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Do not fill this in! ==Notable people== ===Born before 1850=== [[File:Heinrich Heine-Oppenheim.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Heinrich Heine 1831]] [[File:Jacobi (Tischbein).jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Johann Georg Jacobi]] *[[Anne Of Cleves]] (1515–1557), Married to Henry VIII *[[François-Charles de Velbrück]] (1719–1784), Prince-Bishop of [[Liège]] *[[Helena Curtens]] (1722–1738), last victim of the witch trials in the Lower Rhine *[[Johann Georg Jacobi]] (1740–1814), writer *[[Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi]] (1743–1819), philosopher and writer *[[Peter von Cornelius]] (1783–1867), painter *[[Heinrich Heine]] (1797–1856), poet and writer *[[Lorenz Clasen]] (1812–1899), painter *[[Wilhelm Camphausen]] (1818–1885), painter *[[Louise Strantz]] (1823–1909), composer and singer *[[Paul von Hatzfeldt]] (1831–1901), diplomat *[[Anton Josef Reiss]] (1835–1900), sculptor *[[Eugen Richter]] (1838–1906), politician and publicist *[[Arnold Forstmann]] (1842–1914), landscape painter *[[Peter Janssen]] (1844–1908), painter, professor at the Art Academy *[[Karl Rudolf Sohn]] (1845–1908), painter *[[Felix Klein]] (1849–1925), mathematician ===Born 1851–1900=== [[File:Georg Wenker Georg Wenker (1852-1911) (Alter Fritz).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Georg Wenker]] *[[Georg Wenker]] (1852–1911), linguist, founder of linguistic atlas of the German Reich (Wenkeratlas) *[[Karl Janssen]] (1855–1927), sculptor, professor at the Art Academy *[[Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth]] (1855–1928), painter *[[Maria Countess von Kalckreuth]] (1857–1897), painter *Fritz Reiss (1857–1915), lithographer, illustrator, graphic artist and painter *[[Bruno Schmitz]] (1858–1916), architect *[[Otto Hupp]] (1859–1949), signature graphic artist, engraver *[[Albert Herzfeld]] (1865–1943), painter and author *[[Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck]] (1870–1919), composer and pianist *[[Hanns Heinz Ewers]] (1871–1943), writer and filmmaker *[[Wilhelm Levison]] (1876–1947), historian *[[Elly Ney]] (1882–1968), world-famous concert pianist *Carl Maria Weber (1890–1953), writer *[[Willy Reetz]] (1892–1963), painter, "Düsseldorf School" *[[Hermann Knüfken]] (1893–1976), marine soldier, revolutionary, union activist, resistance fighter and secret agent *[[Ludwig Gehre]] (1895–1945), officer and resistance fighter *[[Hans Globke]] (1898–1973), jurist, National Socialist, from 1949 Assistant Secretary, then Secretary of State in the Federal Chancellery (1953–1963) *[[Karl von Appen]] (1900–1981), stage designer ===Born after 1900=== [[File:Filmregisseur Helmut Kautne in Nederland, Bestanddeelnr 910-9501.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Helmut Käutner 1960]] *[[Max Lorenz (tenor)|Max Lorenz]] (1901–1975), tenor *[[Toni Ulmen]] (1906–1976), motorcycle and car race driver *[[Karl Pschigode]] (1907–1971), actor and theatre director *[[Helmut Käutner]] (1908–1980), film director and actor *[[Hilarius Gilges]] (1909–1933), Afro-German actor, victim of [[Nazism]] *[[Ernst Klusen]] (1909–1988), musicologist *[[Luise Rainer]] (1910–2014), actress *[[Josef Peters (racing driver)|Josef Peters]] (1914–2001), racing driver *[[Ursula Benser]] (1915–2001), painter *[[Fred Beckey]] (1923–2017), rock climber, mountaineer, author *[[Jürgen Habermas]] (born 1929), philosopher and sociologist *[[Carl-Ludwig Wagner]] (1930–2012), politician (CDU) *[[Wim Wenders]] (born 1945), filmmaker, playwright, author *[[Carmen Thomas]] (born 1946), journalist, radio and television presenter, author and lecturer *[[Marius Müller-Westernhagen]] (born 1948), actor and musician *[[Heiner Koch]] (born 1954), Roman Catholic bishop *[[Andreas Gursky]] (born 1955), photographer *[[Bettina Böttinger]] (born 1956), TV-presenter *[[Birgitt Bender]] (born 1956), politician (The Greens), Member of Landtag and Bundestag *[[Tommi Stumpff]] (born 1958), musician *[[Bettina Hoffmann (musician)|Bettina Hoffmann]] (born 1959), musician and musicologist *[[Andreas Frege]] (born 1962), "Campino", singer in the band [[Die Toten Hosen]] *[[René Obermann]] (born 1963), manager, husband of [[Maybrit Illner]] *[[Jörg Schmadtke]] (born 1964), football manager *[[André Olbrich]] (born 1967), guitarist in the band [[Blind Guardian]] *[[Michael Preetz]] (born 1967), footballer *[[Svenja Schulze]] (born 1968), politician (SPD) *[[Heike Makatsch]] (born 1971), actress and singer *[[Tetsuya Kakihara]] (born 1982), voice actor and singer *[[Erika Ikuta]] (born 1997), Japanese actress, a former member of [[Nogizaka46]] ===Associated with Düsseldorf=== *[[William Thomas Mulvany]] (1806–1885 in Düsseldorf), entrepreneur *[[Robert Schumann]] (1810–1856), composer, 1850–1854 urban music director in Düsseldorf *[[Alfred Rethel]] (1816–1859 in Düsseldorf), history painter *[[Christian Eduard Boettcher]] (1818–1889), painter who lived, worked and died in Düsseldorf *[[Clara Schumann]] (1819–1896), pianist and composer, wife of Robert Schumann, frequent host of [[Johannes Brahms]] in Düsseldorf (1850–1854) *[[Emanuel Leutze]] (1824–1868), painter, [[Düsseldorf School]] *[[Louise Dumont]] (1862–1932 in Düsseldorf), actress and 1904 founder of the ''Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf'' *[[Johanna Ey|Johanna "Mother" Ey]] (1864–1947 in Düsseldorf), gallery owner *[[Peter Behrens]] (1868–1940), architect and director of the [[Düsseldorf Art Academy]] *[[Wilhelm Kreis]] (1873–1955), architect and director of the School of Applied Arts Düsseldorf *[[Peter Kürten]] (1883–1931), called "The Vampire of Düsseldorf", committed in Düsseldorf during the period between February and November 1929 series of sexual homicides *[[Adolf Uzarski]] (1885–1970 in Düsseldorf), writer, painter and graphic artist *[[Emil Fahrenkamp]] (1885–1966), architect and director of [[Düsseldorf Art Academy]] 1937–1945 *[[Betty Knox]] (1906–1963), dancer with variety act [[Wilson, Keppel and Betty]] and war correspondent. She lived in the city during her later years and died there.<ref name="Betty">{{cite web |url=http://www.jannaludlow.co.uk/Entertainment/WKB.html |title=Wilson, Keppel and Betty — Curios |website=That's Entertainment |access-date=20 May 2018 |archive-date=21 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521021358/http://www.jannaludlow.co.uk/Entertainment/WKB.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Ernest Martin (theatre director and manager)|Ernest Martin]] (born 1932), theatre director, theatre manager and actor in Düsseldorf Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! 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