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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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Franz Xaver von Baader
1765 - 1841
Joseph von Baader
1763 - 1835
Clemens Alois Baader
1762 - 1838
Franz von Krenner
1762 - 1819
Aloys von Rechberg
1766 - 1849
Cajetan Weiller
1761 - 1826
Joseph Anton von Destouches
1767 - 1832
Franz Paul von Mittermayr
1766 - 1836
Simon Warnberger
1769 - 1847
Andreas Seidl (Maler)
1760 - 1834
Philipp von Zwackh
1766 - 1839
Georg Karl von Sutner
1763 - 1836
Franz von Minucci
1767 - 1812