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Born in Strasbourg
Before 1750
- Eric of Friuli (8th century), Frankish duke of Friuli
- Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (ca. 1205âÂÂca. 1270), theologian
- Johannes Tauler (1300âÂÂ1361), mystic and theologian
- Fritsche Closener (died before 1373), priest, historian
- Rulman Merswin (ca. 1307âÂÂ1382), mystic
- Jakob Twinger von Königshofen (1346âÂÂ1420), chronicler
- Martin Schott (d. 1499), printer
- Johannes Schott (1477âÂÂ1550), printer
- Hieronymus Brunschwig (ca. 1450âÂÂca. 1512), surgeon, alchemist and botanist
- Sebastian Brant (1457âÂÂ1521), satirical poet and humanist
- Ottmar Luscinius (1478âÂÂ1537), theologian and humanist
- Hans Kotter (1480âÂÂ1541), composer and organist
- Wilhelm Stetter (1487âÂÂ1552), painter and priest
- Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489âÂÂ1553), Protestant statesman and reformist
- Andreas Cratander (1490âÂÂ1540), printer
- Katharina Zell (1497âÂÂ1568), Protestant writer
- Jacob Micyllus (1503âÂÂ1558), humanist and teacher
- Martin Schalling the Younger (1532âÂÂ1608), Protestant theologian and writer
- Daniel Specklin (1536âÂÂ1589), architect, engineer and cartographer
- Johann Fischart (1545âÂÂ1591), satirical author
- Johannes Piscator (1546âÂÂ1625), theologian and translator
- Johann Theodor de Bry (1561âÂÂ1623), engraver and publisher
- Sebastian Stoskopff (1597âÂÂ1657), painter
- Johann Wilhelm Baur (1607âÂÂ1640), engraver, etcher and miniature painter
- Albrecht Kauw (1621âÂÂ1681), painter
- Marie Luise von Degenfeld (1634âÂÂ1677), morganatic second wife of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine
- Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1640âÂÂ1693)
- Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1674âÂÂ1735)
- Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1688âÂÂ1750)
- Jacques-Antoine Denoyé (died 1759), composer and organist
- Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721âÂÂ1774)
- Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (1724âÂÂ1797), Austrian field marshal
- Johann Georg Roederer (1726âÂÂ1763), physician and obstetrician
- Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729âÂÂ1803), French classical scholar
- Jean-Joseph Rodolphe (1730âÂÂ1812), horn player, violinist and composer
- Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin (1735âÂÂ1806), philologist and archaeologist
- François Christophe Kellermann (1735âÂÂ1820), French marshall
- Christoph Wilhelm von Koch (1737âÂÂ1813), diplomat, politician, librarian and writer
- Philippe Rühl (1737âÂÂ1795), politician
- Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (1737âÂÂ1820), poet and President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740âÂÂ1812), painter
- Jean-Frédéric Oberlin (1740âÂÂ1826), pastor and philanthropist
- Johann Christian von Mannlich (1741âÂÂ1822), painter and architect
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner (1747âÂÂ1779), writer
- Philippe Friedrich Dietrich (1748âÂÂ1793), scholar and politician
- Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (1749âÂÂ1794), composer
- Johan Peter Rottler (1749âÂÂ1836), missionary and botanist
- Johann von Türckheim (1749âÂÂ1824), diplomat
Between 1750 and 1900
- Sébastien ÃÂrard (1752âÂÂ1837), instrument maker
- Philippe-André Grandidier (1752âÂÂ1787), priest and historian
- Bernard-Frédéric de Turckheim (1752âÂÂ1831), politician
- Jean Baptiste Kléber (1753âÂÂ1800), architect and general
- Jean-François Barbier (1754âÂÂ1828), general
- Louis Ramond de Carbonnières (1755âÂÂ1827), politician, geologist and botanist
- Antoinette Saint-Huberty (1756âÂÂ1812), opera singer
