Bonn related persons

This list shows people who have special ties to the Federal City of Bonn . See also the list of personalities at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Born in Bonn

The following people were born in Bonn or the districts that are now part of Bonn:

Until the 18th century

• Ephraim of Bonn , * 1132; † 1200, Jewish chronicler
• Katharina Curtius , † 1629, was a victim of the witch hunt in Bonn
• Adolf Sigismund von Burman , * February 2, 1637; † September 8, 1701, dean at the monastery of St. Cassius and Florentius
• Johann Peter von Burmann , * 1642; † February 1, 1696 in Liège, auxiliary bishop
• Johann Peter Salomon , *? (baptized February 20, 1745); † November 25, 1815 in London, musician
• Bernhard Franz Josef von Gerolt , born September 15, 1747; † January 30, 1828 in Bonn, electoral Cologne privy councilor, member of the quay. French legislative body, honorary grave on the Poppelsdorf cemetery
• Peter Josef Cramer von Clausagh , * December 17, 1752; † August 11, 1820 in Unkel, priest and official in the Archdiocese of Cologne
• Johann Peter Eichhoff , born October 1, 1755; † February 24, 1825 in Rheydt, publicist, historian of the Rhineland and civil servant in the French service
• Franz Anton Ries , born November 10, 1755; † November 1, 1846 in Bonn, violinist and violin teacher Ludwig van Beethoven
• Adam Martin , born November 25, 1760; † May 11, 1819 in Düsseldorf, associate professor of law at the Düsseldorf Law Academy
• Johann Joseph Eichhoff , born May 18, 1762; † December 2, 1827 in Kessenich, civil servant in the French service
• Karl Klemens von Gruben , born November 23, 1764; † July 4, 1827 in Hildesheim, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Osnabrück and Cologne, diocese administrator of Hildesheim
• Kaspar Anton von Mastiaux , * 1766; † December 28, 1828 in Munich, canon and privy councilor
• Bartholomäus Fischenich , born August 2, 1768; July 4, 1831 in Berlin, judge at the Bonn Tribunal, 1st instance
• Ludwig van Beethoven , born December 16, 1770; † March 26, 1827 in Vienna, composer (symphonies, concerts, songs, etc.)
• Salomon Oppenheim junior , born June 19, 1772; † November 8, 1828 in Mainz, banker
• Johann Christoph Winters , born November 23, 1772; † August 5, 1862 in Cologne, founder of the Hänneschen Theater
• Stephan von Breuning , born August 17, 1774; † June 4, 1827 in Vienna, librettist
• Franz von Gruben , born September 26, 1774; † February 4, 1848 in Koblenz, district administrator in the Ahrweiler district from 1816 to 1820
• Josef Guisez , born April 12, 1784; † December 5, 1848 in Aachen, administrative officer, police director and district administrator in Aachen
• Jakob Liessem , April 29, 1785 (baptism); † May 1, 1832 in Bernkastel, district administrator in the Bernkastel district
• Johann Josef Scotti , born May 7, 1787; † April 3, 1866 in Düsseldorf, administrative officer
• Rachel Zuntz , * 1787; † January 21, 1874 in Bonn, entrepreneur and co-founder of A. Zuntz sel. Wwe. In Bonn
• Peter Joseph Lenné , born September 29, 1789; † January 23, 1866 in Potsdam, gardener and landscape architect
• Hermann Josef Neefe , born September 3, 1790; † February 24, 1854 in Vienna, painter
• Friedrich Hohenschutz , born May 16, 1796; † August 23, 1856 in Cologne, landowner, district deputy and district administrator
• Friedrich von Gerolt , born March 5, 1797; † July 27, 1879 in Linz, diplomat, longest serving ambassador of Germany in Washington D. C., USA

19th century

1801-1850

• Karl Joseph Simrock , born August 28, 1802; † July 18, 1876 in Bonn, writer and Germanist
• Johann Baptist Rousseau , born December 31, 1802; † October 8, 1867 in Cologne, poet and journalist
• Friedrich Joseph Ark , born June 30, 1807; † February 23, 1878 in Aachen; Architect and construction officer, from 1839 to 1877 as Aachen city architect
• Friedrich Rudolf Hasse , born June 29, 1808; † October 14, 1862 in Bonn; theologian
• Nikolaus Becker , born October 8, 1809; † August 28, 1845 in Hünshoven, poet of the Rhine song
• Hermann Heidel , born February 20, 1810; † September 29, 1865 in Stuttgart, sculptor
• Johanna Kinkel , born July 8, 1810; † November 15, 1858 in London, composer and writer
• Moses Hess , born June 21, 1812; † April 6, 1875 in Paris, philosopher and writer
• Johann Gottfried Kinkel , born August 11, 1815 in Oberkassel; † November 12, 1882 in Zurich, theologian, writer and politician
• Albert Cahn , * 1816; † 1886 in Plittersdorf, German-Jewish banker
• Alexander Kaufmann , born May 14, 1817; † May 1, 1893 in Wertheim, writer and archivist
• Siegmar zu Dohna-Schlobitten , born December 29, 1818; † February 21, 1909 in Charlottenburg, Prussian lieutenant general
• Hermann Bleibtreu , born March 4, 1821 in Pützchen near Bonn; † April 25, 1881 in Bonn, chemist
• Leopold Kaufmann , born March 13, 1821; † February 27, 1898 in Bonn, Lord Mayor
• Julius von Haast , born May 1, 1822; † August 16, 1887 in Christchurch, New Zealand, professor of geology
• Karl Friedrich Werner Nasse , born June 7, 1822; † January 20, 1889 in Bonn, psychiatrist
• Otto von Scholley , born September 8, 1823; † March 8, 1907 in Vienna, Austrian field marshal lieutenant
• Johann Wilhelm Hittorf , born March 27, 1824; † November 28, 1914 in Münster, physicist and chemist
• Dietrich Brandis , born March 31, 1824; † May 28, 1907 in Bonn, botanist
• Hubert Engels , born August 2, 1824; † September 8, 1891 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, music director, composer and violinist
• Balduin Möllhausen , born January 27, 1825; † May 28, 1905 in Berlin, traveler and writer
• Maurus Wolter , born June 4, 1825; † July 8, 1890 in Beuron, Benedictine, founder and first Archabbot of the Beuron Archabbey and the Beuron Congregation
• Peter Hauptmann , born September 25, 1825; † May 28, 1895 in Bonn, publisher and politician
• Placidus Wolter * April 24, 1828; † September 13, 1908 in Beuron, Benedictine, co-founder and second archabbot of the Beuron Archabbey and the Beuron Congregation
• Erwin Nasse , born December 2, 1829; † January 4, 1890, political economist
• Berthold von Nasse , born December 9, 1831; † November 30, 1906 in Bonn, Prussian state official
• Mathias Frickel , born May 9, 1833; † March 16, 1911 in Bonn, painter
• Hermann Wallich , born December 28, 1833; † April 30, 1928 in Berlin, banker and bank manager
• Wilhelm Boller , born July 9, 1835; † May 15, 1921 in Braunschweig, German wallpaper manufacturer
• August Reifferscheid , born October 3, 1835; † November 10, 1887 in Strasbourg, philologist
• Tony Avenarius , born April 17, 1836; † January 31, 1901 in Cologne, graphic artist and composer
• Wilhelm Maurenbrecher , born December 21, 1838; † November 6, 1892 in Leipzig, historian
• Antonius Maria Bodewig , born November 2, 1839; † January 8, 1915 in Rome, Jesuit, missionary and founder of an order
• Moriz Ritter , born January 16, 1840; † December 28, 1923 in Bonn, historian
• Eduard Müller , born June 9, 1841; † August 16, 1926 in Koblenz, lawyer and politician (center)
• Eugen Sell , born April 5, 1842; † October 13, 1896 in Berlin, food chemist
• Carl Leonhard Becker , born May 5, 1843; † January 6, 1917, painter and engraver
• Gottfried Kinkel , born July 11, 1844 in Poppelsdorf; † May 22, 1891 ibid, classical philologist
• Carl Heinrich Gerhardt , born December 7, 1846; † 1907 in Bonn, entrepreneur
• Nathan Zuntz , born October 7, 1847; † March 23, 1920 in Berlin, doctor
• Emil Ungar , born September 3, 1849; † April 13, 1934 in Bonn, forensic doctor

