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POTSDAM
Most Famous People Born in Potsdam, Germany
- Notable people
- 899
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1911
- Most distinctive
- Leutnant 39.1×
The Prussian royal seat, and the numbers still march in uniform: the Leutnant bench runs at nearly forty times the German baseline, Generalmajor at thirty, and Prince at fourteen — Sanssouci and the Hohenzollern parade ground written into the demographic record. The postwar pivot is quieter but visible in the Academic and Diplomat lines, the research institutes and the Einstein Tower physics that replaced the crown.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Potsdam during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Potsdam Is Known For
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Actor is Potsdam's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (95).
Potsdam over-indexes on leutnant — 39.1× the global rate.
Potsdam under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Potsdam's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Egon Eiermann
1904 - 1970
Friedrich Ludwig Persius
1803 - 1845
Andreas Ludwig Krüger
1743 - 1822
Albert Dietrich Schadow
1797 - 1869
Michael Philipp Boumann
1747 - 1803
Reinhold Persius
1835 - 1912
Max Bertram
1849 - 1914
Adolphus Heiman
1809 - 1862
Ernst Petzholtz
1839 - 1904
Hermann Ziller (Architekt)
1844 - 1915
Nikolaus Kuhnert
Born 1939
Georg Friedrich von Boumann
1737 - 1812
Carl Ernst Heinrich Ziller
1832 - 1866
Paul F. Knochenhauer
1858 - 1888
Emil Kopp (Architekt)
1848 - 1928
Dietrich Garski
Born 1931