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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Albrecht Altdorfer
1480 - 1538
Christoph Ludwig Agricola
1667 - 1719
Adolf Oberländer
1845 - 1923
Erhard Altdorfer
1480 - 1561
Berthold Furtmeyr
Born 1446
Josef Achmann
1885 - 1958
Heinrich Lang (Maler, 1838)
1838 - 1891
Johann Adam Schöpf
1702 - 1772
Joseph Watter
1838 - 1913
Andrei Kushnir
Born 1947
Georg Mathias Fuchs
1719 - 1797
Manfred G. Dinnes
1950 - 2012
Renate Christin
Born 1941
Peter Wittmann (Künstler)
Born 1951
Guido Zingerl
Born 1933
Otto Gebhard
1703 - 1773
Maria Seidenschwann
Born 1943
Alfred Kremer
1895 - 1965
Bernhard Maria Fuchs
1959 - 2014
Vinzenz Georg Kininger
1767 - 1851
Hans Geistreiter
1910 - 1996
Eugen von Baumgarten
1865 - 1919
Martin Speer (Maler)
1701 - 1765
Walter Zacharias
1919 - 2000
Gustav von Bechtolsheim (Maler)
1842 - 1924
Fritz Wurmdobler
1915 - 2008
Bernhard Mrohs
Born 1949
Walter Hagen (Maler, 1928)
1928 - 1980
Hans J. Glas
Born 1937