1851-1900

• Ferdinand August Schmidt , born July 25, 1852; † February 14, 1929 in Bonn, doctor
• Anselma Heine , born June 18, 1855; † November 9, 1930 in Berlin, writer
• Felix Hauptmann , born February 8, 1856; † October 24, 1934, lawyer, politician and heraldist
• Max Cronenberg , born October 26, 1857; † December 24, 1924 in Rolandswerth, architect
• Paul Wolters , born September 1, 1858; † October 21, 1936 in Munich, Professor of Classical Archeology
• Johannes Freiherr von Diergardt , born September 13, 1859; † 1934 in Warnemünde, Rhenish aristocrat and collector of early medieval art
• Aennchen Schumacher , born January 22, 1860; † February 26, 1935 in Bonn, landlady
• Dietrich Nasse , born November 5, 1860; † September 1, 1898 near Pontresina, surgeon
• Johann Schwister , October 11, 1862; † May 5, 1921 in Bonn, architect and building contractor
• Heinrich Roettgen , born January 10, 1863; † March 6, 1932, architect
• Heino Adolf Achenbach , born August 14, 1863; † November 11, 1933 in Bonn, Prussian civil servant and district administrator
• Alfred Philippson , born January 1, 1864; † March 28, 1953 in Bonn, geographer
• Johanna Elberskirchen , born April 11, 1864; † May 17, 1943 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin, feminist writer and activist
• Karl Vogelsang , born August 2, 1866; † March 16, 1920 in Eisleben, geologist and head of mining and smelting
• Hans Eschelbach , born February 16, 1868; † March 14, 1948 in Innsbruck, writer
• Arthur Binz , born November 12, 1868; † January 25, 1943 in Berlin, chemist
• Sophia Becker-Leber * March 20, 1869; † April 11, 1952 in Bergdorf, painter
• Wilhelm Ruland , born October 15, 1869; † July 29, 1927 in Munich, writer
• Wilhelm Weinreis , * 1872 in Friesdorf; † August 13, 1906 in Bonn, architect
• Gottfried Kentenich , born May 17, 1873; † October 9, 1939 in Bonn, historian and librarian
• Friedrich Saemisch , born December 23, 1869; † October 23, 1945 in Freiburg, civil servant and politician
• Henriette Schmidt-Bonn , born December 5, 1873; † April 27, 1946 in Willingshausen, artist
• Carl Ferdinand van Vleuten , born October 20, 1874; † 1945, doctor and writer
• Wilhelm Schmidtbonn , born February 6, 1876 (as Wilhelm Schmidt); † July 3, 1952 in Bad Godesberg, writer
• Carl Nonn , born April 29, 1876; † June 25, 1949 in Bonn, painter
• Johannes Henry , born June 18, 1876; † September 2, 1958 in Bonn, lawyer and politician (Center Party)
• Gottfried von Dryander , born November 30, 1876; † September 18, 1951 in Urbino, Italy, member of the Reichstag
• Robert Bürgers , born June 18, 1877 in Plittersdorf; † October 30, 1944 in Cologne-Lindenthal, banker and politician (center), member of the Reichstag
• Max Alsberg , born October 16, 1877; † September 10, 1933, lawyer
• Wilhelm Vershofen , born December 25, 1878; † April 30, 1960 in Tiefenbach (Oberstdorf), economist
• Edgar Meyer , born March 5, 1879; † February 29, 1960 in Zurich, physicist
• Rudolph Firle , born September 14, 1881; † July 2, 1969 in Bremen, naval officer, publicist and director of North German Lloyd
• Otto Wolff , born April 8, 1881; † January 22, 1940 in Berlin, entrepreneur
• Franz Virnich , born March 28, 1882; † April 5, 1943 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison, lawyer, victim of National Socialism
• Heinrich Bachem , born September 7, 1882; † 1934 in Berlin-Nikolassee, lawyer, administrative officer and member of the Reichsrat
• Rudolf Haarmann , born June 8, 1883; † April 23, 1962 in Hann. Münden, Mayor of Hann. Münden
• Wilhelm Schmidt , born February 21, 1884; † February 14, 1974 in Langen, zoologist
• Paul Trendelenburg , born March 24, 1884; † February 4, 1931 in Berlin, pharmacologist
• Alexander Heinrich Alef , born February 2, 1885; † February 16, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp, Catholic priest
• Clemens Julius Mangner , * 1885; † after 1955, architect
• Kurt Wolff , born March 3, 1887; † October 21, 1963, publisher
• Wilhelm Heintz , born August 29, 1888; † November 8, 1966 in Sottrum (Hildesheim), garden and landscape planner
• Walter Müller , born April 25, 1889 in Poppelsdorf; † unknown, President of the District Court
• Hermann Bleibtreu , born September 27, 1889; † July 15, 1977 in Richmond, Virginia, professor of mechanical engineering
• Willy Engel-Berger , born August 26, 1890; † August 28, 1946 in Vienna, composer, conductor and film musician
• Friedrich Sell , born January 6, 1892; † August 12, 1956, educator
• Heinrich Zerkaulen , born March 2, 1892; † February 13, 1954 in Hofgeismar, writer
• Heinrich Bechtel , born September 2, 1892; † September 10, 1962 in Diez, politician
• Matthias Rudolf Vollmar , born January 10, 1893; † January 17, 1969 in Cologne, councilor and lawyer
• Philippine Schick , born February 9, 1893; † January 13, 1970 in Munich, composer and university lecturer
• Hans Riegel (senior), born April 3, 1893 in Friesdorf (now part of Bonn); † March 31, 1945, entrepreneur
• Leo Breuer , born September 21, 1893; † March 14, 1975, painter, draftsman and sculptor
• Herbert Krupp , born March 27, 1894; † March 16, 1967 in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee, District Administrator
• Eduard Krebsbach , born August 8, 1894; † May 28, 1947 in Landsberg am Lech, doctor in the Mauthausen concentration camp
• Charles Amberg , born December 8, 1894 in Kessenich (today part of Bonn); † August 15, 1946 in Berlin, librettist, songwriter and composer
• Paul Kemp , born May 20, 1896 in Bad Godesberg (today part of Bonn); † August 13, 1953 in Bonn, actor
• Hans Schmitz , born December 10, 1896 in Godesberg; † January 8, 1986 in Zurich, politician (Member of the Bundestag)
• Käthe Augenstein , born December 20, 1899 in Kessenich; † December 29, 1981 in Bonn, photographer
• Frithjof Fischer , born July 23, 1899; † May 21, 1977 in Orth an der Donau, writer

