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MUNICH
Most Famous People Born in Munich, Germany
- Notable people
- 6,340
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1937
- Most distinctive
- Author 3.7×
Bavaria's salon, with a long academic and curatorial streak. Munich's distinctive professions are authors, academics, sculptors, painters, and film directors — the trades of a city where the Akademie, the Residenz library, and the Bavaria Film studios all share the same payroll. Painters dominate the 19th-century half, when the Munich Academy was one of the most important art schools in Europe, and the actor share is among the highest in the German-speaking world.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Munich during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Munich Is Known For
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Actor is Munich's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (853).
Munich over-indexes on author — 3.7× the global rate.
Munich under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Munich's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Science
- Art & Design
- Politics & Law
- Sports
- Other
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Valentin Adamberger
1743 - 1804
Lorenz von Westenrieder
1748 - 1829
Aloys Basselet von La Rosée
1747 - 1826
Andreas Dominikus Zaupser
1746 - 1795
Adrian von Riedl
1746 - 1809
Anton von Bucher
1746 - 1817
Bernardo Maria Aliprandi
1747 - 1801
Peter Hartmann (Kanonist)
1747 - 1821
Johann Friedrich Hellmuth
1740 - 1785
Friedrich Roman Gebhard
1742 - 1803