Frankfurt
Frankfurt ranks 76th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Osaka Prefecture, Gothenburg, and Dresden. Memorable people born in Frankfurt include Anne Frank, Erich Fromm, and Charles the Bald. Memorable people who died in Frankfurt include Clara Schumann, Louis the German, and Max Scheler. Frankfurt has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Frankfurt is located in Germany.
Frankfurt am Main is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the foreland of the Taunus on its namesake Main, it forms a continuous conurbation with Offenbach am Main; its urban area has a population of over 2.7 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.8 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region and the fourth biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Frankfurt is one of the de facto four main capitals of the European Union, as it is home to the European Central Bank, one of the institutional seats of the European Union, while Frankfurt's central business district lies about 90 km (56 mi) northwest of the geographic center of the EU at Gadheim in Lower Franconia. Like France and Franconia, the city is named after the Franks. Frankfurt is the largest city in the Rhenish Franconian dialect area. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 823 and 1999, Frankfurt was the birth place of 135 globally memorable people, including Anne Frank, Erich Fromm, and Charles the Bald. Additionaly, 71 globally memorable people have passed away in Frankfurt including Clara Schumann, Louis the German, and Max Scheler.
People Born in Frankfurt
Go to all RankingsAnne Frank
WRITER
1929 - 1945
HPI: 81.28
Rank: 1
Erich Fromm
PSYCHOLOGIST
1900 - 1980
HPI: 76.71
Rank: 2
Charles the Bald
POLITICIAN
823 - 877
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 3
Theodor W. Adorno
SOCIOLOGIST
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 4
Erik Erikson
PSYCHOLOGIST
1902 - 1994
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 5
Otto Hahn
CHEMIST
1879 - 1968
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 6
Hans Zimmer
COMPOSER
1957 - Present
HPI: 70.95
Rank: 7
Friedrich Carl von Savigny
HISTORIAN
1779 - 1861
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 8
Otto Frank
BUSINESSPERSON
1889 - 1980
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 9
Henri Nestlé
BUSINESSPERSON
1814 - 1890
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 10
Otto Loewi
PHYSICIAN
1873 - 1961
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 11
Karl Schwarzschild
PHYSICIST
1873 - 1916
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Frankfurt
Go to all RankingsEugen Weidmann
EXTREMIST
1908 - 1939
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 33
Johannes Lingelbach
PAINTER
1622 - 1674
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 48
Karl Binding
LAWYER
1841 - 1920
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 50
Carl Graebe
CHEMIST
1841 - 1927
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 58
Richard Goldschmidt
BIOLOGIST
1878 - 1958
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 61
Camilla Horn
ACTOR
1903 - 1996
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 62
Wolfgang Flür
MUSICIAN
1947 - Present
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 65
Ernst Hartwig
ASTRONOMER
1851 - 1923
HPI: 49.11
Rank: 67
Mathilde Marchesi
SINGER
1821 - 1913
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 74
Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1801 - 1869
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 75
Oscar Kreuzer
TENNIS PLAYER
1887 - 1968
HPI: 45.80
Rank: 82
Liselott Linsenhoff
ATHLETE
1927 - 1999
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 90
People Deceased in Frankfurt
Go to all RankingsClara Schumann
MUSICIAN
1819 - 1896
HPI: 76.49
Rank: 1
Louis the German
POLITICIAN
806 - 876
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 2
Max Scheler
PHILOSOPHER
1874 - 1928
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 3
Paul Hindemith
COMPOSER
1895 - 1963
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 4
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
BIOLOGIST
1804 - 1881
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 5
Louis the Child
POLITICIAN
893 - 911
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 6
Louis the Younger
POLITICIAN
835 - 882
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 7
Hanna Reitsch
PILOT
1912 - 1979
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 8
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
PAINTER
1805 - 1873
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 9
Richard Baer
POLITICIAN
1911 - 1963
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 10
Ivan Rebroff
SINGER
1931 - 2008
HPI: 62.14
Rank: 11
Sophia of Prussia
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1870 - 1932
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Frankfurt
Go to all RankingsMargaret of Sicily
NOBLEMAN
1237 - 1270
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 38
Lucas van Valckenborch
PAINTER
1535 - 1597
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 39
Georg Flegel
PAINTER
1566 - 1638
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 46
Günther von Schwarzburg
NOBLEMAN
1304 - 1349
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 52
Hans Felber
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1889 - 1962
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 53
Carl Graebe
CHEMIST
1841 - 1927
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 55
Antonie Brentano
ARTIST
1780 - 1869
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 58
Princess Louise of Prussia
NOBLEMAN
1829 - 1901
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 63
Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1801 - 1869
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 65
Wilhelm Genazino
WRITER
1943 - 2018
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 67
Erwin Casmir
ATHLETE
1895 - 1982
HPI: 43.98
Rank: 68
Olga Oelkers
FENCER
1887 - 1969
HPI: 43.77
Rank: 69
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Frankfurt were soccer players (23), politicians (12), writers (8), biologists (8), and actors (7), while most who died were politicians (15), writers (13), composers (7), painters (4), and philosophers (3).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Frankfurt, including Andreas Möller, Emre Can, and Birgit Prinz. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Frankfurt, including Andreas Möller, Emre Can, and Birgit Prinz.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Frankfurt since 1700.