20th century

1901-1925

• José Bohr , born September 3, 1901; † May 29, 1994 in Oslo, singer, composer, actor and director
• Hermann Josef Abs , born October 15, 1901; † February 5, 1994 in Bad Soden am Taunus, board member of Deutsche Bank
• Peter Kraemer , born October 28, 1901; † September 6, 1990 in Bonn-Beuel, politician and Lord Mayor of Bonn
• Paul Ludwig Landsberg , born December 3, 1901; † April 2, 1944 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, philosopher
• Walter Kolb , born January 22, 1902; † September 20, 1956 in Frankfurt am Main, SPD politician, Lord Mayor of Frankfurt a. M.
• Heinrich Lützeler , born January 27, 1902; † June 13, 1988 in Bonn, philosopher, art historian, literary scholar
• Friedrich von Bodelschwingh , * May 23, 1902; † June 5, 1977 in Bielefeld, theologian
• Arnold Köttgen , born September 22, 1902; † February 10, 1967 in Göttingen, legal scholar
• Hellmut Wollenweber , born March 26, 1903; † 1976, economist
• Hans Dahs , born February 4, 1904; † May 1, 1972 in Bonn, lawyer
• Franz Seinsche , born April 10, 1904; † December 12, 1987 in Essen-Heisingen, Catholic priest and author of books for young people
• Lorenz Hoffstätter , born May 29, 1904; † December 21, 1987 in Troisdorf, politician (NSDAP)
• Heinrich Eichen , born August 15, 1905; † May 30, 1986 in Odendorf near Bonn, writer
• Liesel Bach , born June 14, 1905; † January 21, 1992 in Bandol (France), aerobatic pilot
• Odo Tattenpach , * 1905 in Lannesdorf; † December 28, 1953 in Braunschweig, painter and sculptor
• Peter Janssen , born March 29, 1906; † March 18, 1979 in Berlin, painter
• André Osterritter , born April 26, 1906; † August 8, 1957 in Bad Godesberg, painter, graphic artist and caricaturist
• Heinrich Neu , born May 11, 1906 in Schwarzrheindorf; † July 20, 1976 in Bonn, art historian and university professor
• Helmar Becker-Berke , born August 4, 1906; † January 6, 1980 in Stuttgart, painter, draftsman, graphic artist and illustrator
• Nikolaus Wasser , born September 22, 1906 in Kessenich; † July 28, 1973 in Berlin, resistance fighter against National Socialism and survivor of Sachsenhausen concentration camp
• Stephan Kuttner , born March 24, 1907; † August 12, 1996 in Berkeley, German-American canon lawyer
• Adolf Heuser , born October 20, 1907, in Buschdorf (today part of Bonn); † September 5, 1988 in Bonn, boxer, European champion and IBU world champion in the middleweight division
• Alfred Gütgemann , born December 14, 1907 in Mehlem; † January 17, 1985 in Bonn, Director of the University Surgical Clinic (1954–1977)
• Helmut Horten , born January 8, 1909; † November 30, 1987 in Madonna del Piano / Switzerland, entrepreneur
• Werner Knieper , born December 24, 1909 in Beuel; † July 17, 1977 in Cologne, State Secretary and President of the Federal Association of the German Aerospace Industry
• Hermann Josef Dahmen , born February 19, 1910; † November 14, 1991 in Esslingen am Neckar, choirmaster, composer, conductor and music historian
• Theodor Schieffer , born June 11, 1910 in Godesberg; † April 9, 1992 in Bonn, historian and medievalist
• Marion Keller , born August 6, 1910; † January 28, 1998 in Baden-Baden, physicist and journalist
• Irene Sänger-Bredt b. Bredt, born April 24, 1911; † October 20, 1983 in Stuttgart, mathematician and physicist
• Ernst Friedrich Schumacher , born August 16, 1911; † September 4, 1977 on the train between Geneva and Lausanne, economist
• Hugo Wellems , born August 4, 1912 in Bonn; † March 23, 1995 in Cologne, publicist
• Randolph von Breidbach-Bürresheim , born August 10, 1912; † June 13, 1945 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, lawyer who belonged to the group of German resistance from July 20, 1944
• Eugen Ewig , born May 18, 1913; † March 1, 2006 in Bonn, historian
• Helma Cardauns , born July 8, 1913; † March 21, 2004 in Bonn, writer
• Klaus Barbie , born October 25, 1913 in Godesberg; † September 25, 1991 in Lyon, SS war criminal ("butcher of Lyon")
• Walter Horten , born November 13, 1913; † December 10, 1998 in Baden-Baden, aircraft pioneer
• Karl-Theodor Molinari , born February 7, 1915; † December 11, 1993 in Dortmund, General and founding chairman of the German Armed Forces Association
• Rudolf Petri , born May 27, 1915; † November 5, 1980 in Nouméa (New Caledonia), Buddhist monk and writer
• Reimar Horten , born March 2, 1915; † March 14, 1993 in Argentina, aircraft pioneer
• Ernst Linderoth , born February 1, 1916; † February 3, 2016, local researcher and photographer from Bonn
• Karlrobert Kreiten , born June 26, 1916 in Bad Godesberg; † September 7, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee, pianist
• Johannes Heinrich Groß , born September 13, 1916; † April 30, 2008 in Regensburg, Catholic theologian and university professor
• Walther Killy , born August 26, 1917; † December 28, 1995 in Kampen (Sylt), literary scholar
• Wolfgang Haupt , born January 24, 1921; † October 16, 2005, biologist
• Friedrich Kasch , born May 26, 1921; † March 11, 2017, mathematician
• Ewald Ernst , born June 12, 1921; † June 24, 2001 Bonn, politician (CDU), political prisoner, arrested by the Soviet secret service (NKVD)
• Hannjo Hasse , born August 31, 1921; † February 5, 1983 in Falkensee, actor
• Paul Schäfer , born December 4, 1921; † April 24, 2010 in Santiago de Chile, was the founder of the former Colonia Dignidad in Chile
• Hans Steger , born February 9, 1922 in Vilich-Rheindorf; † December 23, 1998 in Bonn, local politician
• Hans Ehrenberg , born September 13, 1922; † November 19, 2004 in Mainz, nuclear physicist
• Katharina Focke , born October 8, 1922; † July 10, 2016 in Cologne, Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health (1972–1976)
• Rudolf Nitsche , born October 28, 1922 in Lannesdorf; † April 1, 1996 in Buchenbach, physical chemist, crystallographer and university professor
• Hans Riegel (junior), born January 1, 1923; † October 15, 2013 in Bonn, entrepreneur
• Bernhard N. Cohn , born September 17, 1923; † April 7, 1992 in Bonn, German-American rabbi and author
• Walter Gotell , born March 15, 1924; † May 5, 1997 in London, actor
• Eberhard Lämmert , born September 20, 1924; † May 3, 2015 in Berlin, Germanist

