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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.

Through the Centuries

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

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Actor is Munich's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (853).

Munich over-indexes on author3.7× the global rate.

Munich under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.

  1. Actor853
  2. Politician475
  3. Painter377
  4. Writer269
  5. Football239
  6. Academic208
  7. Author200
  8. Film166
  1. Author2003.7×
  2. Academic2083.2×
  3. Actor8532.5×
  4. Sculptor942.3×
  5. Painter3772.3×
  6. Film1662.1×
  7. Composer1291.5×
  8. Architect851.5×
  1. Football2390.3×
  2. Politician4750.6×

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.

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0004 FILM

Werner Herzog

Born 1942

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0005 FOOTBALL

Franz Beckenbauer

Born 1945

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0006 FILM

Michael Haneke

Born 1942

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0048 ARMY

Andreas Baader

1943 - 1977

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0049 SINGER

Heidi Brühl

1942 - 1991

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0057 POET

Denis Johnson

1949 - 2017

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0060 RUNNER

Frank Shorter

Born 1947

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0078 COMPOSER

Ralph Siegel

Born 1945

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0081 PLAYWRIGHT

Franz Xaver Kroetz

Born 1946

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0099 ACTOR

Fritz Wepper

Born 1941

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0101 FOOTBALL

Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck

Born 1948

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0104 SINGER

Fancy (singer)

Born 1946

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0116 BIOLOGIST

Georges J. F. Köhler

1946 - 1995

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0119 ACTOR

Günther Kaufmann

1947 - 2012

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0123 ACTOR

Konstantin Wecker

Born 1947

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0124 ACTOR

Irm Hermann

1942 - 2020

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0143 ACTOR

Chris Roberts (singer)

1944 - 2017

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0147 ACTOR

Uschi Obermaier

Born 1946

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0163 SKATER

Manfred Schnelldorfer

Born 1943

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0179 PHOTOGRAPHER

Hanne Darboven

1941 - 2009

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0180 POLITICIAN

Christian Ude

Born 1947

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0185 SOCIOLOGIST

Hans Joas

Born 1948

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0206 ACTOR

Jan Niklas

Born 1947

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0207 PROFESSOR

Wolf Singer

Born 1943

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0216 FILM

Willy Bogner Jr.

Born 1942

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0244 FASHION DESIGNER

Rudolph Moshammer

1940 - 2005

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0320 COMEDIAN

Gerhard Polt

Born 1942

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0348 SCULPTOR

Jürgen Partenheimer

Born 1947

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0359 COMPOSER

Lubomyr Melnyk

Born 1948

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0369 CONDUCTOR

Hansjörg Schellenberger

Born 1948

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0373 ACTOR

Beatrice Richter

Born 1948

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0410 COMIC

Gerhard Seyfried

Born 1948

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0417 WRITER

Savyon Liebrecht

Born 1948

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0419 COMPOSER

Peter Michael Hamel

Born 1947

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0443 FOOTBALL

Rudolf Brunnenmeier

1941 - 2003

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0450 POLITICIAN

Peter Gauweiler

Born 1949

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0464 ACTOR

Armin Meier (actor)

1943 - 1978

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0473 MANAGER

Bernd Pischetsrieder

Born 1948

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0488 PRESENTER

Carolin Reiber

Born 1940

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0497 COMPOSER

Ernst Horn

Born 1949

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0518 ACADEMIC

Wolfgang Sachs

Born 1946

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0576 GENETICIST

Martin Heisenberg

Born 1940

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0593 FILM

Jo Baier

Born 1949

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0595 SINGER

Ulla Wiesner

Born 1940

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0603 HISTORIAN

Marcus Junkelmann

Born 1949

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0610 SCREENWRITER

Hanns Christian Müller

Born 1949

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0617 ACTOR

Sepp Schauer

Born 1949

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0636 PROFESSOR

Klaus Buchner

Born 1941

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0649 MUSIC

Mani Neumeier

Born 1940

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0654 ACTOR

Gerd Anthoff

Born 1946

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0672 PHILOSOPHER

Peter Janich

1942 - 2016

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0673 PHOTOGRAPHER

Christian von Alvensleben

Born 1941

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0689 JOURNALIST

Maria von Welser

Born 1946

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0698 ACTOR

Eva Czemerys

1940 - 1996

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0701 PRESENTER

Fritz Egner

Born 1949

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0761 SCREENWRITER

Katja Rupé

Born 1949

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0784 HISTORIAN

Dan Diner

Born 1946

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0800 BIOLOGIST

Karl Stetter

Born 1941

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0812 FOOTBALL

Ludwig Bründl

Born 1946

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0814 SINGER

Wolfgang Brendel

Born 1947

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0838 ACADEMIC

Thomas Herzog

Born 1941

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0841 ART HISTORIAN

Lothar Ledderose

Born 1942

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0849 FOOTBALL

Ferdinand Keller (footballer)

