51.1836° N, 7.1984° E
REMSCHEID
Most Famous People Born in Remscheid, Germany
- Notable people
- 302
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1925
- Most distinctive
- Bank 10.2×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Remscheid during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Remscheid Is Known For
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Politician is Remscheid's biggest profession — 17% of all notables (50).
Remscheid over-indexes on bank — 10.2× the global rate.
Remscheid under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Remscheid's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Writing
- Sports
- Art & Design
- Business
- Other
Wilhelm Röntgen
1845 - 1923
Wolfgang Tillmans
Born 1968
Peter Brötzmann
Born 1941
Karl Michael Vogler
1928 - 2009
Gerd Arntz
1900 - 1988
Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt
1773 - 1854
Johann Peter Hasenclever
1810 - 1853
Lonny Kellner
1930 - 2003
Hans Bertram
1906 - 1993
Karl Jarres
1874 - 1951
Frank Plasberg
Born 1957
Christiane Soeder
Born 1975
Gabriele Gast
Born 1943
Ernst Lemmer
1898 - 1970
Nikolaos Ioannidis
Born 1994
Johannes Fastenrath
1839 - 1908
Floris Michael Neusüss
1937 - 2020
Artur Becker (Politiker)
1905 - 1938
Teo Otto
1904 - 1968
Christel Frese
Born 1944
Erich Engels
1889 - 1971
Adolf Clarenbach
1497 - 1529
Otto Kuhler
1894 - 1977
Richard Corts
1905 - 1974
Alexander Dercho
Born 1987
Klausbernd Vollmar
Born 1946
Reinhard Mannesmann
1856 - 1922
Petra Peters
1925 - 2004
Luca Vasta
Born 1988
Anna-Maria Gradante
Born 1976
Gottfried Duden
1789 - 1856
Reinhold F. Glei
Born 1959
Annette M. Böckler
Born 1966
Erich Becher
1882 - 1929
Fritz Windgassen
1883 - 1963
Sabine Thillaye
Born 1959
Farhad Hafezi
Born 1967
Gustav Sichelschmidt
1913 - 1996
Stephan Luckhaus
Born 1953
Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui
Born 1940
Wolfgang Seiler
Born 1940
Cataldo Cozza
Born 1985
Peter Plichta
Born 1939
Oscar Schlitter
1868 - 1939
Georg Wurth
Born 1972
Hans Stammreich
1902 - 1969
Ludwig Steil
1900 - 1945
Frank Schulz (footballer, born 1961)
Born 1961
Petra Ernstberger
Born 1955
Robert Stamm
1900 - 1937
Jörg Spengler
1938 - 2013
Christine Urspruch
Born 1970
Stephanie Ortwig
Born 1973
Christoph Keese
Born 1964
August Gissler
1857 - 1935
Hans Schwippert
1899 - 1973
Michael Keller (Schachkomponist)
Born 1949
Arnold Schmidt (Mathematiker)
1902 - 1967
Michelle Barthel
Born 1993
Axel Weishaupt
1945 - 2010
Christina Sampanidis
Born 1988
Hermann Schäfer (Politiker, 1892)
1892 - 1966
Gerd Ludwig Lemmer
1925 - 2016
Manfred Güllner
Born 1941
Ludwig Poullain
1919 - 2015
Jürgen Banscherus
Born 1949
Hans-Jürgen Berger
Born 1951
Michael Bacht
Born 1947
Wolf-Dieter Hasenclever
Born 1945
Otto Jungtow
1892 - 1961
Helga Tiemann
1917 - 2008
Viktor Agartz
1897 - 1964
Giovanni Cannata
Born 1985
Friedel Schuster
1903 - 1983
Walter Held
1910 - 1942
Wilhelm Girardet
1838 - 1918
Hermann Kaiser
1885 - 1945
Winfried Klepsch
Born 1956
Arthur Rehbein
1867 - 1952
Gisela Szagun
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Dirk Heckmann
Born 1960
Walther Peter Fuchs
1905 - 1997