1926-1950

• Richard Hey , born May 15, 1926; † September 4, 2004 in Berlin, writer and radio play author
• Paul Riegel , born September 28, 1926; † August 2, 2009 in Bonn, entrepreneur, brother of Hans Riegel junior.
• Käthe Rosalie Gollmann , born June 9, 1927, founder and honorary chairwoman of Andheri Help and co-founder of the Rosi-Gollmann-Andheri-Foundation and its chairwoman
• Hans Josef Jungheim , born June 13, 1927; † December 29, 2012, educator and writer
• Hans Schafgans , born August 18, 1927; † July 31, 2015, photographer and writer
• Hildegard Brenner , born September 9, 1927; Literary scholar
• Hermann W. von der Dunk , born October 9, 1928; † August 22, 2018 in Bilthoven, Dutch historian, cultural scientist and university professor
• Georg von Hatzfeld , born April 19, 1929 in Bad Godesberg; † August 2, 2000 in Munich, politician and publisher
• Albrecht Haupt , born December 7, 1929, church musician
• Bertram Blank , born April 9, 1930; † May 23, 1978 in Bergisch Gladbach, politician
• Wido Hempel , born April 30, 1930; † November 7, 2006 in Berlin, Romance studies
• Klaus Wildenhahn , born June 19, 1930; † August 9, 2018 in Hamburg, documentary filmmaker
• Hans Schmidt , born September 1, 1930; † February 2, 2019 in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein, musicologist
• Hans Gerd Klais , born December 2, 1930, organ builder
• Helmut Moos , born February 20, 1931; † October 11, 2017, sculptor
• Hartmut Haupt , born February 20, 1932; † May 20, 2019, organist, organ expert and non-fiction author
• Günter Tondorf , born July 8, 1934, lawyer
• Walter Eschweiler , born September 20, 1935, football referee
• Hans Dahs jun. , * November 1, 1935; † July 7, 2018, lawyer
• Alexandra Cordes , born November 16, 1935; † October 27, 1986 in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, writer
• Hartmut Schiedermair , born January 16, 1936, em. Law professor
• Stefan Frechen , born January 26, 1936; † March 21, 2019, politician (SPD) and member of the state parliament
• Hans Flohr , born February 22, 1936, neurobiologist
• Winfried Aymans , born July 2, 1936, Roman Catholic priest and canon lawyer
• Rudolf Pesch , born September 2, 1936; † January 13, 2011 near Rome, historian and theologian
• Joachim Bißmeier , born November 22, 1936, actor
• Hans Thomas , born August 14, 1937 in Beuel, jazz musician, music editor
• Rolf-Ernst Breuer , born November 3, 1937, bank manager
• Jürgen Hartmann , born July 13, 1938, administrative lawyer and politician, State Secretary in Thuringia
• Carl Jakob Bachem , born August 20, 1938, monument conservator and Beuel home historian
• Gerhard R. Koch , * 1939 in Bonn, music critic and cultural journalist
• Dieter Flimm , born April 9, 1939; † July 23, 2002 in Cologne, architect, designer, set designer, musician, university professor
• Hanspeter Heinz (born November 18, 1939), Roman Catholic pastoral theologian and university professor
• Herbert Imig , born April 26, 1939, surgeon
• Wilfried Gerhard , * 1940, Protestant theologian and social scientist
• Peter Nettekoven , born January 21, 1940, wrestler
• Monika Lamers , born January 1, 1941, writer
• Roswitha Esser , born January 18, 1941 in Bad Godesberg, canoeist
• Alfred Luhmer , born June 5, 1941, professor at the University of Magdeburg at the chair for business administration
• Evert Everts , born August 17, 1941, author
• Jo Bolling , born October 19, 1941, actor
• Wolfgang Lenz , born January 29, 1942; † July 26, 2019 in Ebernhausen (Schäftlarn), opera singer with bass and hero-baritone voices
• Dela von Boeselager , born December 17, 1942, archaeologist, art historian, author
• Ulli Weiss , * 1943; † July 5, 2014 in Wuppertal, photographer
• Herbert Löllgen , born January 5, 1943, cardiologist and sports medicine specialist
• Dietrich Stauffer , February 6, 1943; † August 6, 2019, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cologne
• Doris Distelmaier-Haas , born February 18, 1943, writer and artist
• Hubertus Günther , born May 12, 1943, art historian and university professor
• Heide Simonis , born July 4, 1943, former Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, since 2005 honorary chairwoman of UNICEF Germany
• Paul Alger , born August 13, 1943, football player
• Erich Lamberz , born August 15, 1943, classical philologist
• Franz-Josef Kemper , born April 7, 1944; † January 2, 2013 in Berlin, social geographer
• Volker Marek , born May 20, 1944, actor
• Amélie Mummendey , born June 19, 1944; † December 17, 2018, social psychologist
• Hans-Jörg Böckeler , born September 5, 1944; † March 18, 2018 in Krefeld, composer
• Klaus Achenbach , born September 22, 1945, diplomat
• Gisela Wülffing , * 1946, publicist
• Wolfgang Schmickler , born September 11, 1946, physics professor
• Manfred Cremer , born October 28, 1946, football player
• Jochen Dieckmann , born September 8, 1947 in Bad Godesberg, SPD state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia and former finance minister. D.
• Gudrun Leyendecker , born May 19, 1948, author
• Walter Convents , born November 8, 1948, saber fencer
• Manfred Faßler , * 1949, media scientist
• Klaus Simon , * 1949 in Bad Godesberg, sculptor
• Johannes Frizen , born March 28, 1949, farmer and association president
• Rolf Persch , born June 7, 1949; † March 5, 2015 in Ahrdorf, writer and reciter
• Johannes Mötsch , born July 8, 1949, archivist and historian in Meiningen
• Hans-Heinrich Grosse-Brockhoff , born October 2, 1949, cultural politician
• Klaus Ludwig , born October 5, 1949, racing car driver
• Jo Schultheis , born October 10, 1949; † March 12, 2012 in Cologne, installation artist and graphic artist
• Curt Delander , * 1950, travesty artist
• Hans Delfosse , born March 31, 1950, painter and graphic artist
• Ulrich W. Sahm , born April 21, 1950, journalist
• Christiane Erdmann , born December 1, 1950, sculptor and photographer

