48.1375° N, 11.5749° E
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
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 842 notable births.
What Munich Is Known For
Click any row to filter the list of people below.
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 1780s Clear ×
Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier
1787 - 1867
Franz Xaver Gabelsberger
1789 - 1849
Domenico Quaglio the Younger
1787 - 1837
Johann Andreas Buchner
1783 - 1852
Joseph Schlotthauer
1789 - 1869
Karl von Seinsheim
1784 - 1864
Margarethe Carl
1788 - 1861
Karl Rottmanner
1783 - 1824
Max Bohrer
1785 - 1867
Rosine Lebrun
1783 - 1855
Anton Bohrer
1783 - 1852
Cäsar Max Heigel
1783 - 1848
Joseph Thürmer
1789 - 1833
Joseph Heigel
1780 - 1837
Johann Jakob Ignaz Sendtner
1784 - 1833
Heinrich Eduard Winter
1788 - 1829
Joseph Klotz
1785 - 1830
August von Rechberg
1783 - 1846
Adam Schlotthauer
1781 - 1813
Jakob Moralt
1780 - 1820
Wilhelm von Brühl
1788 - 1867
Philipp von Lerchenfeld
1785 - 1854
Michael Huber (Fabrikant)
1788 - 1857
Joseph Franz von Spengel
1784 - 1851
Angelo Quaglio the Elder
1784 - 1815