52.4003° N, 13.0678° E
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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Matthias Platzeck
Born 1953
Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel
1921 - 2007
Trude Mohr
1902 - 1989
Max Dortu
1826 - 1849
Steffen Reiche
Born 1960
Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick
1797 - 1882
Richard W. Guenther
1845 - 1913
Detlef Kühn
Born 1936
Saskia Ludwig
Born 1968
Hans-Karl Koch
1897 - 1934
Alexander Graf zu Dohna-Schlodien
1876 - 1944
Max Heldt
1872 - 1933
Nico Marquardt
Born 1994
Claus-Joachim von Heydebreck
1906 - 1985
Carl-Christoph Schweitzer
1924 - 2017
Karl von Ingersleben
1753 - 1831
Romanov Roman
Born 1972
Klara Geywitz
Born 1976
Gustav-Adolf Gedat
1903 - 1971
Klaus Klingner
Born 1935
Andrea Wicklein
Born 1958
Wilhelm von Bismarck-Briest
1803 - 1877
Stefan Hein
Born 1984
Wilhelm von Brauchitsch
1820 - 1884
Maximilian Rogge
1866 - 1940
Jens Krumpe
Born 1978
Berthold von Ploetz
1844 - 1898
Hanna Gerig
1900 - 1991
Heinz Karl Behrendt
1913 - 2003
Ernst von Wedel
1844 - 1910
Georg von Massenbach
1799 - 1885
Steeven Bretz
Born 1976
Hans Encke
1896 - 1976
Friedrich Rogge
1867 - 1932
Charlotte Welm
Born 1923
Friedrich Julius Kieschke
1819 - 1895
Otto von Schlieffen
1821 - 1897
Wolf von Gersdorff
1867 - 1949
Johannes Vogt
1872 - 1937
Franz Seume
1903 - 1982
Richard Jaehne
1858 - 1905
Friedrich von Schenck (Politiker)
1822 - 1887
Hermann Dropmann
1890 - 1957
Wilhelm Schulz (Politiker, 1870)
1870 - 1920
Isabel Siebert
Born 1977
Uwe Klett
Born 1959
Heinrich Leopold August von Blumenthal
1765 - 1830
Angelika Thiel-Vigh
Born 1956
Klaus-Jürgen Warnick
Born 1952
Franziska Latta
Born 1984
Gregor Hoffmann
Born 1970
Klaus Lattmann
1923 - 2016
Andy Jauch
Born 1976
Else Bauer
1893 - 1950
Gustav Borgmann
1838 - 1908
Günter Grell (Journalist)
1926 - 1952
Knut Sandler
Born 1943
Gunild Lattmann-Kretschmer
Born 1936
Sibylle Bock
Born 1954
Kurt Stahl
1901 - 1944
Peter Muschalla
Born 1942
Erwin Hinze
1909 - 1972
Rainer Giesel
Born 1942
Heiko Frank Scholz
Born 1962
Hans-Georg Großmann
1901 - 1976
Peter Boroffka
1932 - 1999
Carl Heinrich Poppenburg
1811 - 1869
Erwin Köhler
1901 - 1951