49.4878° N, 8.4661° E
MANNHEIM
Most Famous People Born in Mannheim, Germany
- Notable people
- 1,227
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1917
- Most distinctive
- Academic 3.6×
The outsized Composer count is the fingerprint of the 18th-century Mannheim School, the court orchestra under the Elector Palatine that taught Mozart how to write a crescendo. The Physicist and Mathematician depth comes centuries later, from BASF across the river in Ludwigshafen and the postwar university, giving the grid-planned town an oddly bifurcated resume: rococo strings on one side, industrial labs on the other.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Mannheim during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Mannheim Is Known For
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Politician is Mannheim's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (122).
Mannheim over-indexes on academic — 3.6× the global rate.
Mannheim under-produces football — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Mannheim's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Wilhelm von Kobell
1766 - 1853
Peter Dreher
1932 - 2020
Ferdinand Kobell
1740 - 1799
Anna Peters
1843 - 1926
Franz Xaver Fuhr
1898 - 1973
Franz Kobell
1749 - 1822
Martin Schliessler
1929 - 2008
Rudi Baerwind
1910 - 1982
Theodor Leopold Weller
1802 - 1880
Carl Kuntz
1770 - 1830
Walter Stallwitz
Born 1929
Carl Conjola
1773 - 1831
Karl Hoff (Maler, 1838)
1838 - 1890
Louis Coblitz
1814 - 1863
Franz Peter Kymli
1748 - 1813
Hans Dieter
1881 - 1968
Carlo Ignazio Pozzi
1786 - 1842
Otto Propheter
1875 - 1927
Karl Bohrmann
1928 - 1998
Fritz Klemm
1902 - 1990
Max Wolfinger
1837 - 1913
Martina Fischer (Malerin)
Born 1967
Hans Best
1874 - 1942
Karl Matthias Ernst
1758 - 1830
Lambert Sachs
1818 - 1903
Joseph Kellerhoven
1789 - 1849
Otto Albert Koch
1866 - 1920
Hans Graeder
1919 - 1998
Wolf Reuther
1917 - 2004
Berthold Imhoff
1868 - 1939
Friedrich Hoffstadt
1802 - 1846
Rudolf Kuntz
1798 - 1848
Bertold Haag
1912 - 1981
Robert Engelhorn
1856 - 1944
Carl Blos
1860 - 1941
Willy Oeser
1897 - 1966
Caspar Klotz
1774 - 1847
Philipp Klein (Maler)
1871 - 1907
Gerd Kadzik
Born 1929
Max Kahn
1857 - 1939
Wilhelm Nagel (Maler, 1866)
1866 - 1945
Paul Löffler (Maler)
1920 - 1995
Giovanni Maria Quaglio the Younger
1772 - 1813
Joseph Weber (Maler)
1798 - 1883
Mathias Artaria
1814 - 1885
Werner Hansche
1928 - 2010
Lina von Weiler
1830 - 1890
Ludwig Kuntz (Maler)
1810 - 1876
Manfred Schiefer
Born 1946