List of people from Königsberg

The following is a list of people from the former city of Königsberg (Królewiec), (Duchy of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany) which was renamed to Kaliningrad, (Soviet Union) in 1946.

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Caspar Schütz (ca. 1540 Eisleben - 1594 Danzig) Prussian Historian at Königsberg and Danzig
Martynas Mažvydas (1510–1563), priest, writer, translator
Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), philosopher
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), author
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher
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
Leah Rabin (née Schlossberg) (1928–2000), author and wife of Yitzhak Rabin

Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), mathematician
Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (1797–1884), physicist
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist
Karl Rudolf König (1832–1901), physicist
Otto Wallach (1847–1931), chemist
David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician
Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), physicist
Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887–1958), chemist
Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899 - 1986), biochemist

Otto Braun, politician
Johann Jacoby. politician
Veruschka von Lehndorff
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, politician
Stanislovas Rapalionis (1485-1545), at Albertina first translator of the Bible into Lithuanian
Abraomas Kulvietis (1509–1545), religious reformer at Albertina
Johann Friedrich Steenke († 1818) maritime trader, founded sea rescue mission
Georg Steenke (1801-1867), canal builder
Carl Otto Nicolai (1810-1849), composer, conductor
Eduard von Simson (1810-1899), jurist and politician
Pavel Pabst (1854–1897), pianist/composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory
Bruno Möhring (1863-1929 Berlin), architect, city planner
Erich von Drygalski (1865-1949), explorer
Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), painter and sculptor
Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), first modern bodybuilder
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), political theorist
Josef Hirsch Dunner (1913-2007), Chief Rabbi of East Prussia
Michael Wieck (born 1928), musician and author
Thomas Eichelbaum (born 1931), former Chief Justice of New Zealand
Heinrich August Winkler (born 1938), historian