List of people from Königsberg
The following is a list of people associated with the former city of Königsberg (Duchy of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany) which was renamed to Kaliningrad, Soviet Union in 1946.
Writers
- Stanisław Murzynowski (c.1527–1553), Polish writer, translator and a Lutheran activist during the Protestant Reformation.
- Caspar Schütz (c.1540 Eisleben – 1594 Danzig), historian at Königsberg and Danzig, interest in the history of Prussia.
- Martynas Mažvydas (1510–1563), priest, writer and translator
- Jan Kochanowski (1530 in Sycyna – 1584) Polish poet, attended the University of Königsberg after 1547
- Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), philosopher
- E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), author
- Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher
- Wincenty Pol (1807 in Lublin – 1872) Polish poet; was interned in Königsberg after the fall of the November Uprising in Russian partition of Poland.
- Ferdinand Nesselmann (1811 Fürstenau – 1881 Königsberg), mathematician, historian, orientalist and philologist
- Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), feminist and author
- Abraham Mapu (1808–1867), Hebrew novelist
- Friedrich Radszuweit (1876–1932), author and publisher
- Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), author
- Leah Goldberg (1911–1970), Israeli poet
- Hans-Joachim Newiger, (1925–2011), philologist
- Leah Rabin (née Schloßberg) (1928–2000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin
Scientists
- Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician
- Johann Bartsch (1709–1738), physician, botanist, and collaborator with Carl Linnaeus
- Karl Gottfried Hagen (1749–1829), chemist, opened first German chemistry lab at Königsberg's Albertina University
- Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797–1884), physicist
- Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811–1874), mathematician
- Adolph Eduard Grube (1812–1880), zoologist
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist
- Karl Rudolf König (1832–1901), physicist
- Carl Neumann (1832–1925), mathematician
- Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), mathematician
- Alfred Clebsch (1833–1872), mathematician
- Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (1834–1918), pathologist
- Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846–1906), botanist
- Otto Wallach (1847–1931), chemist
- David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician
- Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909), mathematician
- Siegfried Passarge (1866–1958), geographer
- Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), physicist
- Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887–1958), chemist
- Hermann Eichhorst (1849–1921), physician
- Max Wien (1866–1938), physicist
- Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899–1986), biochemist
Arts and Music
- Anton Möller (c.1563–1611), painter active mostly in Danzig (Gdańsk)
- August Kohn (1732–c.1801/2), violinist and composer active at the royal and margravial courts in Berlin
- Carl Otto Nicolai (1810–1849), composer and conductor
- Pavel Pabst (1854–1897), pianist/composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory
- Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), painter and sculptor
- Heinz Tiessen (1887–1971), composer
- Max Colpet (1905–1998), popular song lyricist
- Michael Wieck (born 1928), musician and author
- Witta Pohl (1937–2011), German actress
- Veruschka von Lehndorff (born 1939), model, actress and artist
- Fritz Albert Lieven (1906–1971) actor
Military
- Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein (1630–1672), Prussian count, colonel and politician assassinated for alleged treason
- Erhard Ernst von Röder (1665–1743), Prussian field marshal
- Friedrich von der Trenck (1726–1794), Prussian officer and adventurer
- Hans Feige, (1880–1953), Wehrmacht general
- Werner Ostendorff (1903–1945), German SS Major General (Gruppenführer) of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich
- Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–1983), second-highest-ranking Luftwaffe fighter ace (301 victories).
Politicians
- Johann Jacoby (1805–1877), politician
- Eduard von Simson (1810–1899), jurist and politician
- Otto Braun, (1872–1955), statesman and politician
- Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945), politician
- Wilhelm von Gayl (1879–1945), politician
Others
- Stanislovas Rapalionis (1485–1545), at Königsberg Albertina University first translator of the Bible into Lithuanian
- Abraomas Kulvietis (1509–1545), religious reformer at Königsberg Albertina University
- Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847), surgeon
- Hermann August Hagen (1817–1893) Cambridge, U.S., German entomologist
- Philipp Friedrich Alexander, Fürst zu Eulenburg (1847–1921)
- Walter Liebenthal (1886–1982), sinologist and philosopher
- Erich von Drygalski (1865–1949), explorer
- Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), first modern bodybuilder
- Bruno Taut (1880–1938), architect
- Max Taut (1884–1967), architect
- Moshe Smoira (1888–1961), first President of the Supreme Court of Israel
- Lilli Henoch (1899–1942), world record holder in the discus, shot put, and 4 × 100 meters relay, killed by the Nazis
- Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), political theorist
- Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner (1913–2007), Chief Rabbi of East Prussia 1936-1938
- Thomas Eichelbaum (1931–2018), former Chief Justice of New Zealand
- Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian
- Reinhard Bonnke (1940–2019), televangelist
- Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (1892–1929), aviation pioneer and initiator of the first east-west transatlantic flight in 1928.
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