- List of Strasbourg people
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- Main article: Strasbourg
Born in Strasbourg
Jean-Baptiste Kléber
Strasbourg was the birthplace of:
- Gottfried von Straßburg (12th century) poet
- Johannes Tauler (1300–1361), mystic and theologian
- Sebastian Brant (1457–1521), satirical poet and humanist
- Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489–1553) Protestant statesman and reformist
- Katharina Zell (1497–1568), Protestant writer
- Daniel Specklin (1536–1589), architect, engineer and cartographer
- Sebastian Stoskopff (1597–1657), painter
- Johann Fischart (1546–1590), satirical author
- Albrecht Kauw (1621–1681), painter
- Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (1724–1797), Austrian field marshal
- François Christophe Kellermann (1735–1820), French marshall
- Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812), painter
- Jean-Frédéric Oberlin (1740–1826), pastor and philanthropist
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner (1747–1779), writer
- Jean Baptiste Kléber (1753–1800), general
- Louis Ramond de Carbonnières (1755–1827), politician, geologist and botanist)
- Marie Tussaud (1761–1850), founder of Madame Tussauds
- Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (1776–1856), clockmaker
- Jean-Georges Humann (1780–1842), statesman
- Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786–1868)
- Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1818–1856), French chemist
- Oscar Berger-Levrault (1826–1903), philatelist
- Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber (1830–1903), botanist
- Gustave Doré (1832–1883), painter
- Charles Friedel (1832–1899), chemist and mineralogist
- Émile Waldteufel (Charles Émile Lévy) (1837–1915), composer
- Édouard Schuré (1841–1929), philosopher
- Paul Émile Appell (1855–1930), mathematician
- Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916), Christian mystic
- Jean/Hans Arp (1886–1966), artist
- Robert Heger (1886–1978), conductor
- Charles Münch (1891–1968), conductor
- Marcelle Cahn (1895–1981), artist
- Hans Bethe (1906–2005), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- Hans-Otto Meissner (1909–1992), writer
- Max Bense (1910–1990), philosopher
- Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (1913–1957), poet
- Camille Claus (1920–2005), painter
- Jacques Martin (born 1921), comic-book artist
- Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), mime
- Claude Rich (born 1929), actor
- Tomi Ungerer (born 1931), illustrator and caricaturist
- Solange Fernex (1934–2006), politician
- Marc Gilbert (1934–1982), TV producer
- Liliane Ackermann (1938–2007), French Jewish Community leader
- Gilbert Gress (born 1941), football coach
- Jean-Pierre Hubert (1941–2006), author
- Bob Wollek (1943–2001), rally driver
- Herbert Léonard (born 1945), singer
- Joseph Daul (born 1947), politician
- Francis Wurtz (born 1948), politician
- Arsène Wenger OBE, (born 1949), football manager
- Jean-Marie Bockel (born 1950), politician
- Catherine Trautmann (born 1951), politician
- Christophe Ohrel (born 1968), football player
- Eliette Abécassis (born 1969), writer
- Yann Wehrling (born 1971), artist and leader of the French Green Party
- Elif Şafak (born 1971), writer
- Valérien Ismaël (born 1975), football player
- Armando Teixeira (born 1976), football player
- Salomé Haller, soprano
- Mehdi Baala, (born 1978), athlete
- Paul-Henri Mathieu (born 1982), tennis-player
- Karim Matmour (born 1985), footballer
- M. Pokora (born 1985), singer
- Candice Didier (born 1988), figure Skater
Famous residents of Strasbourg
- Meister Eckhart (1260–1328), philosopher
- Johann 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 de Broglie (1671–1745), marshall and governor of Strasbourg
Johann Wolfgang Goethe- 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 Wenzel 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Rodolphe Burger (born 1957), musician
- John Howe (born 1957), artist
- Mireille Delunsch (born 1962), soprano
- Marjane Satrapi (born 1969), comic-strip artist.
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