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List of people from Frankfurt

This list contains notable people both born in Frankfurt and residents of the city, ordered chronologically.

Born in Frankfurt

9th to 17th centuries

18th century

  • Karl Wilhelm (1754–1782), Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

19th century

1801–1820

1821–1840

1841–1860

1861–1880

  • Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry
  • Moritz Geiger (1880–1937), philosopher
  • Karl von Roques (1880–1949), general and war criminal during World War II
  • Paul Maas (1880–1964), classical scholar

1881–1900

20th century

1901–1910

  • Kurt H. Debus (1908–1983), spaceflight scientist
  • Rudolf Gramlich (1908–1988), football player and chairman
  • Arthur Dreifuss (1908–1993), film director and occasional producer and screenwriter
  • Kurt Hessenberg (1908–1994), composer and professor
  • John Slade (1908–2005), American Olympic field hockey player and Wall Street broker
  • Edgar Weil (1908–1941), Germanist, dramaturge, and merchant

1911–1920

1921–1930

1931–1940

  • Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012), historian
  • August Hobl (born 1931), former motorcycle road racer
  • Lis Verhoeven (1931–2019), actress and theatre director
  • Rainer K. Sachs (1932–2024), German-American computational radiation biologist and astronomer
  • Hans Krieger (1933–2023), writer, essayist, journalist of influential weekly papers, broadcaster, and poet
  • Mary Bauermeister (1934–2023), artist
  • Erwin Conradi (born 1935), manager in trade business
  • Michael Horovitz (1935–2021), German-born British poet, editor, visual artist, and translator
  • Gisela Kessler (1935–2014), trade unionist

1941–1950

  • Gerd Binnig (born 1947), physicist and Nobel laureate

1951–1960

1961–1970

  • Peter Thiel (born 1967), American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager
  • Andreas Paulus (born 1968), jurist
  • Uwe Schmidt (born 1968), composer, musician, and producer of electronic music

1971–1980

1981–1990

1991–2000

Notable residents of Frankfurt

8th to 17th centuries

  • Charlemagne (born between 742 and 748; died 814), King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany
  • Fastrada (765–794), East Frankish noblewoman
  • Louis the German (c. 810–876), grandson of Charlemagne and third son of the succeeding Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye
  • Louis the Younger (born between 830 and 835; died 882), second eldest son of Louis the German and Emma who succeeded his father as King of Saxony and his elder brother Carloman as King of Bavaria
  • Johannes von Soest (1448–1506), composer, theorist, and poet
  • Conrad Faber von Kreuznach (born c. 1500; died between 1552 and 1553), painter and woodcuts designer
  • Jacob Micyllus (1503–1558), Renaissance humanist and teacher
  • Adam Lonicer (1528–1586), botanist
  • Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer

18th century

19th century

  • Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), composer, violist, violinist, teacher, and conductor
  • Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), politician affiliated with the CDU and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1963 until 1966
  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000), first female Austrian architect and an activist in the Nazi resistance movement

20th century

1901–1910

  • Kurt Thomas (1904–1973), composer, conductor, and music educator
  • Hans Bethe (1906–2005), German–American nuclear physicist
  • Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), industrialist, spy, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust
  • Alexander Mitscherlich (1908–1982), psychologist
  • Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), Silesian-German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist

1911–1920

1921–1930

  • Reinhard Goerdeler (1922–1996), accountant instrumental in founding KPMG, a leading international firm of accountants
  • Arno Lustiger (1924–2012), historian and author
  • Horst Streckenbach (1925–2001), tattoo artist and historian of the medium
  • Hilmar Hoffmann (1925–2018), cultural functionary and director
  • Ignatz Bubis (1927–1999), chairman (and later president) of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland)
  • Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel; 1928–2024), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
  • Karl-Hermann Flach (1929–1973), journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau, and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP)
  • Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism
  • Helmut Kohl (1930–2017), conservative politician and statesman

1931–1940

  • Alfred Schmidt (1931–2012), philosopher
  • Walter Wallmann (1932–2013), politician
  • Rosemarie Nitribitt (1933–1957), luxury call girl whose violent death caused a scandal in the Wirtschaftswunder years
  • Michael Grzimek (1934–1959), zoologist, conservationist, and filmmaker
  • Albert Speer Jr. (1934–2017), architect and urban planner
  • Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 1936), pope of the Catholic Church, spent several months at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt
  • F. K. Waechter (1937–2005), cartoonist, author, and playwright
  • Robert Gernhardt (1937–2006), writer, painter, caricaturist, and poet
  • Barbara Klemm (born 1939), photographer, worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for 45 years

1941–1950

1951–2000

References

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