List of people from Wrocław

People born in Wrocław.

Before 1945

• Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) a psychiatrist and neuropathologist, discovered Alzheimer's disease
• Paul Amman (1634–1691), German physician and botanist.
• Günther Anders (1902–1992) a German-Austrian Jewish émigré, philosopher, essayist and journalist.
• Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879) a German chess master.
• Đorđe Andrejević-Kun (1904–1964), a Serbian painter and academic.
• Heinz Arndt (1915–2002), an Australian economist
• Leopold Auerbach (1828–1897), a German anatomist and neuropathologist
• Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis (1517–1568), a Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer.
• Bertha Badt-Strauss (1885–1970), a German writer and Zionist.
• Boleslaw Barlog (1906–1999), a German stage, film and opera director
• Erhard Bauschke (1912–1945), a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader.
• Max Berg (1870–1947), a German architect and urban planner, designed the Centennial Hall
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Lutheran clergyman, leader of the resistance against Nazism
• Max Born (1882–1970), a German physicist and mathematician, developed quantum mechanics
• August Borsig (1804–1854), a German businessman who made steam engines
• Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), a German philosopher, main interests: Epistemology & aesthetics
• Hendrik Claudius (c1655–1697), painter and apothecary
• Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898), a biologist, a founder of modern bacteriology and microbiology.
• Richard Courant (1888–1972), a German American mathematician, wrote What Is Mathematics?
• Harri Czepuck (1927–2015), a German journalist.
• Walter Damrosch (1862–1950), an American conductor and composer.
• John Gunther Dean (1926–2019), an American diplomat, the United States ambassador to five nations.
• Johann Dzierzon (1811–1906), a Polish beekeeper, discovered parthenogenesis in bees.
• Hermann von Eichhorn (1848–1918), a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall during WWI.
• Norbert Elias (1897–1990), a German/British sociologist, worked on civilizing/decivilizing processes.
• Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein (1797-1885), a Prussian General der Infanterie
• Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (1873–1942), a German botanist.
• George Forell (1919–2011), a scholar, author, lecturer and guest professor re. Christian ethics.
• Otfrid Förster (1873–1941) a German neurologist and neurosurgeon
• Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999) a biochemist, researched viruses.
• Zecharias Frankel (1801–1875), rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism
• Hans Freeman (1929–2008), Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer
• Protásio Frikel (1912–1974), German-Brazilian missionary and anthropologist
• Maria Frisé (1926–2022), German author and journalist
• Friedrich von Gentz (1764–1832), a German diplomat and writer.
• Alfred Gomolka (1942–2020), a German politician and MEP
• Rudolf von Gottschall (1823–1909), a German poet, dramatist, literary critic and literary historian.
• Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology
• Martin Helwig (1516–1574) a German cartographer, created the first map of Silesia
• Sir George Henschel (1850–1934) a British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer.
• Johann Heß (1490–1547), Lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
• Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616–1679) a German poet of the Baroque era
• August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1784–1853), a German general and nobleman.
• Karl von Holtei (1798–1880), German poet and actor.
• E. A. J. Honigmann (1927–2011), a British scholar of English Literature
• Heinz Hopf (1894–1971), a German mathematician who worked on topology and geometry.
• Vernon Ingram (1924–2006), a German–American academic professor of biology in the US.
• Gustav Adolph Kenngott (1818–1897), a German mineralogist.
• Alfred Kerr (1867–1948), theatre critic and essayist
• Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887), a German physicist, dealt with electrical circuits and spectroscopy
• Gerhard Kittel (1888–1948), a German Lutheran theologian and lexicographer of biblical languages.
• Otto Klemperer (1885–1973), orchestral conductor and composer
• August Kopisch (1799–1853), a German poet and painter.
• Wojciech Korfanty (1873–1939), a Polish activist, journalist and politician.
• Arthur Korn (1870–1945), physicist, invented transmission of photographs by facsimile and wireless
• Arthur Korn (1891–1978), a German architect and urban planner, proponent of modernism
• Carl Ferdinand Langhans (1782–1869), a Prussian architect whose specialty was theatres.
• Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808), a Prussian master builder and royal architect.
• Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864), a Prussian-German jurist, philosopher and socialist.
• Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), a German historical and landscape painter.
• Marie Leszczyńska (1703 in Trzebnica – 1768), Queen consort of France.
• Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635–1683), a Baroque Silesian playwright, lawyer, diplomat and poet
• Peter Lorre (1904–1964), an Austrian-Hungarian and American actor.
• Georg Lunge (1839–1923), a German chemist.
• Rudolf Meidner (1914–2005), a Swedish economist and socialist theorist
• Joachim Meisner (1933–2017), Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
• Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings and paintings.
• Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850-1905), surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
• Richard Mohaupt (1904–1957), a German composer and Kapellmeister.
• Edda Moser (born 1938), a German operatic soprano.
• Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925), a composer, pianist and teacher of Polish-Jewish descent.
• Sepp Piontek (1940–2026), German footballer and football coach
• Hugo von Pohl (1855–1916), a German admiral, commander of High Seas Fleet
• Louis Prang (1824–1909), printer, lithographer and publisher
• Y. Michel Rabbinowicz (1892 - ?), author
• Michael Oser Rabin (born 1931), mathematician and computer scientist
• Manfred von Richthofen (1892–1918), World War I flying ace (the "Red Baron")
• Oskar von Riesenthal (1830–1898) a German forester, ornithologist, hunter and writer.
• Ludwig Rosenfelder (1813-1881), German painter
• Horst Rosenthal (1915–1942), German-born French cartoonist
• Julius von Sachs (1832–1897), a German botanist.
• Johann Gottfried Scheibel (1783–1843), theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union
• Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) a Reformed theologian, philosopher and biblical scholar
• Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), a German feminist, educator, journalist and women's rights activist.
• W.E. Scholz (1807 or 1808–1866), German composer and conductor
• Margarethe Siems (1879–1952), a German operatic coloratura soprano
• Angelus Silesius (ca.1624–1677), a German Catholic priest, physician, mystic and religious poet.
• Karl Slotta (1895–1987), biochemist
• Edith Stein (1891–1942), philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
• Michael Steinberg (1928–2009) an American music critic and author
• Fritz Stern (1926–2016), American historian of German & Jewish history and historiography.
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), Inspector General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
• Siegbert Tarrasch (1862–1934), chess player
• Augustin Theiner ((1804–1874), theologian and Church historian of the Vatican Apostolic Archive
• August Tholuck (1799–1877), a German Protestant theologian, pastor and historian.
• Michel Thomas (1914–2005), war hero and language teacher.
• Heinz Henry Todtmann (1908–1975), German-Jewish journalist and NS collaborator.
• Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583) a German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer.
• Christian Wolff (1679–1754), a German philosopher.
• Adolf Wuttke (1819–1870) a German Protestant theologian.
• Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706–1751), publisher of a German encyclopedia, the Grosses Universal-Lexicon.