- Christophe Guérin (1758âÂÂ1831), engraver and painter
- François Andrieux (1759âÂÂ1833), playwright and poet
- Jacques Widerkehr (1759âÂÂ1823), cellist and composer
- Joseph Ludwig Colmar (1760âÂÂ1818), bishop of Mainz
- Christian Kramp (1760âÂÂ1826), mathematician
- Marie Tussaud (1761âÂÂ1850), founder of Madame Tussauds
- Johann Jakob Humann (1771âÂÂ1834) Roman Catholic clergyman
- Charles-Joseph Christiani (1772âÂÂ1840), Maréchal de camp of the French Army
- Louis-François Lejeune (1775âÂÂ1848), general, painter, and lithographer
- Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (1776âÂÂ1856), clockmaker
- Chrétien Géofroy Nestler (1778âÂÂ1832), botanist and pharmacist
- Johann Georg Daniel Arnold (1780âÂÂ1829), lawyer and writer
- Samson Cerfberr (1780âÂÂ1826), soldier and author
- Jean-Georges Humann (1780âÂÂ1842), statesman
- Jean-Frédéric de Turckheim (1780âÂÂ1850), politician
- Gustave Vogt (1781âÂÂ1870), oboist and composer
- Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg (1784âÂÂ1838), military officer
- Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786âÂÂ1868)
- Camille Pleyel (1788âÂÂ1855), piano manufacturer and musical entrepreneur
- Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788âÂÂ1851)
- ÃÂdouard Spach (1801âÂÂ1879), botanist
- Marie-Théodore Ratisbonne (1802âÂÂ1884), Catholic priest and missionary
- Baruch Schleisinger Weil (1802âÂÂ1893), American businessman and politician
- August Stöber (1808âÂÂ1884), poet, scholar and collector of folklore
- Louis Roederer (1809âÂÂ1870), champagne maker
- Jean-Georges Kastner (1810âÂÂ1867), composer and musicologist
- Adolphe Stoeber (1810âÂÂ1892), ecclesiastic and writer
- August Eduard Cunitz (1812âÂÂ1886), Protestant theologian
- Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne (1814âÂÂ1884), Catholic priest and missionary
- Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil (1814âÂÂ1885), painter
- ÃÂmile Küss (1815âÂÂ1871), physician and politician
- Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1818âÂÂ1884), chemist
- Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1818âÂÂ1856), chemist
- Benjamin-Constant Martha (1820âÂÂ1895), historian
- August Kayser (1821âÂÂ1885), Protestant theologian
- Théophile Schuler (1821âÂÂ1878), painter and illustrator
- Hippolyte Pradelles (1824âÂÂ1913), painter
- Oscar Berger-Levrault (1826âÂÂ1903), philatelist
- Charles Netter (1826âÂÂ1882), French Zionist
- Louis Ratisbonne (1827âÂÂ1900), writer
- Paul Schützenberger (1829âÂÂ1897), chemist
- Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber (1830âÂÂ1903), botanist
- Gustave Doré (1832âÂÂ1883), painter
- Charles Friedel (1832âÂÂ1899), chemist and mineralogist
- Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger (1832âÂÂ1899), theologian
- Mélanie de Pourtalès (1836âÂÂ1914), socialite
- ÃÂmile Waldteufel (1837âÂÂ1915), composer
- ÃÂdouard Schuré (1841âÂÂ1929), philosopher
- Edward Dannreuther (1844âÂÂ1905), pianist and musicologist
- Nicolas Delsor (1847âÂÂ1927), priest and politician
- Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850âÂÂ1924), hispanist
- Jules Martha (1853âÂÂ1932), archaeologist
- Paul ÃÂmile Appell (1855âÂÂ1930), mathematician
- Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856âÂÂ1901), botanist and phytogeographer
- Léon Wieger (1856âÂÂ1933), Jesuit missionary, medical doctor, theologist and sinologist
- Charles de Foucauld (1858âÂÂ1916), Christian mystic
- Franz Zorn von Bulach (1858âÂÂ1925), Catholic bishop
- Charles Diehl (1859âÂÂ1944), historian
- Hugo Becker (1863âÂÂ1941), cellist, cello teacher, and composer
- Charles Andler (1866âÂÂ1933), germanist and philosopher
- Eugène Wilhelm (1866âÂÂ1951), lawyer, judge and writer
