Düren
Düren ranks 1,117th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ogden, Utah, Loznica, and Bryansk. Memorable people born in Düren include Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, and Harald Schumacher. Memorable people who died in Düren include Karl Kreutzberg. Düren has been the birth place of many soccer players and mathematicians and the death place of many handball players. Düren is located in Germany.
Düren is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne, on the river Rur. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1805 and 1990, Düren was the birth place of 12 globally memorable people, including Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, and Harald Schumacher. Additionaly, 1 globally memorable people have passed away in Düren including Karl Kreutzberg.
People Born in Düren
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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
1805 - 1859
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 1
Hermann Heinrich Gossen
1810 - 1858
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 2
Harald Schumacher
1954 - Present
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 3
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
1939 - Present
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 4
Karl Lauterbach
1963 - Present
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 5
Max von Schillings
1868 - 1933
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 6
Georg Stollenwerk
1930 - 2014
HPI: 42.81
Rank: 7
Rudolf Schoeller
1902 - 1978
HPI: 41.74
Rank: 8
Wilfried Hannes
1957 - Present
HPI: 39.42
Rank: 9
Harald Konopka
1952 - Present
HPI: 38.45
Rank: 10
Gert Engels
1957 - Present
HPI: 38.20
Rank: 11
Christoph Moritz
1990 - Present
HPI: 25.85
Rank: 12
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Most individuals born in present day Düren were soccer players (7), mathematicians (1), economists (1), politicians (1), and musicians (1), while most who died were handball players (1).
Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Düren, including Harald Schumacher, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, and Georg Stollenwerk. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Düren, including Harald Schumacher, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, and Georg Stollenwerk.
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 5 globally memorable people born in Düren since 1700.