1951-1975

• Sylvia Lamsfuß , * 1951, author
• Johannes Geffert , born February 23, 1951, organist and church musician
• Günter Ollenschläger , born March 3, 1951 in Beuel, doctor and science journalist
• Bert Wollersheim , born March 24, 1951, brothel operator
• Hans "Hannes" Bongartz , born October 3, 1951, former professional soccer player, soccer coach
• Andrei Miron , born December 2, 1951; † January 18, 2011, prehistoric
• Rita Maiburg , born June 23, 1952; † September 9, 1977 in Greven, pilot and the first female scheduled flight captain in the world
• Benedikt Fehr , born July 5, 1952, business journalist
• Christa Goetsch , born August 28, 1952, politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
• Wolfgang Ueberhorst , born September 21, 1952, sculptor
• Michael Mertes , born March 26, 1953, political officer
• Eva-Maria Zwiebler , born May 20, 1953, badminton player and civil servant of the city of Bonn
• Michael Hillen , born June 30, 1953, poet
• Andreas Tönnesmann , born October 24, 1953; † May 23, 2014 in Munich, art historian
• Henning Greve , * 1954, sculptor
• Thomas de Maizière , born January 21, 1954, politician (CDU), Federal Minister
• Andreas von Studnitz , born February 9, 1954, theater director and theater director
• Manfred Lütz , born March 18, 1954, doctor, Catholic theologian and writer
• Heinzpeter Hempelmann , born May 7, 1954, Protestant theologian and philosopher
• Klaus Mertes , born August 18, 1954, Jesuit, director of the St. Blasien college
• Perry Schmidt-Leukel , born September 21, 1954, professor of religious studies and intercultural theology at the University of Münster
• Michael Heupel , * 1955, jazz flutist
• Michael Wiemers , * 1955, art historian
• Gabriele Uelsberg , born January 1, 1955, art historian
• Michael Winterhoff , born January 3, 1955, child and youth psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author
• Anka Zink , born February 20, 1955, cabaret artist
• Yvonne Wussow , née Viehöver, born March 15, 1955; † September 5, 2006 in Hamburg, journalist and writer
• Olaf Manthey , born April 21, 1955, former touring car racing driver
• Marion Eich-Born , born April 24, 1955, since November 2009 State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry for Building, Regional Development and Transport
• Gerd Heusch , born May 20, 1955, pathophysiologist
• Markus Winkler , born May 31, 1955, Romanist and comparativeist
• Michael Kühnen , born June 21, 1955; † April 25, 1991 in Kassel, neo-Nazi
• Roger Willemsen , born August 15, 1955; † February 8, 2016 in Wentorf near Hamburg, publicist, author, essayist and moderator
• Urs M. Fiechtner , born November 2, 1955, writer
• Thomas Juncker , born November 23, 1955, journalist
• Erwin Rüddel , born December 21, 1955, politician (CDU)
• Christian Baudissin , * 1956, filmmaker
• Wolfgang Ernst , * 1956, lawyer and university professor
• Emily Haber , * 1956, diplomat and state secretary
• Maximilian Osterritter , * 1956; † 1999, cabaret artist, author, actor, musician and painter
• Manfred Gipper , born May 3, 1956, painter and collagist
• Margarita Mathiopoulos , born May 17, 1956, entrepreneur, historian and political scientist
• Peter Ruhenstroth-Bauer , born May 30, 1956, civil servant and politician
• Claudia Solzbacher , born August 11, 1956, school teacher
• Christoph Conrad , born August 31, 1956, history professor
• Christoph Richter , * 1957, cellist and music teacher
• Rüdiger König , born April 8, 1957, diplomat
• Karl-Heinz Kamp , born June 21, 1957, President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy
• Ulrich Konrad , born August 14, 1957, musicologist and university professor
• Manfred M. Kappes , born September 23, 1957, German physical chemist
• Norman Rentrop , born October 26, 1957, publisher, author and investor
• Andreas Berg , born December 2, 1957, General in the Bundeswehr
• Gerald Hambitzer , born December 16, 1957, harpsichordist, clavichord and pianoforte player
• Dirk Bell , * 1958, guitarist, also music producer
• Stefan Fröhlich , * 1958, political scientist
• Michael Neumaier , born January 20, 1958, specialist in laboratory medicine
• Hans Günther Mattern , born March 28, 1958, diplomat
• Marcus Ingendaay , born May 24, 1958, writer and translator
• Matthias Wittekindt , born May 28, 1958, architect and writer
• Joachim Scholtyseck , born August 18, 1958, Professor of History
• Martin Stadelmaier , born September 25, 1958, head of the State Chancellery of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Bernd Gräfrath , born October 20, 1958, philosopher and chess expert
• Bernward Rothe , born December 24, 1958; † March 22, 2018, lawyer and politician (SPD)
• Sibylle Prins , born February 22, 1959; † July 14, 2019, author and special education teacher
• Oskar Prince of Prussia , born May 6, 1959, Lord Master of the Order of St. John and media manager
• Fritz Heer , born May 9, 1959, track and field athlete and Olympic participant
• Reinhard Meyer , born September 5, 1959, State Secretary and Minister
• Sven-Georg Adenauer , (born October 16, 1959), politician, grandson of Konrad Adenauer
• Jürgen Nolte , born November 19, 1959, fencer and Olympic participant
• Burkhard Even , * 1960, Vice President of the Military Counterintelligence Service
• Albrecht von Massow , * 1960, musicologist
• Bertram Jesdinsky , born March 15, 1960; † April 21, 1992 in Wuppertal, painter and sculptor
• Markus Maria Profitlich , born March 25, 1960, carpenter, comedian, actor
• Stephan Wahl , born May 28, 1960, Catholic priest, cathedral vicar of Trier
• Ulrich Herrmann , born July 2, 1960, lawyer and presiding judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• Peter Limbourg , born July 7, 1960, journalist
• Andreas Mundt , born August 13, 1960, President of the Federal Cartel Office
• Michael Kißener , born December 3, 1960, historian and university professor in Mainz
• Andreas Fischer , * 1961, filmmaker and photographer
• Michael Kloft , * 1961, journalist and television author
• Harald Uhlig , born April 26, 1961, economist
• Wolfgang Schön , born July 24, 1961, legal scholar
• Clemens Kauffmann , born August 3, 1961; † April 9, 2020, political scientist
• Manuela Söller-Winkler , born August 10, 1961, State Secretary
• Aljoscha Schwarz , born September 9, 1961, writer, psychologist, philosopher
• Isis Krüger , born October 16, 1961; † November 4, 2017, theater, film and television actress
• Petra Sophia Zimmermann , * 1962, art historian and university professor
• Nikolai Grube , born June 6, 1962, professor of ancient American studies and ethnology
• Katrin Thomas , * 1963, photographer, artist and university lecturer
• Josef Niesen , born January 8, 1963, painter, graphic artist, author and publisher
• Mathias Döpfner , born January 15, 1963, CEO of Axel Springer SE
• Markus Beisicht , born March 29, 1963, lawyer and politician ("Pro" movement)
• Andrea Milz , born April 11, 1963 in Bad Godesberg, politician
• Jan Tilman Schade , born April 11, 1963, musician
• Dorothee Nolte , born June 2, 1963, journalist and writer
• Johannes Quint , October 26, 1963, musicologist and composer
• Nikolaus Bernau , * 1964, art historian, architecture critic, journalist and non-fiction author
• Yilmaz Dziewior , * 1964, art historian and director of the Kunstverein in Hamburg
• Marion Harsdorf-Gebhardt , born February 18, 1964, lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• Joachim Helfer , born August 26, 1964, writer
• Johannes B. Kerner , born December 9, 1964, moderator; did his Abitur at the Aloisiuskolleg and studied in Bonn
• Felix Wahnschaffe , December 14, 1964, jazz musician
• Susanne Czuba-Konrad , born April 14, 1965, writer and literary scholar
• Marc Hessel , born May 10, 1965, racing driver, event manager and architect
• Anthony Baffoe , born May 25, 1965, sports presenter, retired soccer player and actor
• Andrea Stullich , born June 10, 1965, member of the state parliament
• Ashok-Alexander Sridharan , born June 15, 1965, local politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Bonn
• Birgit Lennartz , born November 22, 1965, marathon and ultramarathon runner
• Peter Stefan Herbst , born December 26, 1965, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Saarbrücker Zeitung
• Harald Bergsdorf , * 1966, political scientist
• Peter von Felbert , * 1966, photographer
• Michael Gassmann , * 1966, musicologist, journalist and dramaturge
• Hartmut Hein , born March 28, 1966, musicologist
• Markus Kurth , born April 14, 1966 in Beuel, politician (B 90 / Greens), Member of the Bundestag
• Patrick Wasserziehr , born April 19, 1966, sports journalist
• Christiane Kuhl , born April 28, 1966, physician
• Martin Simon , born June 17, 1966; † June 5, 2000, songwriter
• Uta Glaubitz , born August 13, 1966, career advisor and author
• Thomas Michael Kuhn , born September 24, 1966, journalist, technology reporter
• Sven Lange , * 1967, officer
• Sven Plöger , born May 2, 1967, meteorologist and moderator
• Frank Höndgen , born July 9, 1967, church musician, singer, choir director, conductor, author and musicologist
• Jörg Follert , * 1968, musician, composer and music producer
• Friedrich Loschelder , * 1968, judge at the Federal Fiscal Court
• Carsten Zimmermann , born February 7, 1968, author
• Sonja Zietlow , born May 13, 1968, TV presenter
• Andrea Stieldorf , born June 20, 1968, historian
• Robert Nikolic , born August 1, 1968, football player
• Beate Reich , born August 23, 1968, State Secretary
• Burkhard Garweg , born September 1, 1968, member of the Red Army parliamentary group
• Timm Koch , born November 30, 1968, writer, filmmaker and photographer
• Matthias Krupa , * 1969, journalist and editor
• Alexander Koch , born February 22, 1969, fencer
• Anne van Aaken , born April 19, 1969, legal scholar and economist
• Liz Baffoe , born July 6, 1969, actress
• Barbara König , born August 30, 1969, political scientist and state secretary
• Christian Hertweck , born October 1, 1969, chemist
• Peter Gilch , * 1970, chemist and university professor
• Susanne Kessel , * 1970, pianist
• Juliane Rebentisch * 1970, philosopher
• Stefan von Kempis , born February 9, 1970, journalist, head of the German-language editorial team of Vatican News
• Silvia Bender , born March 9, 1970, State Secretary
• Wolfgang Wick , born April 20, 1970, professor of medicine
• Ulf Hartmann , born August 14, 1970, singer-songwriter
• Gerd J. Pohl , born October 21, 1970, puppeteer and actor
• Martin Selmayr , born December 5, 1970, legal scholar, head of cabinet of the EU Commission President
• Franz Reimer , * 1971, law professor
• Gunda Werner , * 1971, Roman Catholic theologian
• Volker Kronenberg , born January 8, 1971, political scientist
• Peter Füssenich , born January 19, 1971, architect and monument conservator, master builder in Cologne
• Guido Renner , born February 18, 1971, actor
• Thomas Rüfner , born March 20, 1971, legal historian
• Tade Matthias Spranger , born May 6, 1971, law professor
• Rüdiger Wick , born October 14, 1971, judge at the Federal Fiscal Court
• Henning Wehland , born December 2, 1971, rock musician ('H-Blockx')
• Barbara van Schewick , * 1972, legal scholar
• Aljoscha Pause , born January 24, 1972, TV journalist
• Thorsten Libotte , born July 20, 1972, writer
• Tamara Countess von Nayhauß , born July 23, 1972, TV presenter
• Dominik Günther , * 1973, theater director, acting lecturer and author
• Gereon Krahforst , * 1973, organist and composer
• Christina Pernice , * 1973, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• Christoph Heckenbücker , born February 12, 1973, film director and producer
• Jens Hacke , born December 6, 1973, political scientist
• Silke Bodenbender , born January 31, 1974, actress
• Anna von Berg , born March 18, 1974, actress
• Christine Prayon , born May 22, 1974, actress and cabaret artist
• Juli Zeh , born June 30, 1974, writer
• Shirin Valentine , born September 7, 1974, presenter, journalist and musician
• Simon Böer , born October 15, 1974, actor
• Julia Stinshoff , born December 27, 1974, actress
• Michaela Teller , * 1975, judge at the Federal Fiscal Court
• Hans Thomalla , * 1975, composer
• Eric Alain Wilson , known as Nosliw, * 1975, reggae / dancehall singer
• Dirk Werle , born February 18, 1975, literary scholar
• Thomas Melle , born March 17, 1975, writer
• Sonja Baum , born July 22, 1975, actress

