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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 1880s Clear ×
Franz Marc
1880 - 1916
Ernst Röhm
1887 - 1934
Lion Feuchtwanger
1884 - 1958
Ernst Hanfstaengl
1887 - 1975
Karl Valentin
1882 - 1948
Alfred Einstein
1880 - 1952
Anton Drexler
1884 - 1942
Georg Schrimpf
1889 - 1938
Wilhelm Hoegner
1887 - 1980
Fritz Schäffer
1888 - 1967
Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1886–1970)
1886 - 1970
Hermann Stieve
1886 - 1952
Hermann Finsterlin
1887 - 1973
Gunther Plüschow
1886 - 1931
Kurt Riezler
1882 - 1955
Karl Alexander von Müller
1882 - 1964
Prince Konrad of Bavaria
1883 - 1969
Prince Georg of Bavaria
1880 - 1943
George Sylvester Viereck
1884 - 1962
Hugo Dingler
1881 - 1954
Max Leopold Wagner
1880 - 1962
Eduard Ritter von Schleich
1888 - 1947
Ludwig Gies
1887 - 1966
Prince Heinrich of Bavaria
1884 - 1916
Franz von Hoesslin
1885 - 1946
Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur
1886 - 1960
Bernhard Stempfle
1882 - 1934
Ludwig von Ficker
1880 - 1967
Otto Selz
1881 - 1943
Franz Seitz Sr.
1887 - 1952
Botho Sigwart zu Eulenburg
1884 - 1915
Otto Haesler
1880 - 1962
Fritz Stuckenberg
1881 - 1944
Elise Aulinger
1881 - 1965
Leo Peukert
1885 - 1944
Anna Hübler
1885 - 1976
Heinrich von Ficker
1881 - 1957
Max Hirschberg
1883 - 1964
Alexander Moritz Frey
1881 - 1957
Josef Waitzer
1884 - 1966
Rita Sacchetto
1880 - 1959
Norbert von Hellingrath
1888 - 1916
Rudolf Seeliger
1886 - 1965
Ernst Boehe
1880 - 1938
Toni Stadler junior
1888 - 1982
Hugo Spatz
1888 - 1969
Rudolf Koch-Erpach
1886 - 1971
Eugen Freiherr von Lotzbeck
1882 - 1942
Heinrich Burger
1881 - 1942
Karl Landauer
1887 - 1945
Viktor Emil von Gebsattel
1883 - 1976
Otto Ballerstedt
1887 - 1934
Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz
1886 - 1944
Karl Scharnagl
1881 - 1963
Aloys Wenzl
1887 - 1967
Theodor Baierl
1881 - 1932
Ludwig Feuchtwanger
1885 - 1947
Marie Amelie von Godin
1882 - 1956
Josef Eichheim
1888 - 1945
Lois Welzenbacher
1889 - 1955
Leonhard Gall
1884 - 1952
Max Bedacht
1883 - 1972
Hermann Pfannmüller
1886 - 1961
Wilhelm Schmid
1889 - 1934
Annie Francé-Harrar
1886 - 1971
Rudolf von Ficker
1886 - 1954
Hedwig Hintze
1884 - 1942
Franz Landgraf
1888 - 1944
Ernst Schertel
1884 - 1958
Friedrich Stieve
1884 - 1966
Thea Aichbichler
1889 - 1957
Georg Vogelsang
1883 - 1952
Maja Einstein
1881 - 1951
Aloys Fleischmann (Senior)
1880 - 1964
Otto Sauter-Sarto
1884 - 1958
Kiem Pauli
1882 - 1960
Dora Altmann
1881 - 1971
Otto Ludwig Naegele
1880 - 1952
Erna Hanfstaengl
1885 - 1981
Albert Heilmann
1886 - 1949
Karl Meitinger
1882 - 1970
Julius Schuster (Botaniker)
1886 - 1949
Hildegard Maria von Bayern
1881 - 1948
Karl Attenberger
1885 - 1951
Ottmar Ostermayr
1886 - 1958
Franz Paul Glass
1886 - 1964
Karl Schwarz (Kunsthistoriker)
1885 - 1962
Otto Bäurle
1887 - 1951
Paul Borchardt
1886 - 1953
Fritz Cockerell
1889 - 1965
Otto Obermeier (Künstler)
1883 - 1958
