Famous people of Strasbourg

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[edit] Born in Strasbourg

Strasbourg was the birthplace of:

• Gottfried von Straßburg (12th century) poet
• Sebastian Brant (1457-1521), satirical poet and humanist
• Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489-1553) Protestant statesman and reformist
• Katharina Zell (1497-1568), Protestant writer.
• Sebastian Stoskopff (1597-1657), painter
• Johann Fischart (1546-1590), satirical author
• Albrecht Kauw (1621-1681), painter
• Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (1724-1797), Austrian field marshal
• François Christophe Kellermann (1735-1820), French marshall
• Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740-1812), painter
• Jean-Frédéric Oberlin (1740-1826), pastor and philanthropist
• Heinrich Leopold Wagner (1747 - 1779), writer
• Jean Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800), general
• Louis Ramond de Carbonnières (1755-1827), politician, geologist and botanist
• Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (1776-1856), clockmaker
• Jean-Georges Humann (1780-1842), statesman
• Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786-1868)
• Oscar Berger-Levrault (1826-1903), philatelist
• Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber (1830-1903), botanician
• Gustave Doré (1832-1883), painter
• Charles Friedel (1832-1899), chemist and mineralogist
• Émile Waldteufel (Charles Émile Lévy) (1837-1915), composer
• Édouard Schuré (1841-1929), philosopher
• Paul Émile Appell (1855-1930), mathematician
• Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), christian mystic
• Jean/Hans Arp (1886-1966), artist
• Robert Heger (1886-1978), conductor
• Charles Münch (1891-1968), conductor
• Marcelle Cahn (1895-1981), artist
• Hans Bethe (1906-2005), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• Hans-Otto Meissner (1909-1992), writer
• Max Bense (1910-1990), philosopher
• Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (1913-1957), poet
• Camille Claus (1920-2005), painter
• Jacques Martin (born 1921), comic-book artist
• Marcel Marceau (1923-2007), mime
• Tomi Ungerer (born 1931), 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
• Bob Wollek (1943-2001), rallye driver
• Herbert Léonard (born 1945), singer
• Joseph Daul (born 1947), politician
• Francis Wurtz (born 1948), politician
• Arsène Wenger OBE, (born 1949), football manager
• Catherine Trautmann (born 1951), politician
• 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
• Valérien Ismaël (born 1975), football player
• Armando Teixeira (born 1976), football player
• Salomé Haller, soprano
• Mehdi Baala, (born 1978), athlete
• Paul-Henri Mathieu (born 1982), tennis-player
• M. Pokora (born 1985), singer

[edit] Famous residents of Strasbourg

See also : University of Strasbourg#Famous teachers or students

• Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), philosopher
• Johann 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
• 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 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 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 Wenzel 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
• 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
• 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 (1916- ), nurse, survivor of Auschwitz and member of the Résistance
• 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
• Georges Aperghis (born 1945), composer
• Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), playwright
• Barbara Honigmann (born 1949), German writer and painter
• Ségolène Royal (born 1953), leading member of the Parti Socialiste, went to school in Strasbourg.
• Rodolphe Burger (born 1957), musician
• John Howe (born 1957), artist
• Mireille Delunsch (born 1962), soprano
• Marjane Satrapi (born 1969), comic-strip artist.