List of people from Strasbourg

Born in Strasbourg

Johannes Tauler

Charles Adolphe Wurtz

Elif Şafak

Before 1750

Eric of Friuli (8th century), Frankish duke of Friuli
Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (ca. 1205–ca. 1270), theologian
Johannes Tauler (1300–1361), mystic and theologian
Rulman Merswin (ca. 1307–1382), mystic
Jakob Twinger von Königshofen (1346–1420), chronicler
Hieronymus Brunschwig (ca. 1450–ca. 1512), surgeon, alchemist and botanist
Sebastian Brant (1457–1521), satirical poet and humanist
Ottmar Luscinius (1478–1537), theologian and humanist
Hans Kotter (1480–1541), composer and organist
Wilhelm Stetter (1487–1552), painter and priest
Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489–1553), Protestant statesman and reformist
Andreas Cratander (1490–1540), printer
Katharina Zell (1497–1568), Protestant writer
Jacob Micyllus (1503–1558), humanist and teacher
Martin Schalling the Younger (1532–1608), Protestant theologian and writer
Daniel Specklin (1536–1589), architect, engineer and cartographer
Johann Fischart (1545–1591), satirical author
Johannes Piscator (1546–1625), theologian and translator
Johann Theodor de Bry (1561–1623), engraver and publisher
Sebastian Stoskopff (1597–1657), painter
Johann Wilhelm Baur (1607–1640), engraver, etcher and miniature painter
Albrecht Kauw (1621–1681), painter
Marie Luise von Degenfeld (1634–1677), morganatic second wife of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine
Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1640–1693)
Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1674–1735)
Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1688–1750)
Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721–1774)
Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (1724–1797), Austrian field marshal
Johann Georg Roederer (1726–1763), physician and obstetrician
Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729–1803), French classical scholar
Jean-Joseph Rodolphe (1730–1812), horn player, violinist and composer
Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin (1735–1806), philologist and archaeologist
François Christophe Kellermann (1735–1820), French marshall
Christoph Wilhelm von Koch (1737–1813), diplomat, politician, librarian and writer
Philippe Rühl (1737–1795), politician
Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (1737–1820), poet and President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812), painter
Jean-Frédéric Oberlin (1740–1826), pastor and philanthropist
Johann Christian von Mannlich (1741–1822), painter and architect
Heinrich Leopold Wagner (1747–1779), writer
Philippe Friedrich Dietrich (1748–1793), scholar and politician
Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (1749–1794), composer
Johan Peter Rottler (1749–1836), missionary and botanist
Johann von Türckheim (1749–1824), diplomat

