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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
- Filtered to 1770s Clear ×
Franz Seraph von Destouches
1772 - 1844
Johann Jakob Dorner the Younger
1775 - 1852
Maximilian Seyssel d’Aix
1776 - 1855
Anton Auer
1778 - 1814
Marianne Kürzinger
1770 - 1809
Philipp Jakob Röth
1779 - 1850
Carl Neuner
1778 - 1830
Franz Xaver von Caspar
1772 - 1833
Simon Spitzweg
1776 - 1828
Franz Xaver Zacherl
1772 - 1849
Simon von Haeberl
1772 - 1831
Anton Schröfl
1774 - 1846
Johann Nepomuk von Caspar
1774 - 1858