List of Strasbourg people

Main article: Strasbourg

Born in Strasbourg

Sebastian Brant

Jean-Baptiste Kléber

Strasbourg was the birthplace of:

Gottfried Jordan Fagan 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)
Baruch Schleisinger Weil (1802–1893), American businessman and politician
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
Georges Weill (Strasbourg 1882 - Paris 1970), German politician who defected to France
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 (1921–2010), comic-book artist
Germain Muller (1923–1994), playwright, songwriter, poet, actor, humourist, politician
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), mime
Jean-Claude Pascal Comedian
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 Wolfgang Goethe

Albert Schweitzer

Paul Ricoeur

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