Between 1750 and 1900

Sébastien Érard (1752–1837), instrument maker
Philippe-André Grandidier (1752–1787), priest and historian
Bernard-Frédéric de Turckheim (1752–1831), politician
Jean Baptiste Kléber (1753–1800), architect and general
Jean-François Barbier (1754–1828), general
Louis Ramond de Carbonnières (1755–1827), politician, geologist and botanist
Antoinette Saint-Huberty (1756–1812), opera singer
Christophe Guérin (1758–1831), engraver and painter
François Andrieux (1759–1833), playwright and poet
Jacques Widerkehr (1759–1823), cellist and composer
Joseph Ludwig Colmar (1760–1818), bishop of Mainz
Christian Kramp (1760–1826), mathematician
Marie Tussaud (1761–1850), founder of Madame Tussauds
Johann Jakob Humann (1771–1834) Roman Catholic clergyman
Charles-Joseph Christiani (1772–1840), Maréchal de camp of the French Army
Louis-François Lejeune (1775–1848), general, painter, and lithographer
Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (1776–1856), clockmaker
Chrétien Géofroy Nestler (1778–1832), botanist and pharmacist
Johann Georg Daniel Arnold (1780-1829), lawyer and writer
Samson Cerfberr (1780–1826), soldier and author
Jean-Georges Humann (1780–1842), statesman
Jean-Frédéric de Turckheim (1780–1850), politician
Gustave Vogt (1781–1870), oboist and composer
Nicholas-Henri Schreider (1783-1832) champagne maker
Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786–1868)
Camille Pleyel (1788–1855), piano manufacturer and musical entrepreneur
Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788–1851)
Édouard Spach (1801–1879), botanist
Baruch Schleisinger Weil (1802–1893), American businessman and politician
August Stöber (1808–1884), poet, scholar and collector of folklore
Louis Roederer (1809-1870), champagne maker
Jean-Georges Kastner (1810–1867), composer and musicologist
Adolphe Stoeber (1810–1892), ecclesiastic and writer
Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne (1814–1884), Catholic priest and missionary
Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil (1814–1885), painter
Émile Küss (1815–1871), physician and politician
Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1818–1884), chemist
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1818–1856), chemist
Benjamin-Constant Martha (1820–1895), historian
August Kayser (1821–1885), Protestant theologian
Théophile Schuler (1821–1878), painter and illustrator
Hippolyte Pradelles (1824–1913), painter
Oscar Berger-Levrault (1826–1903), philatelist
Charles Netter (1826–1882), French Zionist
Louis Ratisbonne (1827–1900), writer
Paul Schützenberger (1829–1897), chemist
Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber (1830–1903), botanist
Gustave Doré (1832–1883), painter
Charles Friedel (1832–1899), chemist and mineralogist
Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger (1832–1899), theologian
Mélanie de Pourtalès (1836–1914), socialite
Émile Waldteufel (1837–1915), composer
Édouard Schuré (1841–1929), philosopher
Edward Dannreuther (1844–1905), pianist and musicologist
Nicolas Delsor (1847–1927), priest and politician
Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), hispanist
Jules Martha (1853–1932), archaeologist
Paul Émile Appell (1855–1930), mathematician
Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856–1901), botanist and phytogeographer
Léon Wieger (1856–1933), Jesuit missionary, medical doctor, theologist and sinologist
Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916), Christian mystic
Charles Diehl (1859–1944), historian
Hugo Becker (1863–1941), cellist, cello teacher, and composer
Charles Andler (1866–1933), germanist and philosopher
Eugène Wilhelm (1866-1951), lawyer, judge and writer
Ernest Henri Demanne (1870–1938), comedian
André Lichtenberger (1870–1940), novelist and sociologist
Helmar Lerski (1871–1956), photographer
Heinrich Emil Timerding (1873–1945), mathematician
Heinrich Liebmann (1874–1939), mathematician and geometer
Max Looff (1874–1954), naval officer
Karl Wendling (1875–1962), violinist and musical educator
Léo Schnug (1878–1933), painter and illustrator
Karl Klingler (1879–1971), violinist and composer
Émile Mathis (1880–1956), car manufacturer
Richard Laqueur (1881–1959), historian and philologist
Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), educator and Nazi resistance fighter
Ernst Damzog (1882–1945), Brigadeführer of the SS
Robert Redslob (1882–1962), constitutional and public international law-scientist
Georges Weill (1882–1970), German politician who defected to France
Paul Gröber (1885–1964), geologist
Jean/Hans Arp (1886–1966), artist
René Beeh (1886–1822), painter and draughtsman
Robert Heger (1886–1978), conductor
Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967), artist, museum director
Jules Kruger (1891–1959), cinematographer
Charles Münch (1891–1968), conductor
Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt (1892–1964), general
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894–1945), Nazi official and high-ranking member of the SA and the SS
Marcelle Cahn (1895–1981), artist
Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (1895–1945), admiral of the Kriegsmarine
Paul Alverdes (1897–1979), novelist and poet
Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961), architect

After 1900

Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1901–1988), musicologist
Hans Bethe (1906–2005), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Gerolf Steiner (1908–2009), zoologist
Hans-Otto Meissner (1909–1992), writer
Max Bense (1910–1990), philosopher
Georges Loinger (1910–2018), member of the French Resistance
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (1913–1957), poet and journalist
Antoinette Becker (1920–1998), writer and translator
Jacques Martin (1921–2010), comic-book artist
Germain Muller (1923–1994), playwright, songwriter, poet, actor, humourist, politician
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), mime
Serge Leclaire (1924–1994), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Pierre Weil (1924–2008), psychologist and educator
Noah Klieger (1926–2018), journalist
Francis Rapp (1926–2020), historian
Claude Rich (1929–2017), actor
Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019), writer, illustrator and caricaturist
Solange Fernex (1934–2006), politician
Liliane Ackermann (1938–2007), French Jewish community leader
Gilbert Gress (born 1941), football coach
Jean-Pierre Hubert (1941–2006), author
Isoldé Elchlepp (born 1942) German protest song singer, and operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano
Wolfgang Huber (born 1942), theologian and ethicist
Bob Wollek (1943–2001), rally driver
Herbert Léonard (born 1945), singer
Joseph Daul (born 1947), politician
Thierry Mugler (born 1948), fashion designer
Francis Wurtz (born 1948), politician
Michel Warschawski (born 1949), Israeli anti-Zionist writer and activist
Arsène Wenger OBE (born 1949), football manager
Jean-Marie Bockel (born 1950), politician
Catherine Trautmann (born 1951), politician
Patrice Meyer (born 1957), guitarist
Elizabeth Sombart (born 1958), pianist
Patrick Cahuzac (born 1963), writer, winner of the Prix Fénéon for literature in 1990
Emmanuel Villaume (born 1964), conductor
Carole Richert (born 1967), actress
Christophe Ohrel (born 1968), football player
Eliette Abécassis (born 1969), writer
Yann Wehrling (born 1971), artist and leader of the French Green Party
Elif Şafak (born 1971), writer
Alexis Kohler (born 1972), politician
Valérien Ismaël (born 1975), football player
Armando Teixeira (born 1976), football player
Mehdi Baala (born 1978), athlete
Blandine Brocard (born 1981), politician
Paul-Henri Mathieu (born 1982), tennis player
Pio Marmaï (born 1984), actor
Karim Matmour (born 1985), football player
M. Pokora (born 1985), singer
Candice Didier (born 1988), figure skater
Jonathan Schmid (born 1990), football player