After 1945

• Jan Borysewicz - guitar player, composer, leader of the rock band Lady Pank
• Leszek Czarnecki - businessman and billionaire
• Artur Ekert - physicist
• Władysław Frasyniuk - politician
• Jolanta Fraszyńska, actress
• Robert Fudali - sole member of black metal band Graveland
• Waldemar Fydrych - alias "Major"; artist, founder of the Orange Alternative happening movement
• Eugeniusz Geppert - painter
• Kamil Giżycki - writer and traveler
• Jerzy Grotowski - theatre director and theatrical avant-garde figure
• Mirosław Hermaszewski - cosmonaut
• Ludwik Hirszfeld - microbiologist, co-discover of the inheritance of the BO blood type
• Marek Hłasko - novelist, writer
• Hubert Hurkacz - tennis player
• Klaudia Jachira - politician and comedian
• Lech Janerka - singer, musician and composer
• Ewa Klonowski - forensic anthropologist
• Aleksandr Ivanovich Korolyov - vice-president of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
• Urszula Kozioł - poet
• Marek Krajewski - writer
• Wojciech Kurtyka - mountain climber
• Aleksandra Kurzak - opera singer
• Olaf Lubaszenko - actor and film director
• Jan Łopuszański - physicist
• Mata - rapper
• Mateusz Morawiecki - politician, former Prime Minister of Poland
• Rafał Omelko - athlete
• Piotr Ponikowski - cardiologist
• Tadeusz Różewicz - poet and writer
• Wanda Rutkiewicz - mountaineer
• Selma Nicklass-Kempner - soprano
• Andrzej Sekuła - cinematographer and film director
• Hugo Steinhaus - mathematician
• Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski - chemist and physicist
• Michał Witkowski - writer
• Rafał Wojaczek - poet
• Dagmara Wozniak (born 1988) - Polish-American U.S. Olympic sabre fencer
• Maciej Å»urowski - historian of French literature, translator,

Nobel laureates

<small>listed by year of award </small>

• Theodor Mommsen (1902)
• Philipp Lenard (1905)
• Eduard Buchner (1907)
• Paul Ehrlich (1908)
• Gerhart Hauptmann (1912)
• Fritz Haber (1918)
• Friedrich Bergius (1931)
• Erwin Schrödinger (1933)
• Otto Stern (1943)
• Max Born (1954)
• Reinhard Selten (1994)

References