List of people from Breslau
- List of people from Breslau
This list includes people who were born in or lived in Wrocław/Breslau before 1945. For a list of famous residents after 1945, see List of notable people from Wrocław
* Alois Alzheimer - discoverer of Alzheimer's Disease.
* Adolf Anderssen - 19th-century chess master.
* Max Berg — architect, designer of "Centennial Hall".
* Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Lutheran clergyman, religious leader in the resistance movement against Nazism.
* August Borsig - entrepreneur.
* Ernst Cassirer - philosopher.
* Ferdinand Cohn - biologist
* Richard Courant - mathematician
* Jan Dzierżon - apiarist.
* Norbert Elias - sociologist
* Otfrid Förster — neuro-surgeon.
* Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat - virologist
* Zecharias Frankel - rabbi and founder of Conservative Judaism
* Felix Hausdorff - mathematician, one of the founders of algebraic topology
* Johann Heß - lutheran theologian, Protestant reformer of Breslau and Silesia
* Heinz Hopf - mathematician (topology)
* Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau - Baroque poet
* Karl Eduard von Holtei - poet and actor
* Vernon Ingram - biologist.
* Alfred Kerr - theatre critic and essayist
* Gerhard Kittel - New Testament scholar and philologist
* Gustav Robert Kirchhoff - physicist
* Wojciech Korfanty - political activist
* Otto Klemperer (* 1885) - conductor
* Carl Ferdinand Langhans - architect
* Carl Gotthard Langhans - architect
* Daniel Casper von Lohenstein - poet and diplomat
* Ferdinand Lassalle - socialist politician and reformer
* Carl Friedrich Lessing - artist
* Rudolf Meidner - economist and socialist theorist
* Max Born - Physicist
* Joachim Meisner - Cardinal priest and archbishop of Cologne
* Adolph von Menzel - artist
* Jan Mikulicz-Radecki - surgeon, contributed to development of modern surgery
* Edda Moser - soprano opera singer
* Louis Prang - printer, lithographer and publisher
* Manfred von Richthofen - WWI flying ace
* Julius von Sachs - botanist
* Johann Gottfried Scheibel - theological professor and dissenter to the Prussian Union
* Friedrich Schleiermacher - theologian and philosopher
* Angelus Silesius - 17th century religious poet
* Edith Stein - philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr
* Fritz Stern - historian
* Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben - inspector general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
* Siegbert Tarrasch - chess player
* Michel Thomas - war hero and language teacher
* Christian Wolff - philosopher
Nobel laureates
"listed by year of award"
* 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)
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