The Most Famous
Swimmers from Germany
Trending Swimmers from Germany This Week
The top 10 Swimmers from Germany trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1
Franziska van Almsick
b. 1978
Trending in German (#104) Wikipedia (2,039 views, on Apr 10).
This page contains a list of the greatest Germans Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 709 Swimmers, 89 of which were born in Germany. This makes Germany the birth place of the 3rd most number of Swimmers behind United States and Australia.
Top 10 German Swimmers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Germans Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Germans Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Germans Swimmers.
- #1
Kornelia Ender
b. 1958
HPI 59.2030 langsEast German swimmer
- #2
Roland Matthes
1950 - 2019
HPI 58.8431 langsGerman swimmer
- #3
Otto Fahr
1892 - 1969
HPI 57.9617 langsswimmer (1892–1969)
- #4
Barbara Krause
b. 1959
HPI 57.6427 langsEast German swimmer
- #5
Erich Rademacher
1901 - 1979
HPI 57.2419 langsGerman swimmer
- #6
Hilde Schrader
1910 - 1966
HPI 57.1922 langsGerman swimmer
- #7
Emil Rausch
1883 - 1954
HPI 57.0920 langsswimmer (1883–1954)
- #8
Georg Zacharias
1884 - 1953
HPI 56.3018 langsGerman swimmer (1884–1953)
- #9
Ulrike Richter
b. 1959
HPI 54.9122 langsEast German swimmer
- #10
Andrea Pollack
1961 - 2019
HPI 54.2927 langsEast German swimmer
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Germans Swimmers grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
2000s(8)
1990s(27)
1980s(11)
1970s(12)
1960s(16)
1910s(1)
1900s(1)
1890s(2)
Overlapping Lives
Which Swimmers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 11 most globally memorable Swimmers since 1700.
