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LEIPZIG
Most Famous People Born in Leipzig, Germany
- Notable people
- 3,200
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- Median birth year
- 1908
- Most distinctive
- Publisher 8.9×
For two centuries the publishing capital of the German-speaking world, and the numbers still show it. Leipzig's most distinctive profession is publisher at nearly nine times the global rate, alongside an unusually heavy bench of theologians, art historians, and academic authors — the shape of a city whose book fair, Reclam editions, and university library set what German readers read for two centuries. Bach worked at the Thomaskirche, Leibniz was born here, and Clara Schumann grew up in its salons.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Leipzig during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Leipzig Is Known For
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Politician is Leipzig's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (334).
Leipzig over-indexes on publisher — 8.9× the global rate.
Leipzig under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Leipzig's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Politics & Law
- Art & Design
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Other
- Filtered to 1870s Clear ×
Karl Liebknecht
1871 - 1919
Alfred Abel
1879 - 1937
Carl Sternheim
1878 - 1942
Günther Enderlein
1872 - 1968
Walter Andrae
1875 - 1956
Oskar Zwintscher
1870 - 1916
Boris Fedtschenko
1872 - 1947
Theodor Liebknecht
1870 - 1948
Josephine Siebe
1870 - 1941
Otto Hoetzsch
1876 - 1946
Elisabeth Andrae
1876 - 1945
Wilhelm Paulcke
1873 - 1949
Elsa Bassermann
1878 - 1961
Rudolf Swiderski
1878 - 1909
Conrad Böcker
1870 - 1936
Karl Baedeker (scientist)
1877 - 1914
Gertrud David
1872 - 1936
Curt Glaser
1879 - 1943
Karl Heussi
1877 - 1961
Otto Fischer (peintre)
1870 - 1947
Ferdinand Gregori
1870 - 1928
Hans Heinrich Georg Queckenstedt
1876 - 1918
Wilhelm Wirth
1876 - 1952
Moritz Weber
1871 - 1951
Felix Pfeifer
1871 - 1945
Otto Liebknecht
1876 - 1949
Hans Hermann (Komponist)
1870 - 1931
Bernhard Kuhnt
1876 - 1946
Ludwig Volkmann
1870 - 1947
Theodor Arldt
1878 - 1960
Otto Paul Burghardt
1875 - 1959
Max Brödel
1870 - 1941
Arnold Jacobi
1870 - 1948
Paul Matthes
1879 - 1949
Max Bernuth
1872 - 1960
Arthur Saxon
1878 - 1921
Max Wundt
1879 - 1963
Fritz Löwe
1874 - 1955
Paul von Bleichert
1877 - 1938
Ernst Vetterlein
1873 - 1950
Rudolf Zwintscher
1871 - 1946
Felix Eisengräber
1874 - 1940
Walter Georgi
1871 - 1924
Wolfgang Heubner
1877 - 1957
Karl Alexander Wilke
1879 - 1954
Hermann Triepel
1871 - 1935
Alfred Götze (Philologe)
1876 - 1946
Johannes Richardy
1878 - 1955
Gertrud Kleinhempel
1875 - 1948
Óscar Prager
1876 - 1960
Otto Westphal (Maler)
1878 - 1975
Walter Püttner
1872 - 1953
Hugo Gugg
1878 - 1956
Carl Ernst Poeschel
1874 - 1944
Erich Kleinhempel
1874 - 1947
Kurt Martens
1870 - 1945
Willy Möbius
1879 - 1964
Wil Howard
1879 - 1945
Carl Horst
1875 - 1934
Herrmann A. L. Degener
1874 - 1943