1976-2000

• Christoph Dieckmann , born January 7, 1976, beach volleyball player
• Markus Dieckmann , born January 7, 1976, beach volleyball player
• Lisa Gotto , born February 4, 1976, media scientist
• Jan Felix Gaertner , born March 30, 1976, classical philologist
• Kai Hirdt , born July 3, 1976, PR consultant, science fiction author, comic book writer and publisher
• Christoph Danne , born October 9, 1976, poet, editor and publisher
• Patrick Glöckner , born November 18, 1976, football player and coach
• Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka , born December 4, 1976, pianist
• Uwe Brinkmann , * 1977, mayor of Bad Schwartau
• Line Hoven , * 1977, comic book artist and illustrator
• Susanne Meyer , * 1977, actress
• Ariane Sommer , born March 9, 1977, actress and model
• Bernadette Heerwagen , born June 22, 1977, actress
• Nils Wülker , born August 17, 1977, jazz trumpeter and composer
• Alexander Hennig , born September 17, 1977, economist
• Simak Büchel , born September 19, 1977, writer and children's book author
• Melanie Amann , * 1978, lawyer and journalist
• Meinhard Schröder , * 1978, legal scholar
• Thorsten Nehrbauer , born January 12, 1978, football player
• Sebastian Stahl , born September 20, 1978, racing driver
• Bushido , born September 28, 1978, rapper
• Sonja Fuss , born November 5, 1978, soccer player
• Christian Picker , born November 20, 1978, legal scholar
• Isabelle Lehn , * 1979, writer and philologist
• Eva Müller , * 1979, journalist
• Michael Meichßner , born May 26, 1979, actor
• Jan Krämer (* 1980), business IT specialist and university professor
• Anna Malunat , * 1980, theater director
• Andreas Tölzer , born January 27, 1980, judoka
• Jens Hartwig , born April 16, 1980, actor
• Dominique Ndjeng , born November 4, 1980, football player
• Matthias Wollgast , * 1981, artist
• Thorsten Burkhardt , born May 21, 1981, football player
• Natalie Horler , born September 23, 1981, front woman of the dance project Cascada
• Mara Genschel , * 1982, poet
• Marcel Ndjeng , born May 6, 1982, football player
• Verena Hagedorn , born July 25, 1982, soccer coach
• Carola Gruber , * 1983, author
• Angela Huang , * 1983, Hanse historian
• Andreas Stichmann , * 1983, writer
• Moritz Hellfritzsch , born January 25, 1983, director
• Moritz Bürkner , born March 13, 1983, actor
• Marc Zwiebler , born March 13, 1984, badminton player
• Benjamin Barg , born September 15, 1984, football player
• Alexandros Margaritis , born September 20, 1984, Greek-German racing driver
• Dennis Sand , * 1985, author and journalist
• Johannes Strassmann , born January 3, 1985; † June 21, 2014 in Ljubljana, poker player
• Benedikt Fernandez , born January 8, 1985, football player
• Dominik Bahiense de Mello , born February 15, 1985, basketball player
• Franziska Müller-Rech , born July 26, 1985, FDP politician
• Maximilian Vollmar , born October 13, 1985, actor
• Nathanael Liminski , born September 19, 1985, State Secretary
• Ken Miyao , born March 16, 1986, pop singer
• Cédric Mimbala , born August 22, 1986, football player
• Julia Reda , born November 20, 1986, politician
• Ahmet Sağlam , born May 9, 1987, football player
• Célia Šašić , born June 27, 1988, football player
• Stefan Vajs , born July 13, 1988, ice hockey goalkeeper
• SSIO , born January 28, 1989, rapper
• Fared Saal , born February 18, 1989, Salafist
• Luke Mockridge , born March 21, 1989, comedian and author
• Fabian Thülig , born September 21, 1989, basketball player
• Johannes von Ballestrem , * 1990, jazz musician
• Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann , born February 20, 1990, basketball player
• Dominick Drexler , born May 26, 1990, football player
• Nils Teixeira , born July 10, 1990, football player
• Hamadi Al Ghaddioui , born September 22, 1990, football player
• Nils Frenzel , born February 28, 1991, author and journalist
• Levina , born May 1, 1991 as Isabella Lueen, singer and songwriter
• Bienvenue Basala-Mazana , born January 2, 1992, football player
• Florian Michael Koch , born March 26, 1992, basketball player
• Lukas Kübler , born August 30, 1992, soccer player
• Jannis Nikolaou , born July 31, 1993, football player
• Jeremy Mockridge , born September 4, 1993, actor
• Max Rendschmidt , born December 12, 1993, canoeist and Olympic champion
• Max-Henri Herrmann , born February 24, 1994, French-German handball player
• Daniel Mayr , born July 28, 1995, basketball player
• Konstanze Klosterhalfen , born February 18, 1997, track and field athlete
• Kevin Goden , born February 22, 1999, football player

Died in Bonn

The following people died in Bonn or the districts that are now part of Bonn:

