List of people from Strasbourg

Born in Strasbourg

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
• Fritsche Closener (died before 1373), priest, historian
• Rulman Merswin (ca. 1307–1382), mystic
• Jakob Twinger von Königshofen (1346–1420), chronicler
• Martin Schott (d. 1499), printer
• Johannes Schott (1477–1550), printer
• 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)
• Jacques-Antoine Denoyé (died 1759), composer and organist
• 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
• Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg (1784–1838), military officer
• 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
• Marie-Théodore Ratisbonne (1802–1884), Catholic priest and missionary
• 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
• August Eduard Cunitz (1812–1886), Protestant theologian
• 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
• Franz Zorn von Bulach (1858–1925), Catholic bishop
• 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
• Otto Froitzheim (1884–1962), tennis player
• 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

• Robert Kuven (1901-1983), German/French artist
• Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1901–1988), musicologist
• Charles Ehresmann (1905–1979), mathematician
• 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
• Jean-Louis Mandel (born 1946), geneticist
• Joseph Daul (born 1947), politician
• Thierry Mugler (1948–2022), 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
• Alain Weill (born 1961), business executive
• 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
• Philippe Schaaf (born 1968), handball player
• Eliette Abécassis (born 1969), writer
• Yvon Riemer (born 1970), wrestler
• 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
• Nicolas Mougin (born 1979), professional vert skater
• Blandine Brocard (born 1981), politician
• Paul-Henri Mathieu (born 1982), tennis player
• Antoine Grauss (born 1984), football player
• Pio Marmaï (born 1984), actor
• Karim Matmour (born 1985), football player
• Laura Weissbecker (born 1984), actress
• M. Pokora (born 1985), singer
• Candice Didier (born 1988), figure skater
• Jonathan Schmid (born 1990), football player
• Jonathan Clauss (born 1992), football player

Notable residents of Strasbourg

• 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