List of University of Leipzig people

The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of Leipzig.

Notable alumni

* Georgius Agricola, Saxon mining engineer and natural philosopher
* Joseph L. Armstrong, American academic
* Lothar Bisky, German politician
* Marc Bloch, French historian
* Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Polish linguist and slavist
* Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer
* James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist
* William David Coolidge, American physicist
* Émile Durkheim, French sociologist
* Friedrich Adolf Ebert, Saxon librarian
* Gustav Fechner, German psychologist
* Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher and sociologist
* Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor

* Kurt Albert Gerlach, German sociologist
* Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet
* Gotthard Günther, German-American philosopher
* Edith Hamilton, American essayist and educator (together with her sister Alice, she was the first female student of the university)
* Johann Adam Hiller, Saxon composer
* Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician
* Ulrich von Hutten, Hessian humanist and political leader
* Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician
* Wolfgang Iser, German literary theorist
* Jan Jesenius, Slovak doctor
* Uwe Johnson, German writer and translator
* Ernst Jünger, German novelist and nationalist activist
* Erich Kähler, German mathematician
* Erich Kästner, German satirist and children's writer
* Paul Kirchhoff, German anthropologist and ethnohistorian
* Johannes Knolleisen, canon in Merseburg
* Alexander Kohut, Hungarian-American rabbi and Orientalist
* Victor Lange, American Germanist
* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher
* August Leskien, German linguist
* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and writer
* Rudolf Leuckart, German Zoologist
* Karl Liebknecht, German communist activist
* Lin Yutang, Chinese novelist and inventor
* Virgil Madgearu, Romanian economist and sociologist
* Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish anthropologist
* Sándor Márai, Hungarian poet and novelist
* Angela Merkel, German politician, first female Chancellor
* Thomas Müntzer, Thuringian theologian and rebellion leader
* Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist
* Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
* Novalis, German writer and philosopher
* George Pardee, American doctor and politician
* Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian Marxist sociologist and politician
* James Phelan, Jr., American politician
* Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist and historian
* Alexander Radishchev, Russian political thinker
* Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Romanian psychologist and philosopher
* Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German botanist and physician
* Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist
* Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist
* Kurt Schumacher, German politician
* Robert Schumann, German composer
* Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer
* Edward Teller, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
* Galsan Tschinag, Tuvan-German author and poet
* Dimitri Uznadze, Georgian psychologist
* Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher
* Richard Wagner, German composer
* Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician
* Gustav Zeuner, German physicist and engineer
* Jeff Radebe, South African Politician
* Gu Hongming, or Ku Hung-ming, Malaysian Chinese man of letters
* Ku Hung-ming, or Gu Hongming, Malaysian Chinese man of letters
* Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian politician

Notable faculty

* Ernst Bloch, philosopher
* Karl Brugmann, comparative linguist
* Karl Bücher, economist
* Peter Debye, physicist, 1927-1936 Director of the Physics Institute, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936
* Gustav Fechner, psychologist
* Hans Freyer, sociologist
* Paul Flechsig, neurologist
* Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, theologian and poet
* Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, publisher of the "Annalen der Physik".
* Rudolf Gottschall, critic, poet and dramatist
* Johann Christoph Gottsched, philologist
* Werner Heisenberg, physicist, 1927-1942, Professor of Theoretical Physics, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932
* Gustav Ludwig Hertz, physicist, 1954-1961, Head of the Physics Institute, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925, together with James Franck
* Felix Klein, mathematician
* Werner Krauss, Romanist
* Aleksandar Belić, Serbian linguist
* Karl Lamprecht, historian
* August Leskien, linguist
* Wilhelm Maurenbrecher, historian
* August Ferdinand Möbius, astronomer and mathematician
* Theodor Mommsen, historian, 1848-1851 Professor of Law, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902 for his book The History of Rome
* Petrus Mosellanus, Greek scholar
* Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist, 1887-1906 Chair of Physical Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909
* Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, botanist
* Wilhelm Roscher, economist
* Nathan Söderblom, religious historian, Director of the Religious Studies Institute 1912-1914, Nobel Peace Prize in 1930
* Christian Thomasius, philosopher
* Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, physicist
* Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, mathematician
* Ernst Heinrich Weber, physician
* Wilhelm Wundt, physicist, psychologist
* Paul Zweifel, physician, physiologist