Hamburg
Hamburg ranks 45th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Belgrade, Tbilisi, and Constantinople. Memorable people born in Hamburg include Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Heinrich Hertz. Memorable people who died in Hamburg include Georg Philipp Telemann, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Otto von Guericke. Hamburg has been the birth place of many athletes, and soccer players and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Hamburg is located in Germany.
Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and seventh-largest city in the European Union, with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the tenth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 0 and 2007, Hamburg was the birth place of 221 globally memorable people, including Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Heinrich Hertz. Additionaly, 122 globally memorable people have passed away in Hamburg including Georg Philipp Telemann, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Otto von Guericke.
People Born in Hamburg
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Johannes Brahms
COMPOSER
1833 - 1897
HPI: 85.79
Rank: 142
Felix Mendelssohn
COMPOSER
1809 - 1847
HPI: 83.51
Rank: 81
Heinrich Hertz
PHYSICIST
1857 - 1894
HPI: 82.34
Rank: 136
Karl Lagerfeld
FASHION DESIGNER
1933 - 2019
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 164
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
PHYSICIST
1887 - 1975
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 86
Otto Diels
CHEMIST
1876 - 1954
HPI: 76.26
Rank: 124
J. Hans D. Jensen
PHYSICIST
1907 - 1973
HPI: 76.08
Rank: 127
Helmut Schmidt
POLITICIAN
1918 - 2015
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 71
James Franck
PHYSICIST
1882 - 1964
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 85
Ernst Thälmann
POLITICIAN
1886 - 1944
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 134
Peter Behrens
ARCHITECT
1868 - 1940
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 126
Fanny Mendelssohn
COMPOSER
1805 - 1847
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 87
Newly Added People Born in Hamburg
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John Yeboah
SOCCER PLAYER
2000 - Present
HPI: 38.89
Rank: 59
Miriam Butkereit
WRESTLER
1994 - Present
HPI: 35.51
Rank: 60
Zhi-Gin Lam
SOCCER PLAYER
1991 - Present
HPI: 34.35
Rank: 62
Delara Burkhardt
POLITICIAN
1992 - Present
HPI: 34.32
Rank: 61
Igor Matanović
SOCCER PLAYER
2003 - Present
HPI: 33.81
Rank: 57
People Deceased in Hamburg
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Georg Philipp Telemann
COMPOSER
1681 - 1767
HPI: 79.39
Rank: 77
Stuart Sutcliffe
MUSICIAN
1940 - 1962
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 83
Otto von Guericke
PHYSICIST
1602 - 1686
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 46
Walther von Brauchitsch
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1881 - 1948
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 113
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
COMPOSER
1714 - 1788
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 79
Helmut Schmidt
POLITICIAN
1918 - 2015
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 27
Frederick VIII of Denmark
POLITICIAN
1843 - 1912
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 18
Pope Benedict V
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
930 - 965
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 23
Aby Warburg
HISTORIAN
1866 - 1929
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 47
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
WRITER
1724 - 1803
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 19
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1870 - 1964
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 41
Philipp Otto Runge
PAINTER
1777 - 1810
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 21
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Hamburg were athletes (37), soccer players (31), politicians (20), actors (19), and writers (15), while most who died were writers (16), politicians (14), actors (13), athletes (12), and composers (11).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Hamburg, including Uwe Seeler, Andreas Brehme, and Stefan Effenberg. Whereas, throughout history, athletes have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Hamburg, including Karl Hein, Oscar Goßler, and Carl Goßler.
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Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Hamburg since 1700.