Peter Jackisch
Born 1963
Alfred Hentzen
1903 - 1985
Dennis Herrmann
Born 1986
Uwe Anton
Born 1956
Annette von der Bey
Born 1965
Klaus-Heinrich Standke
Born 1935
Jonas Dassler
Born 1996
Arnd Adje Both
Born 1971
Kurt Jahncke
1898 - 1962
Erich Dinkler
1909 - 1981
Manfred Windfuhr
Born 1930
Gert von Kortzfleisch
1921 - 2007
Ina Wunn
Born 1954
Gustav Adolf Theill
1924 - 1997
Harry Luck
Born 1972
Sandra Ferger
Born 1991
Walter Freitag
1889 - 1958
Ulrich Thielemann
Born 1961
Curt Corrinth
1894 - 1960
Daniel Schürmann
1752 - 1838
Kurt Aram
1869 - 1934
Karl-Heinz Clasen
1883 - 1979
Max Kratz
1921 - 2000
Karl-Heinrich Hansmeyer
1929 - 2007
Friedrich Loew
1920 - 2018
Anne Marie Freybourg
Born 1952
Frank Benseler
Born 1929
Walter Kertz
1924 - 1997
Dirk Blasius
Born 1941
Otto-Felix Mannesmann
1874 - 1916
Günter Schütter
Born 1959
Jürgen Steinrücke
1959 - 2010
Wilhelm Denninger
1899 - 1973
Heinrich Alfred Kaiser
1883 - 1946
Carsten Pröpper
Born 1967
Christian Tornau
Born 1967
Albert Hackenberg
1852 - 1912
Hans Stosberg
1903 - 1989
Ulrike Schmidt
Born 1969
Hans Karl Schneider (Volkswirt)
1920 - 2011
Elisabeth Dicke
1884 - 1952
Kurt Pohlisch
1893 - 1955
Gerd Hanebeck
1939 - 2017
Antonio Vera
Born 1972
Karl Kleinjung
1912 - 2003
Sascha Lehnartz
Born 1969
Emil Lumbeck
1886 - 1979
Richard Hasenclever
1813 - 1876
Frowald Gil Hüttenmeister
Born 1938
Emil Lux
1918 - 2005
Hellmut Holthaus
1909 - 1966
Jürgen Suhr
Born 1959
Dieter Brozulat
Born 1943
Hellmut Becher
1896 - 1976
Bernhard Küster
Born 1967
Dierk Henning Schnitzler
Born 1937
Ernst Oberhoff
1906 - 1980
Ole Fischer (Maler)
1943 - 2005
Henrik Pfeifer
Born 1968
Paul Schladoth
1927 - 2012
Emil Lehnartz
1898 - 1979
Katharina Gast
Born 1984
Clemens Schaefer (Physiker)
1878 - 1968
Carsten Müller-Tidow
Born 1968
Klaus Küster
Born 1941
Wilhelm Keller (Politiker)
1866 - 1941
Heide Streiter-Buscher
Born 1938
Gus Anton
Born 1938
Adolf Müller (Politiker, 1916)
1916 - 2005
Ferdinand Möllmann
1791 - 1854
Hans Schmidt (Astronom)
1920 - 2003
Peter Tuckermann
1580 - 1651
Oskar Wingen
1889 - 1945
Rainer Bleek
Born 1954
Dieter Ruloff
Born 1947
Johann Arnold Halbach
1745 - 1823
Heinrich Maria Martin Schäfer
1879 - 1951
Stefan F. Winter (Mediziner)
1960 - 2018
Jochen Meißner (Autor)
Born 1966
Joachim Hoof
Born 1957
Dirk Diedrichs
Born 1963
Johann Gottfried Böker
1795 - 1860
Sven Wolf
Born 1976
Alfred Mannesmann
1859 - 1944
Johann Christian Josef Ommerborn
1863 - 1938
Nicole Rensmann
Born 1970
Karl-Friedrich Lüdemann
1912 - 1967
Peter Burggräf
Born 1980
Ludwig Erich Schmitt
1908 - 1994
Gustav Hermann Halbach
1882 - 1958
Adolf von der Nahmer
1866 - 1939
Moritz Böker
1853 - 1933
Horst Kläuser
Born 1956
Dieter Jandt
Born 1954
Margarete Sorg-Rose
Born 1960
Wilhelm Friedrich Laur
1858 - 1934
Axel Kolodziej
Born 1968
Richard Lindenberg
1869 - 1925
Gustave Goldenberg
1805 - 1871
Gustav Flohr
1895 - 1965
Reiner Nagel
Born 1959
Wilhelm Rödder
Born 1942
Ernst Siegfried Becher
1884 - 1926
Eckhard Plümacher
Born 1938
Carl Mannesmann
1861 - 1950
Bernhard Fluck
1935 - 2013
Katja von der Bey
Born 1962
Peter Scharmach
Born 1964
Wilhelm Aschenberg
1769 - 1819
Brigitte Desalm
