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WEIMAR
Most Famous People Born in Weimar, Germany
- Notable people
- 536
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1879
- Most distinctive
- Duke 48.6×
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Weimar during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Weimar Is Known For
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Politician is Weimar's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (52).
Weimar over-indexes on duke — 48.6× the global rate.
Weimar under-produces football — only 0.1× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Weimar's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
1714 - 1788
Carl Zeiss
1816 - 1888
August von Kotzebue
1761 - 1819
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
1710 - 1784
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1811 - 1890
Herbert Kroemer
Born 1928
Wolfgang Hohlbein
Born 1953
Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1757 - 1828
Lothar-Günther Buchheim
1918 - 2007
Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1818 - 1901
Sibylle Berg
Born 1962
Bernard of Saxe-Weimar
1604 - 1639
Ludwig Bechstein
1801 - 1860
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1783 - 1853
Friedrich Justin Bertuch
1747 - 1822
Christiane Vulpius
1765 - 1816
Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792–1862)
1792 - 1862
Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
1562 - 1602
Thomas Thieme
Born 1948
William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1876 - 1923
Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
1570 - 1605
Christian August Vulpius
1762 - 1827
Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1688 - 1748
Matthias Goerne
Born 1967
Christine Lieberknecht
Born 1958
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
1712 - 1774
Salomon Franck
1659 - 1725
Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1737 - 1758
Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
1603 - 1669
Gerhard Gundermann
1955 - 1998
Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808–1877)
1808 - 1877
Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato
1839 - 1885
Karoline Jagemann
1777 - 1848
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach
1715 - 1739
Oscar Schlömilch
1823 - 1901
Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt
1854 - 1925
Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar
1696 - 1715
Ella Endlich
Born 1984
Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
1664 - 1707
Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1849 - 1922
Adolf von Donndorf
1835 - 1916
Sascha Anderson
Born 1953
Margaret of Thuringia
1449 - 1501
John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
1634 - 1686
John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
1627 - 1683
Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena
1638 - 1678
Carl Werner
1808 - 1894
Amalia von Helvig
1776 - 1831
Walther von Goethe
1818 - 1885
Marie Gutheil-Schoder
1874 - 1935
Helene Böhlau
1859 - 1940
Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844–1894)
1844 - 1894
Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar
1740 - 1786
Hermann Emminghaus
1845 - 1904
Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
1632 - 1668
Maria of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania
1515 - 1583
Ferdinand Jagemann
1780 - 1820
Otto Schrader (philologist)
1855 - 1919
Johann Sebastiani
1622 - 1683
Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1786 - 1816
Gottfried Osann
1796 - 1866
Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Weimar, Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz
1641 - 1675
Franz Horny
1798 - 1824
Anna Blässe
Born 1987
Princess Elisabeth Sybille of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1854 - 1908
