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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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Maximilian II of Bavaria
1811 - 1864
Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg
1817 - 1852
Benno Adam
1812 - 1892
Josephine Lang
1815 - 1880
Carl Baermann
1810 - 1885
Max Haushofer
1811 - 1866
Max Lilienthal
1815 - 1882
Eugen Adam
1817 - 1880
Otto Sendtner
1813 - 1859
Anton Zwengauer
1810 - 1884
Alexander Maximilian Seitz
1811 - 1888
Ludwig von Hagn
1819 - 1898
H. W. J. Thiersch
1817 - 1885
Franz von Seitz
1817 - 1883
Michael Echter
1812 - 1879
Ludwig von Buhl
1816 - 1880
August von Krempelhuber
1813 - 1882
Ludwig Andreas Buchner
1813 - 1897
Gustav von Leonhard
1816 - 1878
Alois Löcherer
1815 - 1862
Charles Oberthür (composer)
1819 - 1895
Gabriel Sedlmayr
1811 - 1891
Johannes Roth
1815 - 1858
Heinrich G. F. Schröder
1810 - 1885
Johann Peter Cavallo
1819 - 1892
Franz Seidel
1818 - 1903
Peter Karl von Aretin
1814 - 1887
Joseph Radspieler
1819 - 1904
Johann Zacherl
1814 - 1888
Friedrich Karl Stahl
1811 - 1873
Michael Öchsner
1816 - 1893
Wilhelm Versing
1811 - 1879
Joseph Resch
1819 - 1901
Hans Brunner (Maler)
1813 - 1888
Sebastian Habenschaden
1813 - 1868
Friedrich Brugger
1815 - 1870
Wilhelm Stahl (Ökonom)
1812 - 1873
Franz Trautmann (författare)
1813 - 1887
Rudolph Schachner
1816 - 1896
August Vogel (Agrarchemiker)
1817 - 1889
Franz Xaver von Hofstetten
1811 - 1883
Karl von Eichthal
1813 - 1880
Ernst Buchner (Mediziner)
1812 - 1872
Anton Franz Besnard
1814 - 1885
Thomas Guggenberger
1815 - 1882
Georg von Grundner
1813 - 1893
Frieda Beck-Weichselbaum
1814 - 1890
Ludwig von Ysenburg-Philippseich
1815 - 1889
Adrian Schleich
1812 - 1894
Max Maerz
1812 - 1879
Hanno Rhomberg
1819 - 1864
August Schleich
1814 - 1865
Christian Cron
1813 - 1892
Carl Hildenbrand
1814 - 1872
Joseph Friedrich Lentner
1814 - 1852
Ferdinand Petzl
1819 - 1899
Eduard Merk
1816 - 1888
Wilhelm Melchior
1817 - 1860
Ferdinand von Soyer
1810 - 1868
Johann Baptist Dilger
1814 - 1847
Thomas Birnböck
1811 - 1870
Carl von Meixner
1814 - 1880
Ludwig von Neumayr
1810 - 1895
Joseph Melchior
1810 - 1883
Johann Philipp Allfeld
1819 - 1890
Max Theodor Mayer
1817 - 1886
Adam Schantz
1819 - 1879
Viktorine von Butler-Haimhausen
1811 - 1902
Gustav von Mühlbauer
1816 - 1889
Marie Clauer
1816 - 1840