Stralsund
Stralsund ranks 1,130th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Zama, Kanagawa, Ystad, and Cagliari. Memorable people born in Stralsund include Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, and Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld. Stralsund has been the birth place of many biologists, and chemists. Stralsund is located in Germany.
Stralsund, officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund, is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald, and the second-largest city in the Pomeranian part of the state. It is located on the southern coast of the Strelasund, a sound of the Baltic Sea separating the island of Rügen from the Pomeranian mainland. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1615 and 1972, Stralsund was the birth place of 13 globally memorable people, including Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, and Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld.
People Born in Stralsund
Go to all RankingsCarl Wilhelm Scheele
CHEMIST
1742 - 1786
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 1
Philip Johan von Strahlenberg
EXPLORER
1676 - 1747
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 2
Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1651 - 1722
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 3
Hermann Burmeister
BIOLOGIST
1807 - 1892
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 4
Nicodemus Tessin the Elder
ARCHITECT
1615 - 1681
HPI: 54.61
Rank: 5
Carl Friedrich von Ledebour
BIOLOGIST
1786 - 1851
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 6
Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
BIOLOGIST
1817 - 1908
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 7
Dietmar Bartsch
POLITICIAN
1958 - Present
HPI: 44.37
Rank: 8
Silke Möller
POLITICIAN
1964 - Present
HPI: 44.32
Rank: 9
Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson
PHYSICIAN
1809 - 1848
HPI: 44.22
Rank: 10
Christian Ehrenfried Weigel
CHEMIST
1748 - 1831
HPI: 43.62
Rank: 11
Nadja Uhl
ACTOR
1972 - Present
HPI: 39.24
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Stralsund
Go to all RankingsWilhelm Ferdinand Erichson
PHYSICIAN
1809 - 1848
HPI: 44.22
Rank: 10
Christian Ehrenfried Weigel
CHEMIST
1748 - 1831
HPI: 43.62
Rank: 11
Carsten Embach
ATHLETE
1968 - Present
HPI: 36.52
Rank: 13
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Stralsund were biologists (3), chemists (2), politicians (2), explorers (1), and military personnels (1), while most who died were .
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, politicians have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Stralsund, including Dietmar Bartsch, and Silke Möller. Whereas, throughout history, biologists have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Stralsund, including Hermann Burmeister, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, and Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 6 globally memorable people born in Stralsund since 1700.