Jörg Jarnut
Born 1942
Friedrich Baumbach
Born 1935
Marcus Behmer
1879 - 1958
Peter Gülke
Born 1934
Johann Christian Lobe
1797 - 1881
August von Froriep
1849 - 1917
Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg
1587 - 1645
Harald von Hirschfeld
1912 - 1945
Marga Faulstich
1915 - 1998
Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof
Born 1939
August von Goethe
1789 - 1830
Giovanni Mardersteig
1892 - 1977
Marcus Urban
Born 1971
Carl Hummel
1821 - 1907
Harald G. Petersson
1904 - 1977
Joannes Aurifaber (Vimariensis)
1519 - 1575
Reinhard Hauke
Born 1953
Karl Rathgen
1856 - 1921
Maria, Abbess of Quedlinburg
1571 - 1610
Uziel Gal
1923 - 2002
Fritz Schöll
1850 - 1919
Max Koecher
1924 - 1990
Karl von Fritsch
1838 - 1906
Princess Bernardina Christina Sophia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1724 - 1757
Manfred Matuschewski
Born 1939
Heike Warnicke
Born 1966
Anna Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg
1657 - 1704
Paul Laux
1887 - 1944
Frank Möller (judoka)
Born 1970
Karl Scheidemantel
1859 - 1923
Wolfgang Müller-Lauter
1924 - 2001
Emil Huschke
1797 - 1858
Hans Tutschku
Born 1966
Traugott Maximilian Eberwein
1775 - 1831
Carl Eberwein
1786 - 1868
Richard Kiepert
1846 - 1915
Wolfgang Benkert
Born 1951
Julian Börner
Born 1991
Rudolf Schöll
1844 - 1893
Fritz von Wille
1860 - 1941
Hans-Peter von Kirchbach
Born 1941
Emil Osann
1787 - 1842
Tanja Lasch
Born 1975
Peter Finger
Born 1954
Walburga Gmür
1901 - 1974
Prince Frederick Ferdinand Constantin of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1758 - 1793
Mark Hauptmann
Born 1984
Thilo Schoder
1888 - 1979
Martina Schröter
Born 1960
Michael Schneider (organiste)
1909 - 1994
Erich Wiesner
1897 - 1968
Andrejs Vlascenko
Born 1974
Eroc
Born 1951
Friedrich Preller the Younger
1838 - 1901
Ernst August von Göchhausen
1740 - 1824
Otto Schwarz (Botaniker)
1900 - 1983
Sigurd Lohde
1899 - 1977
August Förster (physician)
1822 - 1865
Reinhold Köhler
1830 - 1892
Udo Undeutsch
1917 - 2013
Constanze Moser-Scandolo
Born 1965
Hans Gerhard Gräf
1864 - 1942
Bernd Schwarzer
Born 1954
Johann Traugott Leberecht Danz
1769 - 1851
Johann von Böber
1746 - 1820
Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer
1910 - 1975
Burkhard Gotthelf Struve
1671 - 1738
Alma von Goethe
1827 - 1844
Karl von Heygendorff
1806 - 1895
Karl von Seebach
1839 - 1878
Charlotte Flemming
1920 - 1993
Wilhelm Stumpf
1873 - 1926
Eduard Genast
1797 - 1866
Juliane Korén
1951 - 2018
Julia Großner
Born 1988
Klaus Hortschansky
1935 - 2016
Alexander Winterberger
1834 - 1914
Edwin Redslob
1884 - 1973
Andreas Oswald
1634 - 1665
Martin Unrein
1901 - 1972
Holger Runge
Born 1925
Friedrich Gotthilf Osann
1794 - 1858
Ute Freudenberg
Born 1956
Paul Francke (architect)
1537 - 1615
Martin Hermann (Mathematiker)
Born 1949
Thomas Vogel (footballer, born 1965)
Born 1965
Max Schmid-Burgk
1860 - 1925
Holger Mahlich
Born 1945
Hans Muthesius
1885 - 1977
Alfred Götze
1865 - 1948
Angelica Facius
1806 - 1887
Jobus Fincelius
Died 1582
Bernhard Neutsch
1913 - 2002
Johann Gottfried Hasse
1759 - 1806
Johann Samuel Drese
1644 - 1716
Heinrich Schmidt (Schauspieler, 1779)
1779 - 1857
Otto Schwerdgeburth
1835 - 1866
August Wilhelm Dennstedt
1776 - 1826
Hans Wislicenus
1864 - 1939
Daniel Schumann
Born 1977
Helmut Gauß
Born 1944
Claudia Geisler-Bading
Born 1966
Friedrich Martersteig
1814 - 1899
Siegmund von Suchodolski
1875 - 1935
Friedrich Brauell
1807 - 1882
Basilius Monner
1500 - 1566
Helmut Müller-Lankow
1928 - 2006
Amalie Winter
1803 - 1879
Hermann Schaeffer
1824 - 1900
Andrea Hanna Hünniger
Born 1984
Ernestina Albertina di Sassonia-Weimar
1722 - 1769
William Marshall (Zoologe)
1845 - 1907
Hans Vent
1934 - 2018
Franziska Schultze
1805 - 1864
Johann Moritz Richter
1620 - 1667
Karl Eckermann
1834 - 1891