Born 1946

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0873 ACTOR

Walter von Hauff

Born 1949

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0896 AUTHOR

Vera F. Birkenbihl

1946 - 2011

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0916 MATHEMATICIAN

Karin Reich

Born 1941

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0951 AUTHOR

Christina Voormann

Born 1946

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0963 WRITER

Georg Seeßlen

Born 1948

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0986 ACTOR

Gwendolyn von Ambesser

Born 1949

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0987 SINGER

Benzion Miller

Born 1946

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0989 WRITER

Felicitas Mayall

1947 - 2016

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1021 POLITICIAN

Kurt Faltlhauser

Born 1940

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1058 ACTOR

Maureen Kerwin

Born 1949

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1066 WRITER

Richard von Schirach

Born 1942

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1105 SOCIOLOGIST

Siegwart Lindenberg

Born 1941

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1107 FOOTBALL

Hans Rebele

Born 1943

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1163 PROFESSOR

Eberhart Zrenner

Born 1945

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1184 FOOTBALL

Alfred Heiß

Born 1940

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1206 WRITER

Wolfgang Schmidbauer

Born 1941

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1215 PRESENTER

Gerd Rubenbauer

Born 1948

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1243 ETHNOLOGIST

Georg Elwert

1947 - 2005

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1246 ACTOR

Frank Baumbauer

Born 1945

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1248 ILLUSTRATOR

Barbara von Johnson

Born 1942

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1252 JUDO

Paul Barth (judoka)

Born 1945

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1269 POLITICIAN

Otmar Bernhard

Born 1946

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1273 PHOTOGRAPHER

Mordechai Geldman

Born 1946

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1276 ACTOR

Bernd Helfrich

Born 1945

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1289 FOOTBALL

Adolf Kunstwadl

1940 - 2016

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1309 PUBLISHER

Gert Sudholt

Born 1943

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1319 POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Heubisch

Born 1946

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1351 ARTIST

Gisela Forster

Born 1946

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1357 PHYSICIST

Ikaros Bigi

Born 1947

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1370 ACTOR

Werner Zeussel

1941 - 2009

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1374 COMPOSER

Limpe Fuchs

Born 1941

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1389 HISTORIAN

Peter Schreiner (Byzantinist)

Born 1940

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1426 FOOTBALL

Manfred Amerell

1947 - 2012

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1448 AUTHOR

Ursula Isbel

Born 1942

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1472 POLITICIAN

Willi Piecyk

1948 - 2008

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1476 BIOCHEMIST

Dieter Oesterhelt

Born 1940

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1487 ACTOR

Christian Hoening

Born 1947

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1489 SKATER

Gerd Zimmermann (speed skater)

Born 1942

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1498 FILM

Rudolf Waldemar Brem

1948 - 2016

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1525 SCIENTIST

Ilona Kickbusch

Born 1948

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1537 PAINTER

Wolfgang Zelmer

Born 1948

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1546 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Michael Mackensen

Born 1949

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1589 FOOTBALL

Hans Reich

Born 1942

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1594 ACADEMIC

Joachim Lang (Rechtswissenschaftler)

1940 - 2018

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1596 ATHLETIC

Günther Nickel

Born 1946

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1632 HISTORIAN

Anton Posset

1941 - 2015

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1639 ROWER

Edith Eckbauer

Born 1949

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1640 SPORT

Rupert Kratzer

1945 - 2013

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1642 PAINTER

Anita Albus

Born 1942

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1664 FILM

John Thompson (Pornofilmproduzent)

