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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 2000s Clear ×
Nico Liersch
Born 2000
Sophia Flörsch
Born 2000
Karim Adeyemi
Born 2002
Anand Batbileg
Born 2001
Ella Frey
Born 2004
Harriet Herbig-Matten
Born 2003
Jule Hermann
Born 2004
Sami Herzog
Born 2000
Stella Pepper
Born 2004
Rafael Koussouris
Born 2002
Nike Seitz
Born 2004
Florian Burgkart
Born 2000
Anastasia C. Zander
Born 2005
Nico Mantl
Born 2000
Lenny Den Dooven
Born 2000
Ashleigh Fay Pittaway
Born 2000
Lorenzo Germeno
Born 2004