1942 - 2002
Anneliese Lissner
1925 - 2008
Peter Wilhelm Brand
1900 - 1978
Albrecht Encke
Born 1935
Hildegard Spraul
Born 1941
Johannes Schenk (Pianist)
Born 1961
Johannes Zittartz
Born 1938
Johannes Adolph Ibach
1766 - 1848
Jorgo Schäfer
Born 1949
Günter Lesche
Born 1932
Max Hummeltenberg
1913 - 2004
Erich Küthe
1940 - 2003
Michael Watzke
Born 1973
Abdurrahman Kuyucu
Born 1991
Ewald Weisemann
1887 - 1963
Otto Lange (Politiker)
1878 - 1953
Karl Heinz Schröder (Verleger)
1929 - 2008
Johanna Brauweiler
1896 - 1989
Bruno Tetzner
1922 - 2008
Georg Hasenclever
1817 - 1904
Edgar Wiesemann
Born 1927
Hans Kadereit
Born 1935
Jean-Guillaume Goldenberg
1778 - 1858
Otto Rüdiger (Physiker)
1913 - 1998
Hartmut Siemes
Born 1937
Friedrich Paffrath
1896 - 1955
Wolfgang von der Nahmer
1906 - 1988
Elmar Fastenrath
Born 1934
Elfriede Wever
1900 - 1941
Karl Nastelski
1899 - 1972
Friedrich Jansen (Unternehmer)
1813 - 1870
Marlene von Gemmingen
1910 - 2003
Jörg Fritzsche
Born 1963
Christoph Barnbrock
Born 1975
Gerhard Pleiß
1915 - 1941
Otto Funke (Politiker)
1915 - 1997
Kurt Wüster
1925 - 1999
Otto Eichhorn
1884 - 1966
Ernst Sieper
1863 - 1916
Peter Kunz (Journalist)
Born 1962
Hans-Ulrich Everts
1937 - 2017
Richard von Hardt
1824 - 1898
Friedrich-Wilhelm Jakoby
1899 - 1967
Martha von Laffert
1883 - 1966
Frank Scherer
Born 1963
Gudrun Kopp (Politikerin, 1940)
Born 1940
Mirza Odabaşı
Born 1988
Gerd Burgmann
1922 - 1944
Rolf D. Gassen
Born 1942
Emil Oelbermann
1833 - 1897
Eduard Hager
1848 - 1901
Rolf vom Busch
1905 - 1940
Otto Dowidat
1896 - 1975
Adolf Benscheid
1888 - 1961
Ludwig Lemmer
1891 - 1983
Moritz Krume
Born 1994
Beate Wilding
Born 1956
Robert Schumacher (Politiker, 1936)
1936 - 1995
Maximilian Humpert
Born 1990
Ferdinand Hasenclever
1769 - 1831
Tim Weber (Squashspieler)
Born 1987
Klaus Budde
Born 1945
Christian Zech
Born 1961
Peter Truskowski
Born 1969
August Erbschloe
1850 - 1925
Werner Schommers
Born 1947
Ulrike Kaiser (Journalistin)
Born 1952
Johannes Behr
Born 1981
Waltraud Lehn
Born 1947
Armin Brinkmann
Born 1948
Ewald Funke
1905 - 1938
Robert Böker (Kaufmann)
1843 - 1912
Christine Herrmann
Born 1988
Arnold Wilhelm Hardt
1843 - 1897
Rainer Grieger
Born 1962
Roman Babik
Born 1981
Lutz Recknagel
Born 1966
Charlotte Ortmann
Born 1985
Klaus Winterhager
1929 - 2016
Cedric Pick
Born 1987
Constanze Fischbach
Born 1985
Peter Platte
Born 1952
Karl-Heinz Hagenau
1919 - 1993
Walter Pongs
Born 1911
Klaus Hofherr
1936 - 2015
Reinhard Siemes
1940 - 2011
Gustav Friedrich Bauer
1881 - 1968
Thomas Brill
Born 1967
Siegfried Reitz
1910 - 1999
Kirsten Flesch
Born 1957
Peter Wolf (Politiker, 1923)
1923 - 2000
Johann Arnold Bertram
1696 - 1762
August von Rospatt
1869 - 1942
Hermann Hardt
1866 - 1938
Elke Rühl
Born 1948
Helmut Güldner
1923 - 1977
Maximilian Peters
Born 1908
Arthur Oberberg
1888 - 1966
Else Nusch
1906 - 2003
Gustav Theill
1886 - 1963
Rudolf Clemens
1922 - 2000
Gustav Lenhartz
1810 - 1871
Fredy Mutz
1926 - 2001
Käthe Kalweit
1909 - 1950
Heinrich Hardt
1822 - 1889
Richard Pick (Politiker)
1857 - 1933
Karl Schröder (Politiker, 1913)
1913 - 1971
Maria Cleff
1869 - 1935
Hugo Isenburg
1866 - 1930