Until the 19th century

• Quintus Petilius Secundus , † around 65, Roman legionnaire (* around 40 in Milan)
• Gerhard von Are , † February 23, 1169, provost of the Sankt-Cassius-Stift (* around 1100)
• Engelbert II. Von Falkenburg , † October 20, 1274, Archbishop and Elector (* around 1220)
• Sifrid von Westerburg , † April 7, 1297, Archbishop of Cologne, elector of Cologne
• Heinrich II of Virneburg , † January 5, 1332, Archbishop of Cologne, Elector of Cologne (* 1244/46)
• Eberhard von Virneburg , † around 1340 (probably in Bonn), commander of several comedians of the Teutonic Order and large area
• Friedrich III. von Saar Werden , † April 9, 1414, Archbishop of Cologne (* around 1348 in Saar Werden)
• Katharina Curtius , † 1629, pharmacist, executed as a witch
• Maximilian Heinrich of Bavaria , † June 5, 1688, Elector of Cologne (* December 8, 1621 in Munich)
• Joseph Clemens of Bavaria , † November 12, 1723, Elector of Cologne (born December 5, 1671 in Munich)
• Caspar Anton von der Heyden called Belderbusch , † January 2, 1784, Teutonic Knight and Prime Minister in Kurköln (born January 5, 1722 in Montzen)
• Count Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels , † April 15, 1784, Elector of Cologne (born May 13, 1708 in Cologne)
• Joseph Reicha , † March 5, 1795, conductor and cellist (born February 12, 1752 in Chudenice, Bohemia)
• Andrea Lucchesi , † March 21, 1801, Kapellmeister at the Elector's Court and composer (born May 23, 1741 in Motta di Livenza, Italy)
• Nikolaus Simrock , † June 12, 1832, music publisher and French horn player (born August 23, 1751 in Mainz)
• Leopold Bleibtreu , † September 11, 1839 in Pützchen Monastery near Bonn, mining entrepreneur (born March 23, 1777 in Neuwied)
• Joseph Eduard d'Alton , † May 11, 1840, anatomist, archaeologist, engraver and art critic (born August 11, 1772 in Aquileia)
• August Wilhelm von Schlegel , † May 12, 1845, philosopher, translator, linguist and poet (born September 5, 1767 in Hanover)
• Luise Adelaide Lavinia Schopenhauer , known as Adele Schopenhauer, † August 25, 1849, writer (* July 12, 1797 in Hamburg)
• Friedrich Bird , † March 19, 1851, psychiatrist and medical writer (born September 1, 1791 in Wesel)
• Franz Heinrich von Rigal , † May 13, 1852, entrepreneur (born August 17, 1785 in Krefeld)
• Johann Martin Augustin Scholz , † October 20, 1852, professor of theology (born February 8, 1794 in Kapsdorf near Breslau)
• Sulpiz Boisserée , † May 2, 1854, painting collector, art and architecture historian and sponsor of Cologne Cathedral (born August 2, 1783 in Cologne)
• Robert Schumann , † July 29, 1856 in Endenich (today part of Bonn), composer of the Romantic period (born June 8, 1810 in Zwickau)
• Friedrich August von Rummel , † December 31, 1856, Prussian infantry general (born October 17, 1772 in Geldern)
• Ernst Moritz Arndt , † January 29, 1860, scholar and national poet (born December 26, 1769 in Groß-Schoritz on Rügen)
• Christoph Heinrich Ernst Bischoff , † March 5, 1861, professor of medicine (born September 14, 1781 in Hanover)
• Peter Franz Ignaz Deiters , † March 30, 1861, law professor (born February 12, 1804 in Münster)
• August Franz Josef Karl Mayer , † November 9, 1865, physician (born November 2, 1787 in Schwäbisch Gmünd)
• Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker , † December 17, 1868, classical philologist (born November 4, 1784 in Grünberg)
• Eduard Böcking , † May 3, 1870, law professor (born May 20, 1802 in Trarbach)
• Paul Richard Thomann , † 1873, architect (born January 31, 1827 near Sprottau, Lower Silesia)
• Leopold Zuntz , † June 13, 1874, entrepreneur and co-founder of A. Zuntz sel. Wwe in Bonn (born August 24, 1813 in Frankfurt am Main)
• Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander , † February 17, 1875, astronomer, author of the "Bonn survey" (born March 22, 1799 in Memel)
• Heinrich Ondereyck , † April 9, 1876, Lord Mayor of Krefeld (born January 12, 1799 in Krefeld)
• Christian Lassen , † May 8, 1876, Indologist (born October 22, 1800 in Bergen)
• Johann Heinrich Achterfeld , † May 11, 1877, professor, cath. Theologian (born June 1, 1788 in Wesel)
• Friedrich August von Othegraven , † June 4, 1878, Prussian lieutenant general (born May 10, 1802 in Wesel)
• Gottlieb Kyllmann , † September 6, 1878, businessman, city councilor in Bonn (born May 21, 1803 in Weyer)
• Johann Joseph Bauerband , † September 18, 1878, Rector and Professor of the University of Bonn (born June 15, 1800 in Wipperfürth)
• Wilhelm Busch , † November 24, 1881, surgeon (born January 5, 1826 in Marburg)
• Hugo Ruehle , † July 11, 1888, physician (born September 12, 1824 in Liegnitz)
• Ludwig Philippson , † December 29, 1889, writer and rabbi (born December 22, 1811 in Dessau)
• Johannes Richter , † December 31, 1889, architect (born April 1, 1842 in Koblenz)
• Johann Gildemeister , † March 11, 1890, professor of oriental languages ​​(* July 20, 1812 at Hofgut Klein-Siemen, today Kröpelin)
• Gustav Elten , † June 14, 1891, royal Prussian lieutenant general (born March 19, 1803 in Treptow an der Rega)
• Otto I. zu Salm-Horstmar , † February 15, 1892, German landlord (Salm-Horstmar) and politician (born February 8, 1833 in Coesfeld)
• Hermann Schaaffhausen , † January 26, 1893, anthropologist (born July 19, 1816 in Koblenz)
• Heinrich Hertz , † January 1, 1894, physicist (born February 22, 1857 in Hamburg)
• Ludwig Wilhelm Minlos , † July 25, 1894, businessman and senator of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (born April 23, 1826 in Lübeck)
• Carl Maria Finkelnburg , † May 11, 1896 in Godesberg, medical professor (born June 17, 1832 in Marialinden)
• Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz , † July 13, 1896, chemist, discoverer of the benzene ring (born September 7, 1829 in Darmstadt)
• Alexander Stoltz , † January 6, 1897, Prussian lieutenant general (born October 19, 1810 in Cosel)
• Konstantin Ernst Thilo von Kaweczynski , † March 14, 1898, Prussian major general (born September 9, 1821 in Minden)
• Julius Baron , † June 9, 1898, legal scholar, (born January 1, 1834 in Festenberg)
• Anton Becker , † August 10, 1899, architect (born April 14, 1853 in Lüftelberg)
• Gustav von Mevissen , † August 13, 1899 in Bad Godesberg, entrepreneur and politician (born May 20, 1815 in Dülken, Rhine Province)
• Franz Heinrich Reusch , † March 3, 1900, Catholic theologian and old Catholic church historian (born December 4, 1825 in Brilon)
• Hermann von Eichendorff , † May 17, 1900, Prussian nobleman and lawyer as well as editor and genealogist (born August 30, 1815 in Berlin, Prussia)
• Carl Schorn , † December 10, 1900, lawyer and politician (born November 28, 1818 in Essen)

