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Hamburg ranks 49th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Dublin, Naples, and Kanagawa Prefecture. Memorable people born in Hamburg include Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Karl Lagerfeld. Memorable people who died in Hamburg include Georg Philipp Telemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Otto von Guericke. Hamburg has been the birth place of many politicians 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 8th-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 ninth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1607 and 2007, Hamburg was the birth place of 163 globally memorable people, including Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Karl Lagerfeld. Additionaly, 101 globally memorable people have passed away in Hamburg including Georg Philipp Telemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Otto von Guericke.

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 politicians (20), soccer players (20), actors (15), writers (13), and athletes (10),  while most who died were writers (14), politicians (11), composers (10), actors (8), and athletes (8).

Occupational Trends

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, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Hamburg, including Helmut Schmidt, Ernst Thälmann, and John Rabe.

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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.

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