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Weimar ranks 331st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Fort Worth, Texas, Trieste, and Glendale, California. Memorable people born in Weimar include Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, and Carl Zeiss. Memorable people who died in Weimar include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Friedrich Schiller. Weimar has been the birth place of many politicians, and noblemen and the death place of many politicians, and noblemen. Weimar is located in .

Weimar is a city in the German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Leipzig, 170 km (106 mi) north of Nuremberg and 170 km (106 mi) west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouring cities of Erfurt and Jena, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia, with approximately 500,000 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of 65,000. Weimar is well known because of its cultural heritage and importance in German history. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1449 and 1998, Weimar was the birth place of 41 globally memorable people, including Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, and Carl Zeiss. Additionaly, 41 globally memorable people have passed away in Weimar including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Friedrich Schiller.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Weimar were politicians (13), noblemen (9), writers (5), composers (2), and physicists (2),  while most who died were politicians (12), noblemen (12), writers (6), composers (3), and philosophers (2).

Over the past 100 years, writers have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Weimar, including Wolfgang Hohlbein, and Sibylle Berg. Whereas, throughout history, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Weimar, including Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, and Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 23 globally memorable people born in Weimar since 1700.