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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.

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People Deceased in Frankfurt

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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).

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.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Frankfurt since 1700.