Rosa von Milde
1827 - 1906
Peter D. Krause
Born 1964
Wilhelm Ernst Weber
1780 - 1850
Jean Zewalt Triemer
1700 - 1762
Friedrich von Esebeck
1870 - 1951
Gustav Schmidt (Komponist, 1816)
1816 - 1882
Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann
1761 - 1835
Max Wislicenus
1861 - 1957
Dagmar Dempe
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Holger Franke (Schauspieler, 1942)
Born 1942
Hendrik Arnst
Born 1950
Katherina Lange
Born 1963
Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1878–1900)
1878 - 1900
Benjamin Kramme
Born 1982
Robert Keil
1826 - 1894
Detlef Pollack
Born 1955
Wolfgang Maximilian von Goethe
1820 - 1883
Albert Stutzer
1849 - 1923
Ilka Teichmüller
Born 1970
Wilhelm von und zu Egloffstein
1853 - 1925
August Jacob Liebeskind
1758 - 1793
Wilhelmine-Christine de Saxe-Weimar
1658 - 1712
Helmut Lander
1924 - 2013
Franz Hübotter
1881 - 1967
Johann Wilhelm Neumair von Ramsla
1572 - 1641
Heinrich Ulmann
1841 - 1931
Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch
1939 - 2020
Serhiy Kulchytsky
1963 - 2014
Otto von Plüskow
1852 - 1925
Robert Härtel
1831 - 1894
Arnold Waldschmidt
1873 - 1958
Rolf Ripperger
1928 - 1975
Evelyn Fischer (Sängerin)
Born 1964
Martin Kirchner (Politiker)
Born 1949
Ivo Kortlang
Born 1994
Silke Satjukow
Born 1965
Jutta Hecker
1904 - 2002
Willi Neuenhahn
1928 - 1993
Karl Georg Schmidt (Politiker)
1904 - 1940
Hans Constantin Paulssen
1892 - 1984
Karl Walter Sprungala
Born 1957
Wolf von Kalckreuth
1887 - 1906
Andreï Kartapolov
Born 1963
Wolfram Dette
Born 1951
Christian Romstet
1640 - 1721
Stephan Suschke
Born 1958
Adelheid von Schorn
1841 - 1916
Jörg Simmat
Born 1959
Wolfgang Held (Schriftsteller, 1930)
1930 - 2014
Christa Schuenke
Born 1948
Wilhelm Gerhard
1780 - 1858
Thomas Reimann
Born 1953
Karl Ludwig Reimann
1804 - 1872
Edith von Voigtländer
1892 - 1978
Johannes von Schröter
1513 - 1593
Manfred Heine
1932 - 2019
August Ernst Zinserling
1780 - 1831
Volker Mauersberger
Born 1939
Auguste Götze
1840 - 1908
Christian Rosenau
Born 1980
Bettina Hürlimann
1909 - 1983
Volkmar Muthesius
1900 - 1979
Günter Apel
1927 - 2007
Max Martersteig
1853 - 1926
Simone Raatz
Born 1962
Hans Werner (Regisseur)
Born 1950
Arne Effenberger
Born 1942
Reinhard Urbach
Born 1939
Hermann Apelt
1876 - 1960
Anastassija Igorewna Tokarewa
Born 1986
Moritz Müller (Theologe)
1806 - 1886
Ottofritz Gaillard
1915 - 2006
Ruprecht Düll
1931 - 2014
Hans-Joachim Löser
1918 - 2001
Hermann Uhde-Bernays
1873 - 1965
Hans Michel (Grafiker)
1920 - 1996
René Halkett
1900 - 1983
Karl Gotthelf Müller
1717 - 1760
Wolfgang Soergel (Paläontologe)
1887 - 1946
Stefan Brandt
Born 1976
Golo Berg
Born 1968
Gerd Sonntag (Künstler)
Born 1954
Ulrich Barnickel
Born 1955
Karl Alexander Brendel
1877 - 1945
Nancy Hünger
Born 1981
Hans-Dietrich Kahlke
1924 - 2017
Ernst-Andreas Ziegler
Born 1938
Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1911–1988)
1911 - 1988
Ernst Devrient
1873 - 1948
Heinz Hellmich (Schauspieler)
1924 - 2009
Thomas Hartung (Politiker)
Born 1970
Horst de Marées
1896 - 1988
Bernhard von Zech (Minister)
1649 - 1720
Paul Michaelis (Maler)
1914 - 2005
Matthias Bätzel
Born 1966
Lena Ladig
Born 1994
Karl Wilhelm von Fritsch
1769 - 1850
Johannes Wittich
1537 - 1596
Karl Friedrich Weber
1794 - 1861
Georg Haar
1887 - 1945
Hanns Floerke
1875 - 1944
Karl Ernst Schmid
1774 - 1852
Paul Slevogt
1596 - 1655
Till Sailer
Born 1942
Holger Zürch
Born 1967
Franz Lichtenstein
1852 - 1884
Andreas Paeslack
Born 1966
Nikolaus Rost
1542 - 1622
Bernhard Friedrich Voigt
1787 - 1859
Carl Bertuch
1777 - 1815
Ulrike Liedtke
Born 1958
Frank Willmann (Autor)
Born 1963
Ludwig Wieland
1777 - 1819
Eckart Krumbholz
1937 - 1994
Ulrich Hoyer
1938 - 2020
Alexander von Szpinger
1889 - 1969
Gustav Grabolle
Born 1993
Johann Gottfried Körner
1726 - 1785
Anke Lutz
Born 1970