49.0169° N, 12.0836° E
REGENSBURG
Most Famous People Born in Regensburg, Germany
- Notable people
- 618
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1924
- Most distinctive
- Prince 20.9×
A Danube river-crossing that spent centuries hosting the Holy Roman Diet and then, when the Diet moved on, became the private seat of the Thurn und Taxis — which is why the Prince bench runs at better than twenty times the global rate despite a town population nowhere near imperial scale. The thick Academic and Composer presences behind it still carry a court-patronage flavor that more industrial German cities shed a century ago, and the Sculptor and Author benches trace the same ecclesiastical-to-scholarly arc down through the Regensburg academy.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Regensburg during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Regensburg Is Known For
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Politician is Regensburg's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (68).
Regensburg over-indexes on prince — 20.9× the global rate.
Regensburg under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Regensburg's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Adolf Oberländer
1845 - 1923
Maximilian Oberst
1849 - 1925
Max Roesler
1840 - 1922
Carl Lang (Meteorologe)
1849 - 1893
Adolf Horchler
1849 - 1929
Prince Gustav of Thurn and Taxis (1848–1914)
1848 - 1914
Gustav von Bechtolsheim (Maler)
1842 - 1924
Leonhard Tauscher
1840 - 1914
Theophil von Reichlin-Meldegg
1846 - 1910
Adolf von Neuffer
1845 - 1924
Max von Preysing-Lichtenegg
1849 - 1926
Charlotte Frohn
1844 - 1888
Karl Sigmund Christian Grießenbeck von Grießenba
1844 - 1881