- Ernest Henri Demanne (1870âÂÂ1938), comedian
- André Lichtenberger (1870âÂÂ1940), novelist and sociologist
- Helmar Lerski (1871âÂÂ1956), photographer
- Heinrich Emil Timerding (1873âÂÂ1945), mathematician
- Heinrich Liebmann (1874âÂÂ1939), mathematician and geometer
- Max Looff (1874âÂÂ1954), naval officer
- Karl Wendling (1875âÂÂ1962), violinist and musical educator
- Léo Schnug (1878âÂÂ1933), painter and illustrator
- Karl Klingler (1879âÂÂ1971), violinist and composer
- ÃÂmile Mathis (1880âÂÂ1956), car manufacturer
- Richard Laqueur (1881âÂÂ1959), historian and philologist
- Elisabeth Abegg (1882âÂÂ1974), educator and Nazi resistance fighter
- Ernst Damzog (1882âÂÂ1945), Brigadeführer of the SS
- Robert Redslob (1882âÂÂ1962), constitutional and public international law-scientist
- Georges Weill (1882âÂÂ1970), German politician who defected to France
- Otto Froitzheim (1884âÂÂ1962), tennis player
- Paul Gröber (1885âÂÂ1964), geologist
- Jean/Hans Arp (1886âÂÂ1966), artist
- René Beeh (1886âÂÂ1822), painter and draughtsman
- Robert Heger (1886âÂÂ1978), conductor
- Hilla von Rebay (1890âÂÂ1967), artist, museum director
- Jules Kruger (1891âÂÂ1959), cinematographer
- Charles Münch (1891âÂÂ1968), conductor
- Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt (1892âÂÂ1964), general
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894âÂÂ1945), Nazi official and high-ranking member of the SA and the SS
- Marcelle Cahn (1895âÂÂ1981), artist
- Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (1895âÂÂ1945), admiral of the Kriegsmarine
- Paul Alverdes (1897âÂÂ1979), novelist and poet
- Rudolf Schwarz (1897âÂÂ1961), architect
After 1900
- Robert Kuven (1901-1983), German/French artist
- Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1901âÂÂ1988), musicologist
- Charles Ehresmann (1905âÂÂ1979), mathematician
- Hans Bethe (1906âÂÂ2005), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- Gerolf Steiner (1908âÂÂ2009), zoologist
- Hans-Otto Meissner (1909âÂÂ1992), writer
- Max Bense (1910âÂÂ1990), philosopher
- Georges Loinger (1910âÂÂ2018), member of the French Resistance
- Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (1913âÂÂ1957), poet and journalist
- Antoinette Becker (1920âÂÂ1998), writer and translator
- Jacques Martin (1921âÂÂ2010), comic-book artist
- Germain Muller (1923âÂÂ1994), playwright, songwriter, poet, actor, humourist, politician
- Marcel Marceau (1923âÂÂ2007), mime
- Serge Leclaire (1924âÂÂ1994), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Pierre Weil (1924âÂÂ2008), psychologist and educator
- Noah Klieger (1926âÂÂ2018), journalist
- Francis Rapp (1926âÂÂ2020), historian
- Claude Rich (1929âÂÂ2017), actor
- Tomi Ungerer (1931âÂÂ2019), writer, illustrator and caricaturist
- Solange Fernex (1934âÂÂ2006), politician
- Liliane Ackermann (1938âÂÂ2007), French Jewish community leader
- Gilbert Gress (born 1941), football coach
- Jean-Pierre Hubert (1941âÂÂ2006), author
- Isoldé Elchlepp (born 1942) German protest song singer, and operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano
- Wolfgang Huber (born 1942), theologian and ethicist
- Bob Wollek (1943âÂÂ2001), rally driver
- Herbert Léonard (born 1945), singer
- Jean-Louis Mandel (born 1946), geneticist
- Joseph Daul (born 1947), politician
- Thierry Mugler (1948âÂÂ2022), 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 Ã
Âafak (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 (1260âÂÂ1328), philosopher
- Johannes Gutenberg (1400âÂÂ1468), inventor of printing with movable type
- Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg (1445âÂÂ1510), preacher
- Erasmus (1467âÂÂ1536), humanist
- Hans Baldung (1484âÂÂ1545), painter