Born 1945

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1708 MUSIC

Zither-Manä

Born 1947

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1709 ACTOR

Ilse Neubauer

Born 1942

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1712 WRITER

Irma Krauß

Born 1949

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1717 NOTARY

Peter Raue

Born 1941

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1723 LAWYER

Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth

1948 - 2010

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1725 ACADEMIC

Gabriele Winkler

Born 1940

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1754 ACTOR

Oliver Grimm

1948 - 2017

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1768 DIPLOMAT

A. Elizabeth Jones

Born 1948

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1790 POLITICIAN

Michael Kleiner

Born 1948

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1792 COMPOSER

Stefan Diestelmann

1949 - 2007

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1817 POLITICIAN

Herbert Frankenhauser

1945 - 2020

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1828 SINGER

Tom Netherton

1947 - 2018

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1829 AUTHOR

Walter Brandorff

1943 - 1996

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1833 FOOTBALL

Helmut Schmidt (footballer)

Born 1949

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1846 CARTOONIST

Jan Gulbransson

Born 1949

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1850 ACADEMIC

Hana Wirth-Nesher

Born 1948

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1864 JOURNALIST

Gisela Friedrichsen

Born 1945

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1899 CINEMA

Martin Schäfer (Kameramann)

1943 - 1988

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1911 ACADEMIC

Otto Steidle

1943 - 2004

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1916 CHEMIST

Florian Holsboer

Born 1945

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1945 ACADEMIC

Brigitte Schlieben-Lange

1943 - 2000

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1946 ACTOR

Michael König (Schauspieler)

Born 1947

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1949 ACTOR

Michael Brennicke

1949 - 2019

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1975 AUTHOR

Till Bastian

Born 1949

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1980 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Wolfgang Ismayr

Born 1942

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1996 LAWYER

Ernesto Pinto-Bazurco Rittler

Born 1946

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1999 PROFESSOR

Ilse Lenz

Born 1948

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2004 PHOTOGRAPHER

Anna Werner

Born 1941

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2034 ACTOR

Stephan Kayser

Born 1948

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2056 LAWYER

Alfred Dreier

1940 - 2011

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2071 ART HISTORIAN

Helmut Friedel

Born 1946

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2086 NEUROLOGIST

Karl Max Einhäupl

Born 1947

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2090 LAWYER

Christoph Degenhart

Born 1949

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2098 ACTOR

Tommy Kent

Born 1942

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2116 POLITICIAN

Herbert Ettengruber

Born 1941

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2128 MILITARY

Christian-Peter Friese

1948 - 1970

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2131 WRITER

Reinhard Wittmann

Born 1945

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2137 FOOTBALL

Hans Rigotti

Born 1947

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2141 HISTORIAN

Lucian Hölscher

Born 1948

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2146 ACTOR

Veronika Faber

Born 1945

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2169 WRITER

Michael Schulte (Schriftsteller)

1941 - 2019

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2188 ARTIST

Ugo Dossi

Born 1943

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2203 ACTOR

Hans Stadlbauer

Born 1945

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2209 AUTHOR

Tilmann Waldthaler

Born 1942

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2229 ROWER

Helmut Lebert

Born 1941

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2232 GERMANIST

Jürgen Wertheimer

Born 1947

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2247 ACTOR

Wolfi Fischer

Born 1941

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2251 ACTOR

Helga Neuner

Born 1940

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2272 HISTORIAN

Peter Claus Hartmann

Born 1940

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2286 ARTIST

Wolfram P. Kastner

Born 1947

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2287 GÄRTNER

Manfred Berger (Pädagoge)

Born 1944

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2292 PUBLISHER

Franz Greno

Born 1948

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2295 FILM

Lanz-Leo

1941 - 2016

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2296 JOURNALIST

Michael Graeter

Born 1941

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2307 ECONOMIST

Georg Schreyögg (Ökonom)

Born 1946

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2328 CINEMA

Fred Schuler

Born 1940

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2339 SCIENTIST

Manfred Spieker

Born 1943

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2397 ACTOR

Monika Schwarz

Born 1946

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2401 SCREENWRITER

Ulrich König

Born 1949

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2406 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Wilfried Menghin

