49.1197° N, 6.1769° E
METZ
Most Famous People Born in Metz, France
- Notable people
- 824
- Peak decade
- 1890s
- Median birth year
- 1885
- Most distinctive
- Militar 6.7×
A garrison city on the French-German fault line, and it reads like one: the Militar and Officer benches are outsized for any town this size, with a Physician count bulging from the military medical tradition. Paul Verlaine was born in the shadow of those barracks, and the Painter thread hints at the Lorraine schools and the Pompidou-Metz generations still to come.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Metz during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Metz Is Known For
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Politician is Metz's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (95).
Metz over-indexes on militar — 6.7× the global rate.
Metz under-produces football — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Metz's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Hans von Salmuth
1888 - 1962
Otto Flake
1880 - 1963
Lou Albert-Lasard
1885 - 1969
Günther Rüdel
1883 - 1950
Bodo Zimmermann
1886 - 1963
Rudolf John Gorsleben
1883 - 1930
Walter Curt Behrendt
1884 - 1945
Charles Willy Kayser
1881 - 1942
Hermann Wendel
1884 - 1936
Walther Kittel
1887 - 1971
Karl Kriebel
1888 - 1961
Minna Beckmann-Tube
1881 - 1964
Ilse Heller-Lazard
1884 - 1934
Wilhelm Baur
1883 - 1964
Gerta von Ubisch
1882 - 1965
Désiré Ferry
1886 - 1940
Luise von Winterfeld
1882 - 1967
Gustav Klingelhöfer
1888 - 1961
Alfred Heurich
1883 - 1967
Joachim Degener
1883 - 1953
Hermann Schaefer
1885 - 1962
Hans Carls
1886 - 1952
Peter Bell (Reichstag)
1889 - 1939
Karl Hermann Scheumann
1881 - 1964
Otto Karl Stollberg
1883 - 1948
Moritz von Bissing (tennis)
1886 - 1954
Karl Süpfle
1880 - 1942
Otto Schumann
1886 - 1952
Sigmund von Imhoff
1881 - 1967
Rudolf Harney
1880 - 1965
Hans-Henning von Fölkersamb
1889 - 1984
Maria Joseph Weber
1887 - 1949
Otto Leitolf
1881 - 1967
Friedrich Marnet
1882 - 1915
Kurt von Falkowski
1886 - 1953
Ernst Wieblitz
1883 - 1973
Ernst Terres
1887 - 1958
Ludwig Herthel
1887 - 1965
August Valentin Jäger
1881 - 1954
Anna Kaiser
1885 - 1942
Rolf Mayer-Schalburg
1883 - 1976
August Bratfisch
1883 - 1960
Hans-Georg Alexander Kremmler
1885 - 1966
Erich Kothe
1883 - 1962
Ernst Batzer
1881 - 1938
Friedrich Blaul
1889 - 1947
Karl Braun (aviateur)
1885 - 1945
Marcel Noblot
1880 - 1935
Kurt Griepenkerl
Born 1888
Otto Behrendt
Born 1880
Ernst Wendel
1881 - 1938
Hans Honig
1880 - 1946