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40 famous people found
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Carl Benz
German engine designer and automotive engineer
1844 - 1929 -
Robert SCHUMANN
German composer, pianist, and influential music critic
1810 - 1856 -
Richard WAGNER
German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist
1813 - 1883 -
Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD
Founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty
1743 - 1812 -
Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE
German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath
1749 - 1832 -
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Composer, pianist and conductor
1770 - 1827 -
Karl MARX
German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary
1818 - 1883 -
Felix MENDELSSOHN
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor
1809 - 1847 -
Sophie Charlotte VON WITTELSBACH
Duchess of Alençon
1847 - 1897 -
Otto VON BISMARCK
German statesman, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire
1815 - 1898 -
Paul VON HINDENBURG
German field marshal, statesman, and politician
1847 - 1934 -
Ferdinand von ZEPPELIN
German general and later aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company
1838 - 1917 -
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
1835 - 1917 -
Georges Hermann MUMM
French businessman, founder of G. H. Mumm
1816 - 1887 -
Ludwig Aloys DE HOHENLOHE-WALDENBURG-BARTENSTEIN
German prince and Marshal of France
1765 - 1829 -
Ludwig VON FALKENHAUSEN
German general most notable for his activities during World War I
1844 - 1936 -
Friedrich LIST
German-American economist
1789 - 1846 -
Wilhelm BUSCH
German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter
1832 - 1908 -
Gebhard Leberecht VON BLüCHER
Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against Napoleon I
1742 - 1819 -
Charlotte BUFF
A youthful acquaintance of the poet Goethe
1753 - 1828