1942 - 2013

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2408 WRITER

Gisela Schinzel-Penth

Born 1946

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2420 HISTORIAN

Wolfgang Krieger

Born 1947

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2437 JUDGE

Eckart Hien

Born 1942

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2451 PAINTER

Lambert Maria Wintersberger

1941 - 2013

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2458 PRIEST

Peter Neuner

Born 1941

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2464 SPORT

Gunther Cunningham

1946 - 2019

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2465 ACTOR

Wolfgang Zerlett

Born 1942

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2478 PRODUCER

Spencer Proffer

Born 1948

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2482 ACTOR

Götz Burger

Born 1947

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2491 PHYSICIST

Randolf Rodenstock

Born 1948

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2494 WRITER

René Cantagrel

Born 1946

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2500 ENTREPRENEUR

Ulrich L. Rohde

Born 1940

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2507 ACTOR

Claus Ringer

Born 1943

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2519 FILM

Wolfgang Panzer (Regisseur)

Born 1947

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2588 SLAVICIST

Leopold Auburger

Born 1941

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2613 COACH

Terry Liskevych

Born 1948

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2616 ENTREPRENEUR

Michael Ungethüm

Born 1943

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2623 SKIER

Willi Lesch

Born 1942

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2627 SINGER

Günter Edin

1941 - 2016

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2657 PHYSICIAN

Jürgen Weineck

1941 - 2020

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2673 BRUDER

Wolfgang Beck (Verleger)

Born 1941

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2695 HISTORIAN

Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein

Born 1940

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2702 ECONOMIST

Michael Hutter (Ökonom)

Born 1948

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2707 SINGER

Gabriele Clonisch

Born 1947

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2714 JOURNALIST

Jochen Kölsch

Born 1947

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2741 MUSIC

Peter Hanser-Strecker

Born 1942

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2746 ACTOR

Leopold Gmeinwieser

Born 1946

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2756 ART HISTORIAN

Harald Bodenschatz

Born 1946

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2791 PHOTOGRAPHER

Heinz Gebhardt

Born 1947

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2837 TRANSLATOR

Andrea Ott

Born 1949

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2851 PAINTER

Heinz Haberkorn

1943 - 2011

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2863 THEOLOGIAN

Karl-Ernst Apfelbacher

1940 - 2015

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2864 ACTOR

Nikol Voigtländer

Born 1940

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2869 BANK

Dieter Rampl

Born 1947

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2913 ACTOR

Monika Berg

Born 1942

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2917 POLITICIAN

Heinrich Traublinger

Born 1943

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2924 ILLUSTRATOR

Klaus Eberlein

Born 1941

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2926 ACADEMIC

Reinhard Strohm

Born 1942

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2948 LAWYER

Heinrich Honsell

Born 1942

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2964 CARICATURIST

Franz Eder (Karikaturist)

Born 1942

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3002 ACTOR

Anke Syring

Born 1944

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3035 FILM

Peter Zenk

Born 1943

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3055 ACADEMIC

Heinz Gerhäuser

Born 1946

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3069 ECONOMIST

Manfred J. Holler

Born 1946

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3072 ACTOR

Gundy Grand

Born 1948

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3092 PSYCHOLOGIST

Michael Frese

Born 1949

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3106 BERGSTEIGER

Hans Saler

Born 1947

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3192 ARTIST

Otto Göttler

Born 1948

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3195 BIOCHEMIST

Hans Steinhart

Born 1940

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3201 WRITER

Hans Ruland

1948 - 2006

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3208 PHYSICIST

Albrecht Wagner (Physiker)

Born 1941

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3210 ENTREPRENEUR

Walter Gunz

Born 1946

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3218 ACADEMIC

Friedrich G. Barth

Born 1940

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3219 AUTHOR

Monica von Rosen Nestler

Born 1943

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3232 ACADEMIC

Uwe Blaurock

Born 1943

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3247 TERRORIST

Bernhard Rössner

Born 1946

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3257 ACADEMIC

Walter Volpert

Born 1942

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3259 AUTHOR

Franziska Sperr

Born 1949

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3294 SCULPTOR

Jürgen Ferdinand Schlamp

Born 1942

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3344 HISTORIAN

Herbert Hofmeister

1945 - 1994

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3345 LAWYER

Manfred Brunner (Politiker)

1947 - 2018

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3349 SPORT

Gottfried Kustermann

Born 1943

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3353 POLITICIAN

Thomas Zimmermann (Politiker)

