List of Strasbourg people

• Main article: Strasbourg

Born in Strasbourg

Strasbourg was the birthplace of:

• Gottfried von Straßburg (12th century) poet
• Johannes Tauler (1300–1361), mystic and theologian
• Sebastian Brant (1457–1521), satirical poet and humanist
• Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489–1553) Protestant statesman and reformist
• Katharina Zell (1497–1568), Protestant writer
• Daniel Specklin (1536–1589), architect, engineer and cartographer
• 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)
• Marie Tussaud (1761–1850), founder of Madame Tussauds
• Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (1776–1856), clockmaker
• Jean-Georges Humann (1780–1842), statesman
• Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786–1868)
• Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1818–1856), French chemist
• Oscar Berger-Levrault (1826–1903), philatelist
• Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber (1830–1903), botanist
• 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
• Claude Rich (born 1929), actor
• Tomi Ungerer (born 1931), illustrator and caricaturist
• Solange Fernex (1934–2006), politician
• Marc Gilbert (1934–1982), TV producer
• Liliane Ackermann (1938–2007), French Jewish Community leader
• Gilbert Gress (born 1941), football coach
• Jean-Pierre Hubert (1941–2006), author
• Bob Wollek (1943–2001), rally driver
• Herbert Léonard (born 1945), singer
• Joseph Daul (born 1947), politician
• Francis Wurtz (born 1948), politician
• Arsène Wenger OBE, (born 1949), football manager
• Jean-Marie Bockel (born 1950), politician
• 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
• Karim Matmour (born 1985), footballer
• M. Pokora (born 1985), singer
• Candice Didier (born 1988), figure Skater

Famous residents of Strasbourg

• 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
• 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 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Rodolphe Burger (born 1957), musician
• John Howe (born 1957), artist
• Mireille Delunsch (born 1962), soprano
• Marjane Satrapi (born 1969), comic-strip artist.