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Hamburg (deu)

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Hamburg ranks 45th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Belgrade, Tbilisi, and Constantinople. Memorable people born in Hamburg include Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Heinrich Hertz. Memorable people who died in Hamburg include Georg Philipp Telemann, Frederick VIII of Denmark, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Hamburg has been the birth place of many athletes, and soccer players and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Hamburg is located in Germany.

Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the eighth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 2007, Hamburg was the birth place of 216 globally memorable people, including Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Heinrich Hertz. Additionaly, 122 globally memorable people have passed away in Hamburg including Georg Philipp Telemann, Frederick VIII of Denmark, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

People Born in Hamburg

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People Deceased in Hamburg

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Hamburg were athletes (37), soccer players (28), politicians (19), actors (19), and writers (15),  while most who died were writers (16), politicians (14), actors (13), athletes (12), and composers (11).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Hamburg, including Uwe Seeler, Andreas Brehme, and Stefan Effenberg. Whereas, throughout history, athletes have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Hamburg, including Paula Mollenhauer, Karl Hein, and Peter-Michael Kolbe.

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Overlapping Lives

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