Willy Gehler
1876 - 1953
Hans Preuß
1876 - 1951
Fritz Beckert (Maler)
1877 - 1962
Karl Ernst Henrici
1879 - 1944
Franz Eckstein
1878 - 1945
Carl Credé (Schriftsteller)
1878 - 1952
Felix Dietrich
1874 - 1938
Johannes Pinckert
1879 - 1956
Otto Hermann Steche
1879 - 1945
Arthur Bock
1875 - 1957
William Bromme
1873 - 1926
Paul Ehmig
1874 - 1938
Walther Illner
1874 - 1959
Lena Stein-Schneider
1874 - 1958
Felix Hübel
1874 - 1922
Hans Lamer
1873 - 1939
Albert Schwarz (Politiker)
1876 - 1929
Hugo Emanuel Becher
1871 - 1942
Walter Hauschild
1876 - 1969
Ernst Frommhold (Maler)
1879 - 1955
Herbert von Bomsdorff-Bergen
Born 1876
Albin Frehse
1878 - 1973
Raymund Brachmann
1872 - 1953
Wilhelm Geißler (Ingenieur)
1875 - 1937
Phokion Naoúm
1875 - 1950
Otto Bruno Schoenfeld
1871 - 1938
Hans Voigt
1879 - 1953
Albert Kunze (Sänger)
1872 - 1954
Georg von Hase
1878 - 1971
Heinz Marr
1876 - 1940
Johannes Nitzsche
1879 - 1947
Carl Drucker
1876 - 1959
Paul Fleischer
1874 - 1960
James Bieberkraut
1879 - 1981
Walter Lilie
1876 - 1924
Paul Kother
1878 - 1963
Arthur Kötz
1871 - 1944
Max Kiessling
1877 - 1946
Paul Rößler
1873 - 1957
Alexander Bittorf
1876 - 1949
Reinhold Fischer (Volkssänger)
1877 - 1960
Kurt Tuch
1877 - 1963
Rudolf Wustmann
1872 - 1916
Oscar de Liagre
1870 - 1940
Karl von Zahn
1877 - 1944
Erich Hesse
1874 - 1945
Oswald Winkel
1874 - 1953
Carl Müller-Baumgarten
1879 - 1964
Alexander Gutbier
1876 - 1926
Alfred Schneider (Artist)
1876 - 1941
Paula Doenges
1874 - 1931
Rudolf Georgi
1879 - 1956
Walther Felix Mueller
1879 - 1970
Georg Benedix
1876 - 1970
Felix von Bressensdorf
1876 - 1955
Alexander Jadassohn
1873 - 1948
Georg Höhlig
1879 - 1960
Gerhard Stumme
1871 - 1955
Gustav Aeckerlein
1878 - 1965
Horst Schöttler
1874 - 1942
Paul Reymann
1879 - 1933
Philipp Ernst Reclam
1876 - 1953
Camilla Dalberg
1870 - 1968
Paul Roux (Fechtmeister)
1870 - 1935
Theodor Schöffler
1877 - 1903
Georg Lilie
1873 - 1935
Max Rossbach
1871 - 1948
Kurt Eulenburg
1879 - 1982
Paul Vogel (Lehrer)
1877 - 1960
Paul Neue
1876 - 1969
Johannes Wunderlich
1876 - 1935
Walther Krötzsch
1878 - 1951
Johannes Gündel
1872 - 1938
Hans Lindenhayn
1878 - 1970
Anton Mitterwurzer (Schauspieler)
1870 - 1902
Gustav Adolf Kuhfahl
1870 - 1938
Anna Hübler (Politikerin)
1876 - 1923
Georg Schmidt (Politiker, 1877)
1877 - 1941
Bruno Krug
1874 - 1964
Hans Bahrdt (Mediziner)
1877 - 1953
Paul Rudolf Backhaus
1879 - 1955
Alfred Müller (Forstwissenschaftler)
1874 - 1955
Gretchen Barthelmes
1874 - 1920
Eduard Einschlag
1879 - 1945
Helene Arnau
1870 - 1958
Friedrich Tscharmann
1871 - 1945
Hans Freiesleben
1871 - 1945
Walter Hartwig
1874 - 1942
Harald Ekwall
Born 1873
Walter Schlobach
1875 - 1950
Karl August Fritzsche
1871 - 1944
Wilhelm Schloemilch
1870 - 1939
Paul Herold (Artist)
1874 - 1939
Rudolf Gangloff
1878 - 1967
Wilhelm Tell (Politiker)
1871 - 1950
Alfred Franke (Geograph)
1870 - 1937
Otto Tegetmeyer
1875 - 1960
Max Engelhardt (Schauspieler)
1870 - 1941
Albert Hüper
1870 - 1956
Katharina Hertwig
1878 - 1953
Walter Willhöfft
1873 - 1936