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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
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- Filtered to 1850s Clear ×
Georg Kerschensteiner
1854 - 1932
Oskar von Miller
1855 - 1934
Princess Therese of Bavaria
1850 - 1925
Friedrich August von Kaulbach
1850 - 1920
Louise Catherine Breslau
1856 - 1927
Max Rubner
1854 - 1932
Emil Doepler
1855 - 1922
Walther von Dyck
1856 - 1934
Ludwig Knorr
1859 - 1921
Albert Grünwedel
1856 - 1935
Felix Graf von Bothmer
1852 - 1937
Prince Arnulf of Bavaria
1852 - 1907
Eugen von Knilling
1856 - 1927
Georg von Vollmar
1850 - 1922
Hans Ernst August Buchner
1850 - 1902
Julius Adam
1852 - 1913
Agnes Sapper
1852 - 1929
Gabriel Schachinger
1850 - 1912
Max Koch (academic)
1855 - 1931
Emanuel von Seidl
1856 - 1919
Max Schlosser
1854 - 1932
Ernst Zimmermann (Maler)
1852 - 1901
Hermann von der Pfordten
1857 - 1933
Otto Baumgarten
1858 - 1934
Ludwig Maurer
1859 - 1927
Conrad Dreher
1859 - 1944
Max Thedy
1858 - 1924
Michael August Schichtl
1851 - 1911
Alfred Zimmermann (Maler)
1854 - 1910
Maximilian von Speidel
1856 - 1943
Karl von Gravenreuth
1858 - 1891
Karl Schultheiss
1852 - 1944
Eugen Oberhummer
1859 - 1944
Anton Seder
1850 - 1916
Karl Knabl
1850 - 1904
Anton Georg Zwengauer
1850 - 1928
Joseph Führer
1858 - 1903
Berthold Riehl
1858 - 1911
Josef Schmitzberger
1851 - 1936
Cella Thoma
1858 - 1901
Fritz Baer (Maler)
1850 - 1919
Willibald Wolfsteiner
1855 - 1942
Amalie Baisch
Born 1859
Julius Scheuerer
1859 - 1913
Justus Carrière (Zoologe)
1854 - 1893
Franz Eher
1851 - 1918
Erwin Voit
1852 - 1932
Adolf Wilhelm Keim
1851 - 1913
Karl Krauß
1859 - 1906
George Herzog
1851 - 1920
Philipp Allfeld
1852 - 1940
Fritz Baumgarten (Kunsthistoriker)
1856 - 1913
Karl von Martini
1855 - 1935
Karl Theodor von Eheberg
1855 - 1941
Rudolf von Hößlin
1858 - 1936
August Holmberg
1851 - 1911
Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann
1853 - 1883
Julius Beck (Schriftsteller)
1852 - 1920
August von Brück
1859 - 1941
Franz Krombach
1853 - 1908
Hermine Hoffmann
1857 - 1945
Katharina Windscheid
1859 - 1943
Simon Theodor Rauecker
1854 - 1940
Elisabeth Winterhalter
1856 - 1952
Emmerich von Arco-Valley
1852 - 1909
Johann Baptist Winklhofer
1859 - 1949
Gabriele Maria Deininger-Arnhard
1855 - 1945
Christiane von Preysing
1852 - 1923
August Pauly (Zoologe)
1850 - 1914
Francis C. Schroen
1857 - 1924
Cäsar Beck
1850 - 1925
Viktoria Blank
1859 - 1928
Karl Albert von Baur
1851 - 1907
Helene von Frauendorfer-Mühlthaler
1853 - 1933
Alois Zettler
1854 - 1942
Eugen Quaglio
1857 - 1942
Bodo von dem Knesebeck
1851 - 1911
Georg Loesti
1859 - 1943
Karl Stuhlmüller
1859 - 1930
Gustav von Schoch
1858 - 1924
Ignaz Sendtner
1858 - 1936
Max Hieber
1856 - 1914
Anton Hammel
1857 - 1925
Carl Seitz
1858 - 1942
Gabriel von Sedlmayr
1850 - 1931
Manfred Lindemann-Frommel
1852 - 1939
Rudolf Sendtner
1853 - 1933
Franz Xaver Schmid-Breitenbach
1857 - 1927
Max Correggio
1854 - 1908
Adalbert Neischl
1853 - 1911
Marie Conrad-Ramlo
1850 - 1921
Felix Ehrl
1855 - 1929
Karl Kopp (Dermatologe)
1855 - 1912
Emanuel Riezler
1854 - 1938
Josef Schützinger
1859 - 1914
Martin von Denk
1854 - 1935
Natalie von Milde
1850 - 1906
Friedrich von Förderreuther
1852 - 1929
Hans Albert (Schauspieler)
1851 - 1912
Hermine Biedermann-Arendts
1855 - 1916
Eduard Brummer
1850 - 1888
Christian Burckhardt
1856 - 1943
Philomene Hartl-Mitius
1852 - 1928
Gotthard Wölzl
1851 - 1932
Heinrich Maria Gietl
1851 - 1918
Karl Kaltenmoser
1853 - 1923
Johann Karl von und zu Franckenstein (Politiker) �
1858 - 1913
Max Stumpf
1853 - 1925
Peter Gleitsmann
1855 - 1929
Carl Johann von Krazeisen
1851 - 1924
Josef Rösl
1853 - 1938
Otto Beck (Schauspieler)
1857 - 1942
Friedrich Renk
1850 - 1928
Adam Scheidt
1854 - 1933
Hugo von Huller
1859 - 1931
Hubert von Gumppenberg
1855 - 1938
Johann Birner
1858 - 1924
Viktoria Pohl-Meiser
1858 - 1936
Eduard von Reuter
1855 - 1942
Max von Redwitz
1858 - 1920
Rudolf Eiswaldt
1859 - 1930
Ludwig Martin (entomologist)
1858 - 1924
Henrique Rupp
1854 - 1915
Maximilian von Steinsdorf (General, 1852)
1852 - 1919
Albrecht Riezler
1856 - 1935
Amalie Cramer
1859 - 1913