Gustav von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim – Wi
1889 - 1969
Karl Badberger
Born 1888
Louise Modersohn-Breling
1883 - 1950
Ernst Speer
1889 - 1964
Willy Moralt
1884 - 1947
Erich Drach
1885 - 1935
Paul Stollreither
1886 - 1973
Andre Eckardt
1884 - 1974
Bella Waldritter
1886 - 1974
Ludwig Wolker
1887 - 1955
Fritz Löwenthal
1888 - 1956
Eduard Brenner
1888 - 1970
Franz Kandolf
1886 - 1949
Ernst Adam
1884 - 1955
Frieda Thiersch
1889 - 1947
Otto Hartmann (general)
1884 - 1952
Adolf Lazi
1884 - 1955
Hugo Stintzing
1888 - 1970
Marie Bernays
1883 - 1939
Ernst von Angerer
1881 - 1951
Elga Kern
1888 - 1957
Heinrich Marzell
1885 - 1970
Ernst Pündter
1884 - 1929
John T. Essberger
1886 - 1959
Adele Juda
1888 - 1949
Ludwig Kainer
1885 - 1967
Alexander Glaser
1884 - 1934
Angelo Knorr (Chemiker)
1882 - 1950
Camille Mayran
1889 - 1989
Hermann Ritter von Speck
1888 - 1940
Franz Gruber (chanteur)
1882 - 1932
Hans Hartmann (Theologe)
1888 - 1976
Constantin Gerhardinger
1888 - 1970
Manfred Schröter
1880 - 1973
Georg Freundorfer
1881 - 1940
Siegfried Thannhauser
1885 - 1962
Hugo Daffner
1882 - 1936
Robert Heindl
1883 - 1958
Hans Gött
1883 - 1974
Rolf Niczky
1881 - 1950
Max Buchner (Historiker)
1881 - 1941
Martin Feuchtwanger
1886 - 1952
Josef Hartwig
1880 - 1955
Ernst Sattler (Schauspieler)
1887 - 1974
Paul Diehl
1886 - 1976
Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl
1880 - 1936
Adolf Voll
1881 - 1965
Wilhelm Heinrich Nagel
1888 - 1967
Franz Baur
1887 - 1977
Josef Mauder
1884 - 1969
Walther Hofstaetter
1883 - 1968
Otto Hipp
1885 - 1952
Julius Sandmeier
1881 - 1941
Friedrich Wilhelm Kalb
1889 - 1977
Ludwig Bock (Maler)
1886 - 1971
Hans Karlinger
1882 - 1944
Alfred Seyffertitz
1884 - 1944
Eugen von Frauenholz
1882 - 1949
Hermann Kesser
1880 - 1952
Fritz Jäger (Sinologe)
1886 - 1957
Philipp Loewenfeld
1887 - 1963
Hans Reiser (Schriftsteller)
1888 - 1946
Heinrich Kreil
1885 - 1967
Leo Hausleiter
1889 - 1968
Luitpold Adam
1888 - 1950
Wilhelm Nonnenbruch
1887 - 1955
Karl Baur (Bildhauer)
1881 - 1968
August Geislhöringer
1886 - 1963
Heinz Waldmüller (Künstler)
1887 - 1945
Otto Lindpaintner
1883 - 1969
Georg Benno Gruber
1884 - 1977
Adolf Büger
1885 - 1966
Otto Kronburger
1889 - 1944
Alexander Rodenstock
1883 - 1953
Heinrich Berndl
1887 - 1973
Ludwig Dreifuß
1883 - 1960
Robert Riemerschmid
1885 - 1963
Heinz Pringsheim
1882 - 1974
Wilhelm Kröger (Architekt)
Born 1881
Adolf Müller (Verleger)
1884 - 1945
Toni Attenberger
1882 - 1949
Georg Jakob Wolf
1882 - 1936
Klaus Clausmeyer
1887 - 1968
Oskar Vogl
1881 - 1954
Benno Romeis
1888 - 1971
Rudolf Sintzenich
1889 - 1948
Benno Ziegler (Sänger)
1887 - 1963
Rudolf Graf von Spreti
1883 - 1955
Ernst Rattenhuber
1887 - 1951
Ernst Barthels
1886 - 1976
Ernst Reisinger
1884 - 1952
Ulrich Bernays
1881 - 1948
Fritz von Bothmer
1883 - 1941
Fritz Berz
1883 - 1966
Otto Lindpaintner
1885 - 1976
Oskar Gluth
1887 - 1955
Ernst Horadam
1883 - 1956
Hans Peter Cornelius
1888 - 1950
Fritz Skell