Notable residents of Strasbourg

Johannes Gutenberg

John Calvin

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Klemens von Metternich

Louis Pasteur

Hans Pfitzner

Albert Schweitzer

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328), philosopher
Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468), inventor of printing with movable type
Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg (1445–1510), preacher
Erasmus (1467–1536), humanist
Hans Baldung (1484–1545), painter
Beatus Rhenanus (1485–1547), humanist
Caspar Schwenckfeld (1489–1561), theologian
Martin Bucer (1491–1551), Reformation leader
Johannes Sleidanus (1506–1556), German historian, the annalist of the Reformation
Johannes Sturm (1507–1589), teacher and pedagogue
John Calvin (1509–1564), Reformation leader
Michael Servetus (1511–1553), Spanish theologian, physician and humanist
Joachim Meyer (1537?–1571), fencer, author of an influential fechtbuch
Tobias Stimmer (1539–1584), Swiss painter
Johann Carolus (1575–1634), German publisher
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671–1745), marshall and governor of Strasbourg
Johann Daniel Schöpflin (1694–1771), historian and jurist, Goethe's teacher at Strasbourg University
Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789), composer, eminent member of the Mannheim school
Johann Hermann (1738–1800), French physician and naturalist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), poet, playwright, novelist, researcher
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792), poet
King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756–1825), spent several years in Strasbourg
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer, spent 23 days there in 1778
Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831), served as Kapellmeister at the Cathedral in 1789
Maximilian von Montgelas (1759–1838), Bavarian statesman
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760–1836), composer of the Marseillaise
Klemens von Metternich (1773–1859), studied in Strasbourg from 1788 to 1790
Georg Büchner (1813–1837), writer
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889), historian
Louis Pasteur (1830–1895), scientist
Viktor Nessler (1841–1890), composer
Lujo Brentano (1844–1931), economist
Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), physicist, Nobel Prize
Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927), medical doctor, Nobel Prize
Georg Simmel (1858–1918), sociologist
Georges Friedel (1865–1933), mineralogist, son of Charles Friedel
Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949), composer
Fritz Beblo (1872–1947), architect
Jean-Jacques Waltz aka Hansi (1873–1951), artist
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), theologian, philosopher, physician and musician
Paul Rohmer (1876–1977), physician, considered as one of the fathers of modern paediatrics
Maurice Halbwachs (1877–1945), sociologist
Otto Meißner (1880–1953), politician, father of Hans-Otto Meissner
Otto Klemperer (1885–1973), conductor
Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian and resistant
Hans Rosbaud (1895–1962), conductor
George Szell (1897–1970), conductor
Emmanuel Lévinas (1906–1995), philosopher
Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003), writer and philosopher
Pierre Pflimlin (1907–2000), politician
Lucie Aubrac (born 1912) and Raymond Aubrac (born 1914), founding members of the Résistance
Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003), jurist, member of the Résistance
Ernest Bour (1913–2001), conductor
Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005), philosopher
Salomon Gluck (1914–1944), physician, member of the Résistance
Rose Warfman (born 1916), nurse, survivor of Auschwitz and member of the Résistance
Hélène Boschi (1917–1990) pianist
René Thom (1923–2002), mathematician
Guy Debord (1931–1994), philosopher
Sarkis Zabunyan (born 1938), painter
Alberto Fujimori (born 1938), Peruvian president
Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939), Nobel Prize for chemistry 1987
Alain Lombard (born 1940), conductor
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940–2007), philosopher
Jean-Luc Nancy (born 1940), philosopher
Jules Hoffmann (born 1941), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011
Georges Aperghis (born 1945), composer
Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989), playwright
Barbara Honigmann (born 1949), German writer and painter
Pierre Moerlen (1952–2005), musician
Ségolène Royal (born 1953), leading member of the Parti Socialiste, went to school in Strasbourg
Thomas Ebbesen (born 1954), physical chemist
John Howe (born 1957), artist
Mireille Delunsch (born 1962), soprano
Marjane Satrapi (born 1969), comic-strip artist

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