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Jena ranks 856th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Halmstad, Brasília, and Smolensk. Memorable people born in Jena include Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Otto Günsche, and John B. Goodenough. Memorable people who died in Jena include Ruth Fuchs, Hermann Abendroth, and Johanna Schopenhauer. Jena has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many composers, and writers. Jena is located in Germany.

Jena is a city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a population of about 110,000. Jena is a centre of education and research. The University of Jena was founded in 1558 and had 18,000 students in 2017 and the Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena serves another 5,000 students. Furthermore, there are many institutes of the leading German research societies. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 1991, Jena was the birth place of 18 globally memorable people, including Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Otto Günsche, and John B. Goodenough. Additionaly, 25 globally memorable people have passed away in Jena including Ruth Fuchs, Hermann Abendroth, and Johanna Schopenhauer. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Jena than were born there.

People Born in Jena

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Jena were athletes (5), politicians (2), biologists (2), soccer players (2), and military personnels (1),  while most who died were composers (3), writers (3), physicists (3), chemists (3), and politicians (2).

Over the past 100 years, athletes have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Jena, including Ingrid Auerswald, Bärbel Struppert, and Beate Koch. Whereas, throughout history, athletes have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Jena, including Ingrid Auerswald, Bärbel Struppert, and Beate Koch.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 11 globally memorable people born in Jena since 1700.