- Beatus Rhenanus (1485âÂÂ1547), humanist
- Caspar Schwenckfeld (1489âÂÂ1561), theologian
- Martin Bucer (1491âÂÂ1551), Reformation leader
- Johannes Sleidanus (1506âÂÂ1556), German historian, the annalist of the Reformation
- Johannes Sturm (1507âÂÂ1589), teacher and pedagogue
- John Calvin (1509âÂÂ1564), Reformation leader
- Michael Servetus (1511âÂÂ1553), Spanish theologian, physician and humanist
- Joachim Meyer (1537?âÂÂ1571), fencer, author of an influential fechtbuch
- Tobias Stimmer (1539âÂÂ1584), Swiss painter
- Johann Carolus (1575âÂÂ1634), German publisher
- François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671âÂÂ1745), marshall and governor of Strasbourg
- Johann Daniel Schöpflin (1694âÂÂ1771), historian and jurist, Goethe's teacher at Strasbourg University
- Franz Xaver Richter (1709âÂÂ1789), composer, eminent member of the Mannheim school
- Johann Hermann (1738âÂÂ1800), French physician and naturalist
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749âÂÂ1832), poet, playwright, novelist, researcher
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751âÂÂ1792), poet
- King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756âÂÂ1825), spent several years in Strasbourg
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756âÂÂ1791), composer, spent 23 days there in 1778
- Ignaz Pleyel (1757âÂÂ1831), served as Kapellmeister at the Cathedral in 1789
- Maximilian von Montgelas (1759âÂÂ1838), Bavarian statesman
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760âÂÂ1836), composer of the Marseillaise
- Klemens von Metternich (1773âÂÂ1859), studied in Strasbourg from 1788 to 1790
- Georg Büchner (1813âÂÂ1837), writer
- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830âÂÂ1889), historian
- Louis Pasteur (1830âÂÂ1895), scientist
- Viktor Nessler (1841âÂÂ1890), composer
- Lujo Brentano (1844âÂÂ1931), economist
- Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850âÂÂ1918), physicist, Nobel Prize
- Albrecht Kossel (1853âÂÂ1927), medical doctor, Nobel Prize
- Georg Simmel (1858âÂÂ1918), sociologist
- Georges Friedel (1865âÂÂ1933), mineralogist, son of Charles Friedel
- Hans Pfitzner (1869âÂÂ1949), composer
- Fritz Beblo (1872âÂÂ1947), architect
- Jean-Jacques Waltz aka Hansi (1873âÂÂ1951), artist
- Albert Schweitzer (1875âÂÂ1965), theologian, philosopher, physician and musician
- Paul Rohmer (1876âÂÂ1977), physician, considered as one of the fathers of modern paediatrics
- Maurice Halbwachs (1877âÂÂ1945), sociologist
- Otto MeiÃÂner (1880âÂÂ1953), politician, father of Hans-Otto Meissner
- Otto Klemperer (1885âÂÂ1973), conductor
- Marc Bloch (1886âÂÂ1944), historian and resistant
- Hans Rosbaud (1895âÂÂ1962), conductor
- George Szell (1897âÂÂ1970), conductor
- Emmanuel Lévinas (1906âÂÂ1995), philosopher
- Maurice Blanchot (1907âÂÂ2003), writer and philosopher
- Pierre Pflimlin (1907âÂÂ2000), politician
- Lucie Aubrac (born 1912) and Raymond Aubrac (born 1914), founding members of the Résistance
- Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912âÂÂ2003), jurist, member of the Résistance
- Ernest Bour (1913âÂÂ2001), conductor
- Paul Ricoeur (1913âÂÂ2005), philosopher
- Salomon Gluck (1914âÂÂ1944), physician, member of the Résistance
- Rose Warfman (born 1916), nurse, survivor of Auschwitz and member of the Résistance
- Hélène Boschi (1917âÂÂ1990) pianist
- René Thom (1923âÂÂ2002), mathematician
- Guy Debord (1931âÂÂ1994), 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 (1940âÂÂ2007), 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 (1948âÂÂ1989), playwright
- Barbara Honigmann (born 1949), German writer and painter
- Pierre Moerlen (1952âÂÂ2005), 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