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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.
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- Field: Painter Clear ×
Eduard Merk
1816 - 1888
Arnulf de Bouché
1872 - 1945
Eduard Heinel (Maler)
1835 - 1895
Adalbert Wex
1867 - 1932
Waldemar Kolmsperger der Jüngere
1881 - 1954
Bernhard Fröhlich
1823 - 1885
Hermine Biedermann-Arendts
1855 - 1916
Luitpold Faustner
1845 - 1925
Eugen Hess
1824 - 1862
Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiß
1730 - 1814
Wilhelm Melchior
1817 - 1860
Fritz van der Venne
1873 - 1936
Hannes Bertle
1910 - 1978
Adolf Klingshirn
1890 - 1972
Reiner Kallhardt
Born 1933
Hans Reiffenstuel
1894 - 1980
Christian Burckhardt
1856 - 1943
Hans Walter Kivelitz
Born 1927
Ludwig Neustätter
1829 - 1899
Johann Dreyschütz
1880 - 1959
Alphons Bodenmüller
1847 - 1886
Bina Daigeler
Born 1965
Hubert Haider (Maler)
1879 - 1971
Emil Böhm
1873 - 1958
Heinz Seeber
1930 - 1998
Nadine Wittig
Born 1964
Ludwig G’schrey
1907 - 2002
Joseph Anton Sedlmayr
1797 - 1863
Karl Kaltenmoser
1853 - 1923
Max Rossmann (Maler)
1889 - 1961
Hans Schrötter von Kristelli
1891 - 1965
Anton Marxmüller
1898 - 1984
Joseph Melchior
1810 - 1883
Bertha Wiegandt
1889 - 1977
Cajetan Schweitzer
1844 - 1913
Christian Steinicken
1831 - 1896
Hermann Sagstätter
1808 - 1883
Max Köppen (Maler)
1877 - 1960
Alinde Rothenfußer
Born 1940
Susanne Praetorius
Born 1961
Albert Kaltenmoser
1844 - 1871
Karl Keck (Maler)
1893 - 1930
Friedrich Horschelt (Maler)
1824 - 1881
Arthur Hirth
1875 - 1936
Josef Rösl
1853 - 1938
Martin Stachl
1914 - 1997
Hermann Kegel
1913 - 2004
Carl Schlotthauer
Born 1803
Max Fuhrmann der Jüngere
1891 - 1953
Wilhelm Fernbach
1826 - 1884
Eugen Rosenfeld
1870 - 1953
Kuno Herterich
1880 - 1928
Matthias Zimprecht
1624 - 1680
Maximilian Schels
1889 - 1935
Carl le Feubure
1847 - 1911
Alois Streicher
1892 - 1978
Albert Fischer (Maler)
1940 - 2003
Willy Reichert (Maler)
Born 1937
Julius Mermagen
1874 - 1954
Paul H. Wolff
1880 - 1955
Eugen von Tarnóczy
1886 - 1978
Conrad Melperger
1563 - 1638
Charles Gottfried Bunge
1920 - 1964
Joseph Peter Bockhorni
1832 - 1905
Z-ROK
Born 1966
Toni Danzer
1891 - 1951
Hans von Poschinger
1892 - 1951
Franziska Fuchs
Born 1945
Albrecht Riezler
1856 - 1935
Angelo Quaglio the Elder
1784 - 1815
Alois Scharl
1922 - 1994
F. W. Friederich
1912 - 1993
Ernst-Moritz Werndl-Schollenried
1893 - 1989
Willy Wenz
1893 - 1971
Fritz Hass (Maler, 1902)
1902 - 1994
Erich Niedmann
1868 - 1905
Norbert Krohmer
1889 - 1933