Born 1946

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3362 ARTIST

Christoph Krämer

1948 - 2010

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3368 PROFESSOR

Johann N. Schmidt

Born 1945

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3375 ORIENTALIST

Brigitte Moser-Weithmann

Born 1946

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3381 LAWYER

Jürgen Busse

Born 1949

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3384 PAINTER

Josef Hawle

Born 1948

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3386 ARTIST

Wolfgang Lauter

Born 1946

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3394 FENCER

Volker Duschner

Born 1945

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3395 PHYSICIST

Manfred Popp

Born 1941

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3396 GERMANIST

Ruprecht Wimmer

Born 1942

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3400 ACADEMIC

Claus Priesner

Born 1947

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3405 ACADEMIC

Hermann Jung (Musikhistoriker)

Born 1943

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3406 PHYSICIAN

Detlev Michael Albrecht

Born 1949

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3409 FILM

Rolf Kloepfer

Born 1942

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3417 PIANIST

Hermann Breuer

Born 1942

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3431 MUSIC

Gerd Uecker

Born 1946

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3433 ACADEMIC

Irmgard Merkt

Born 1946

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3444 HISTORIAN

Peter Weiß (Historiker)

Born 1943

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3447 ACTOR

Britta Fischer

Born 1944

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3449 POLITICIAN

Heiner Janik

1946 - 2015

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3455 LAWYER

Herbert Haller

Born 1940

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3458 MUSIC

Ingrid Sertso

Born 1944

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3468 ASTRONOMER

Peter Stättmayer

1945 - 2018

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3472 WRITER

Walter Staudinger (Unternehmer)

Born 1942

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3475 PHYSICIST

Peter Wölfle

Born 1942

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3481 POLITICIAN

Walter Schwenninger

1942 - 2010

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3485 AUTHOR

Konrad Heidkamp (Journalist)

1947 - 2009

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3488 HISTORIAN

Reinhard R. Heinisch

Born 1942

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3575 WRITER

Julia Edenhofer

1946 - 2018

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3602 ECONOMIST

Alfred Steinherr

Born 1944

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3619 CINEMA

Frank Brühne

1941 - 2017

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3623 MATHEMATICIAN

Michael Schneider (Mathematiker)

1942 - 1997

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3644 JOURNALIST

Rudolf Knoll (Weinkritiker)

Born 1947

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3657 AUTHOR

Horst Höfler

1948 - 2012

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3667 WRITER

Edwin Ortmann

Born 1941

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3670 MUSIC

Paul Schenly

Born 1948

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3682 RÄUBER

Hans Georg Rammelmayr

1940 - 1971

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3706 FILM

Birgitta Trommler

Born 1944

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3707 SCREENWRITER

Sylvia Ulrich

Born 1943

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3727 POLITICIAN

Alexander Prechtel

Born 1946

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3731 MODERATOR

Thomas Brennicke

1946 - 2007

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3744 ACADEMIC

Manfred Feilmeier

Born 1941

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3747 SPORT

Ulrich Schillinger

Born 1945

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3764 SCULPTOR

Klaus Vrieslander (Bildhauer)

1940 - 2019

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3788 WRITER

Gustl Angstmann

1947 - 1998

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3789 MUSIC

Klaus Werner Pusch

Born 1949

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3794 HISTORIAN

Rosa Reuthner

Born 1948

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3799 LAWYER

Georg Sandberger

Born 1940

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3811 WRITER

Evelyne Kolnberger

Born 1941

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3812 ILLUSTRATOR

Tilman Michalski

Born 1941

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3833 CINEMA

Bernd Heinl

Born 1947

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3835 OPERA

Wolfgang Probst

Born 1945

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3838 BIOLOGIST

Karl Eduard Linsenmair

Born 1940

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3850 WRITER

Gudrun Schaade

Born 1942

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3856 ACADEMIC

Gerhard Hausladen

Born 1947

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3863 ART HISTORIAN

Florens Felten

Born 1941

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3870 ACTOR

Sylvia Eisenberger

Born 1942

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3878 ACTOR

Luis Lamprecht

Born 1946

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3881 POLITICIAN

Angelika Graf

Born 1947

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3886 BANK

Josef Ambacher

1940 - 2012

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3891 ART HISTORIAN

Peter B. Steiner

Born 1942

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3893 AUTHOR

Reinhold Reitberger

Born 1946

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3898 THEOLOGIAN

Konrad Stock

Born 1941

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3899 MUSEUM DIRECTOR

Werner Loibl

1943 - 2014

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3909 ACADEMIC

Moris Lehner

Born 1949

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