1885 - 1961
Joseph Seydel
1887 - 1945
Julius Spanier
1880 - 1959
Hans Jacob
1884 - 1949
Franz von Redwitz
1888 - 1963
Rudolf Hackl
1881 - 1912
Oscar Meyer (Politiker, 1885)
1885 - 1954
Rudolf Oldenbourg (Kunsthistoriker)
1887 - 1921
Toni Thoms
1881 - 1941
Max Zettler (Maler)
1886 - 1926
Bernhard Halbreiter
1881 - 1940
Ludwig Beck (Regisseur)
1887 - 1962
Heinrich Reich
1888 - 1961
Hedwig Stieve
1889 - 1978
Anna Meyer-Glenk
1886 - 1958
Friedrich Wassermann
1884 - 1969
Thea Steinbrecher
1889 - 1922
Otto Stüber
1885 - 1973
Franz Böttger
1888 - 1946
Bernhard Walde
1886 - 1938
Walter Schachinger
1883 - 1962
Heinrich Blecken
1885 - 1965
Emil Hemeter
1880 - 1945
Hermann Schülein
1884 - 1970
Georg Vogt (Maler)
1881 - 1956
Werner Blume
1887 - 1965
Bertl Schultes
1881 - 1964
Berta Thiersch
1888 - 1984
Michael Steinbrecher (Architekt)
1887 - 1976
Karl Pündter
1883 - 1975
Max Schindler
1880 - 1963
Richard Throll
1880 - 1961
Karl Arthur Lange
1881 - 1947
Bruno Flashar
1887 - 1961
Albert Hartmann (Bibliothekar)
1885 - 1973
Lorenz Bätz
1889 - 1926
Elisabeth Kaeser
1882 - 1953
Heinrich Kröller
1880 - 1930
Josef Strobl (Politiker)
1887 - 1965
Waldemar Kolmsperger der Jüngere
1881 - 1954
Hans Haas (Philologe)
1889 - 1957
Immo Wymer
1888 - 1970
Franz Auweck
1884 - 1964
Karl Jonas
1886 - 1962
Albert von Baligand
1881 - 1930
Paul Franz Wassermann
1883 - 1941
Hubert Erhard
1883 - 1959
Georg Kohl
1881 - 1952
Heinz-Udo Brachvogel
1889 - 1934
Johann Dreyschütz
1880 - 1959
Richard Ringelmann
1889 - 1965
Elisabeth Kitzinger
1881 - 1966
Theodor Harburger
1887 - 1949
Arthur Holzmann
1880 - 1969
Catharina Bäcker
1880 - 1902
Fritz Norkauer
1887 - 1976
Josef Gerum
1888 - 1963
Karl Viernstein
1884 - 1948
Siegfried Herrmann (Sportfunktionär)
1886 - 1971
Josef Stollreiter
1885 - 1975
Gustav Kelber
1881 - 1961
Max Rossmann (Maler)
1889 - 1961
Edwin Hauberrisser
1882 - 1964
Franz Landauer
1882 - 1943
Bertha Wiegandt
1889 - 1977
Hans Schwann
1884 - 1966
Rudolf von Heckel
1880 - 1947
Karl Götz (Politiker)
Born 1888
Hans Böhm (Politiker, 1882)
1882 - 1955
Ben Spanier
1887 - 1944
Georg Berlinger (Architekt, 1882)
1882 - 1946
Karl Weinberger (Bildhauer)
1885 - 1953
Paula Zell
1881 - 1963
Georg Karl (Politiker, 1882)
1882 - 1964
Ignaz Schön (Bürgermeister)
1882 - 1957
Klara Weich
1883 - 1970
Jenny Rauch
1880 - 1904
Kuno Herterich
1880 - 1928
Wilhelm Pschorr
1883 - 1958
Maximilian Schels
1889 - 1935
Karl Röhrle
1889 - 1965
Ignaz Landgraf
1884 - 1949
Carl Rückert
1883 - 1973
Hedwig Kämpfer
1889 - 1947
Hans List (Architekt)
1880 - 1941
Paul H. Wolff
1880 - 1955
Eugen von Tarnóczy
1886 - 1978
Anton Huber (Musiker)
1888 - 1966
Karl Zwengauer
1882 - 1943
Ludwig Wassermann
1885 - 1941
Emma von Hoesslin
1884 - 1968
Martin Höchstädter
1883 - 1973
Wilhelmine Lasser
1889 - 1963
Franz Nachtmann
1883 - 1942
Otto Max Gabriel Schlagintweit
1880 - 1956
Georg Halter
1884 - 1952
Martin Peuppus
1882 - 1965
Franz-Paul Lang
1886 - 1968
Norbert Krohmer
1889 - 1933