrich Klever
1922 - 1990
Inge von Bönninghausen
Born 1938
Erwin von Beckerath
1889 - 1964
Pinar Erincin
Born 1983
Tata Ronkholz
1940 - 1997
Armin Heinen
Born 1952
Hermann Keussen
1862 - 1943
Frank Mattern
Born 1961
Victor Otto Stomps
1897 - 1970
Willy von Beckerath
1868 - 1938
Stefanie Lieb
Born 1966
Reinhard Schmitz-Scherzer
1938 - 2016
Wilhelm Mink
1807 - 1883
Gisbert Poensgen
1923 - 2011
Walter Emmerich
1895 - 1967
Uwe Kiessler
Born 1937
Georg Fohrer
1915 - 2002
Marlis Hochbruck
Born 1964
Michael Klein (Wissenschaftsmanager)
Born 1965
Eberhard Bons
Born 1958
Iris Kammerer
Born 1963
Rolf Nolden
Born 1954
Dieter Mertens (Volkswirt)
1931 - 1989
Ernst Loewy
1920 - 2002
Dennis Gehlen
Born 1986
Bernward Dörner
Born 1956
Karl-Heinz Leven
Born 1959
Walter von Lom
Born 1938
Werner Ross
1912 - 2002
Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel
1783 - 1838
Irene Gerlach
Born 1955
Bettina van Haaren
Born 1961
Toni Matarrelli
Born 1975
Hansheinz Hauser
1922 - 2020
Jochen Bludau
Born 1941
Max Versé
1877 - 1947
Werner Pepels
Born 1952
Ulrich Weber (Manager)
Born 1950
Adam Weyer
1928 - 1995
Maria Madlen Madsen
1905 - 1990
Ulrich Hahnen
1952 - 2016
Julian Heynen
Born 1951
Ignacio Uriarte
Born 1972
Richard Kämmerlings
Born 1969
Christof Kreutzer
Born 1967
Katharina Gierok
Born 1992
Sigi Busch
Born 1943
Hermann Stremme
1879 - 1961
Hanns Jürgen Küsters
Born 1952
Michael Schwarze
Born 1939
Stefan Hecker
1959 - 2019
Michael Neupert
Born 1986
Klaus Luig
Born 1935
Matthias Fontheim
Born 1956
Bert Even
1925 - 2016
Samira Radsi
Born 1968
Thomas Michels
1892 - 1979
Heinrich Kamps
1896 - 1954
Fred Dubitscher
1905 - 1978
Hans-Wilhelm Klein
1911 - 1992
Edmund Erlemann
1935 - 2015
Nikolaus Goetze
Born 1958
Günter Vogelsang
1920 - 2015
Ingrid Galster
1944 - 2015
Paul Kleinewefers
1905 - 2001
Thomas Hoeps
Born 1966
Thomas Apolte
Born 1960
Wilhelm Cremer (Schriftsteller)
1874 - 1932
Adolf Höninghaus
1811 - 1882
Ernst Bamberg
Born 1940
Klaus-Peter Bruns
1913 - 2011
Michael Beurskens
Born 1977
Eberhard Herf
1887 - 1946
Peter Terrid
1949 - 1998
Nicole Anyomi
Born 2000
Bastian Roscheck
Born 1991
Peter Joch
Born 1962
Gert Lothar Haberland
1928 - 2014
Herta Wescher
1899 - 1971
Hans Hubberten
1929 - 1988
Horst Zimmermann (Finanzwissenschaftler)
Born 1934
Carl Föhl
1901 - 1973
Friedrich Heinrich von Friedrich von der Leyen –
1769 - 1825
Andrea Claßen
Born 1955
Christoph Dohr
Born 1964
Eduard Jacobs
1833 - 1919
Birgit Klausmann
Born 1956
Alexander Mühlen
Born 1942
Paul Angenvoorth
Born 1948
Christian Jenssen
1905 - 1996
Moritz von Beckerath
1838 - 1896
Markus Türk
Born 1962
Gerd Rohling
Born 1946
Dieter Pützhofen
Born 1942
Hermann Altgelt
1795 - 1871
Max Wilmsen
1885 - 1953
Bodo Witzke
Born 1955
Johannes Blum
1857 - 1946
Manfred Kubik
Born 1967
Klaus Evertz (Politiker)
1944 - 2016
Ulrich Crämer
1907 - 1992
Hans Georg Koch (Musiker)
1941 - 2005
Gunild Feigenwinter
Born 1940
Werner Heinrichs
Born 1947
Adolf Heyden
1838 - 1902
Günter Papendell
Born 1975
Erich von Rath
1881 - 1948
Carl Ludwig Paul Trüb
1894 - 1981
Hans Queling
1903 - 1984
Christian Sterzing
Born 1949
Jan Hubert Pinand
1888 - 1958
Kurt Hess
1888 - 1961
Arthur W. Ahrweiler
Born 1951
Franz Heinrich von Rigal
1785 - 1852
Beate Jasch
Born 1959
August Wimmer
1899 - 1988
Theodor Pelster
Born 1937