Notable people of Strasbourg

*"Main article": Strasbourg

Born in Strasbourg

Strasbourg was the birthplace of:
* Gottfried von Straßburg (12th century) poet
* Sebastian Brant (1457-1521), satirical poet and humanist
* Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489-1553) Protestant statesman and reformist
* Katharina Zell (1497-1568), Protestant writer.
* 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)
* Oscar Berger-Levrault (1826-1903), philatelist
* Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber (1830-1903), botanician
* 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
* 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), rallye driver
* Herbert Léonard (born 1945), singer
* Joseph Daul (born 1947), politician
* Francis Wurtz (born 1948), politician
* Arsène Wenger OBE, (born 1949), football manager
* 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
* M. Pokora (born 1985), singer

Famous residents of Strasbourg

"See also : University of Strasbourg#Notable academics and alumni"
* 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
* 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 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 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
* 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 (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
* Ségolène Royal (born 1953), leading member of the "Parti Socialiste", went to school in Strasbourg.
* Rodolphe Burger (born 1957), musician
* John Howe (born 1957), artist
* Mireille Delunsch (born 1962), soprano
* Marjane Satrapi (born 1969), comic-strip artist.