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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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Theobald Boehm
1794 - 1881
Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
1797 - 1848
Joseph Anton von Maffei
1790 - 1870
Simon Quaglio
1795 - 1878
Michael Neher
1798 - 1876
Johann Nepomuk Hoechle
1790 - 1835
Lorenzo Quaglio the Younger
1793 - 1869
Joseph von Xylander
1794 - 1854
August Baron de Cetto
1794 - 1879
Ernst von Moy de Sons
1799 - 1867
Franz Xaver Rewitzer
1798 - 1869
Johann Nepomuk Muxel
1790 - 1870
Eduard von Yrsch
1797 - 1862
Maximilian von Lerchenfeld-Köfering
1799 - 1859
Friedrich Bruckbräu
1792 - 1874
Carl Weichselbaumer
1791 - 1871
Joseph von Gumppenberg
1798 - 1855
Max von Gutschneider
1797 - 1874
Wilhelm Urban (Schauspieler)
1795 - 1833
Clara Vespermann
1799 - 1827
Josefa Lang
1791 - 1862
Ferdinand von Schmöger
1792 - 1864
Clementine Pellegrini
1797 - 1845
Joseph Anton Sedlmayr
1797 - 1863
Johann Baptist von Graf
1798 - 1882
Friedrich von Schmauß
1792 - 1846
Johann Baptist Lonich
1798 - 1866