20th century

1901-1925

• Hermann Brassert , † March 16, 1901, Prussian lawyer and longtime Rhenish mining captain (born May 26, 1820 in Dortmund)
• Caspar Joseph Brambach , † June 20, 1902, composer (born July 14, 1833 in Oberdollendorf)
• Adolf Gurlt , † August 1, 1902, mining engineer and geologist (born July 14, 1829 in Berlin)
• Ernst Wagner , † August 2, 1902, glass manufacturer (born October 12, 1836 in Trier)
• Berta Lungstras , † July 20, 1904, women's rights activist (* December 21, 1836 in Wahlscheid)
• Wilhelm Weinreis , † August 13, 1906, architect (born November 10, 1872 in Friesdorf)
• Friedrich von Solemacher-Antweiler , † October 6, 1906, German manor owner and politician (born September 9, 1832 in Trier)
• Theodor Aufrecht , † April 3, 1907, Indologist and Sanskritist (born January 7, 1822 in Leschnitz, Upper Silesia)
• Heinrich Milz , † May 27, 1909, high school professor, philologist and rector (born February 12, 1830 in Trier)
• Theodor Saemisch , † September 29, 1909, professor of medicine (born September 30, 1833 in Luckau)
• Adolph from La Valette-St. George , † November 29, 1910, zoologist and anatomist (born November 14, 1831 at Auel Castle)
• Felix Rauter , † December 1, 1910 in Godesberg, businessman (born June 8, 1841 in Steele)
• Eduard Strasburger , † May 18, 1912, botanist (born February 1, 1844 in Warsaw)
• Gerhard Loeschcke , † July 17, 1912, Protestant theologian (* May 20, 1880 in Dorpat)
• Wilhelm Hollenberg , † October 2, 1912 in Godesberg, pastor and politician (born September 11, 1820 in Mülheim an der Ruhr)
• August von Galen , † November 20, 1912, District Administrator (born October 1, 1866 in Assen)
• Carl Binz , † January 11, 1913 in Bonn, pharmacologist and medical historian (born July 1, 1832 in Bernkastel-Kues)
• Karl Sell , † December 22, 1914, professor of theology (born November 29, 1845 in Gießen)
• Hermann von Kettler , † February 22, 1916, Prussian Lieutenant General (born September 6, 1832 in Vlotho)
• August Brandt , † January 21, 1917, German theologian (born August 22, 1866 in Vaals)
• Pauline Horson , † January 28, 1918, soprano and chamber singer (born March 25, 1858 in Beckum, North Rhine-Westphalia)
• Karl Lehmann , † April 5, 1918, legal scholar (born October 11, 1858 in Tuchel, West Prussia)
• Friedrich Soennecken , † July 2, 1919, entrepreneur (Bonn) (* September 20, 1848 in Dröschede, now the city of Iserlohn)
• Lothar von Trotha , † March 31, 1920, Prussian officer, most recently General of the Infantry (born July 3, 1848 in Magdeburg)
• Julius Bouché , † June 28, 1922, gardener, garden designer, greenhouse technician and garden inspector of the Botanical Garden (born August 8, 1846 in Berlin-Schöneberg)
• Ernst Zitelmann , † November 28, 1923, law professor (born August 7, 1852 in Stettin)
• Hermann Cardauns , † June 14, 1925, historian (born August 8, 1847 in Cologne)

1926-1950

• Paul Krüger , † May 11, 1926, legal scholar and professor of Roman law (born March 20, 1840 in Berlin)
• Ella Adaïewsky , † July 26, 1926, Russian pianist and composer (born January 29, 1846 in Saint Petersburg)
• Anton Huonder SJ, † August 23, 1926, Swiss Catholic theologian and writer (born December 25, 1858 in Chur)
• Alfred Bucherer , † April 16, 1927, physicist (born July 9, 1863 in Cologne)
• Ernst Landsberg , † September 29, 1927, lawyer and legal historian (born October 12, 1860 in Stolberg, Rhineland)
• Hans Leo , † September 30, 1927, physician and pharmacologist (born March 27, 1854 in Regenwalde, Pomerania)
• Theodor Pingen , † November 11, 1927, landowner and member of the German Reichstag (born October 11, 1841 in Widdersdorf)
• Friedrich von Bezold , † April 29, 1928, Professor of History (born December 26, 1848 in Munich)
• Karl Menser , † November 10, 1929, sculptor (born July 19, 1872 in Cologne)
• Leopold Karl Goetz , † April 2, 1931, professor of Old Catholic theology, Slavic and associate professor of philosophy (born October 7, 1868 in Karlsruhe)
• Carl Crome , † June 9, 1931, legal scholar (born July 11, 1859 in Düsseldorf)
• Hans Schreuer , † June 11, 1931, Bohemian jurist (born March 3, 1866 in Skutsch )
• Otto Renois , † April 4, 1933, model carpenter and city councilor of the KPD; first victim of National Socialism in Bonn (born August 8, 1892 in Griesel)
• Carl Hauptmann , † September 11, 1933, publisher (born February 1, 1853 in Düren)
• Heinrich Vogel , † December 20, 1934, member of the Reichstag (born June 3, 1856 in Siegen)
• Heinrich Dietzel , † May 22, 1935, socio-economist, (born January 19, 1857 in Leipzig)
• Rudolf Schultze , † June 20, 1935, city architect of Bonn (born April 30, 1854 in Berlin)
• Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke , † October 4, 1936, Romance studies and linguist (born January 30, 1861 in Dübendorf)
• Walter Reimann , † November 8, 1936 in Bad Godesberg, painter and film architect (born June 2, 1887 in Berlin)
• Alfred Wiedemann , † December 7, 1936 in Bad Godesberg, Egyptologist (born July 18, 1856 in Berlin)
• Reinhard Brauns , † January 28, 1937, mineralogist (born August 20, 1861 in Eiterfeld near Kassel)
• Heinrich Göppert , † March 22, 1937, professor (born December 21, 1867 in Breslau)
• Kurt Frankenstein , † May 16, 1937, gynecologist (born October 17, 1877 in Landeshut )
• Hans Lehner , † February 21, 1938, archaeologist (born June 3, 1865 in Sigmaringen)
• Josef Juncker , † October 18, 1938, legal and church historian (born September 9, 1889 as Josef Josefovici in Pitesti)
• Arnold Rademacher , † May 2, 1939, Catholic priest, professor at the University of Bonn, theologian and philosopher (born October 10, 1873 in Bocket near Aachen)
• Walther Poppelreuter , † June 11, 1939, psychologist and neurologist (born October 8, 1886 in Saarbrücken)
• Felix Hausdorff , † January 26, 1942, mathematician, co-founder of modern topology (born November 8, 1868 in Breslau)
• Hans Karl Rosenberg , † April 17, 1942 in Bad Godesberg, Professor at the Pedagogical Academy Bonn (born November 27, 1891 in Cologne)
• Peter Zepp , † May 4, 1943, geographer (born March 18, 1879 in Sinzig)
• Hermann Fühner , † January 11, 1944, pharmacologist, doctor and toxicologist (born April 10, 1871 in Pforzheim)
• Paul Steiner , † April 12, 1944 in Bad Godesberg, archaeologist (born August 21, 1876 in Xanten)
• Anton Paul Brüning , † December 21, 1944, bank director (born August 12, 1881 in Burgsteinfurt)
• Alexander Graf zu Dohna-Schlodien , † December 25, 1944 in Bad Godesberg, legal scholar (born June 29, 1876 in Potsdam)
• Joseph Roth , † January 22, 1945 in Friesdorf, teacher and politician, chairman of the Godesberg Center Party until 1933 and member of the Bonn-Land district council, martyr of the Catholic Church since 2000; Honorary grave in the cemetery in Friesdorf (born January 30, 1896 in Cologne)
• Karl Mosler , † May 3, 1946, President of the Court (born September 28, 1872 in Wetter (Ruhr))
• Wilhelm Marx , † August 5, 1946, former Chancellor (born January 15, 1863 in Cologne)
• Eugen Bandel , † January 14, 1948 in Bad Godesberg, bank manager (born June 1, 1879 in Speyer)
• Fritz Jungherr , † February 28, 1948 in Bad Godesberg, politician (born January 8, 1879 in Creuzburg)
• Anton Baumstark junior , † May 31, 1948, classical philologist (born August 4, 1872 in Konstanz)
• Adolf Zycha , † November 19, 1948, legal historian (born October 17, 1871 in Vienna)
• Heinrich Konen , † December 31, 1948 in Bad Godesberg, physicist and CDU politician (born September 16, 1874 in Cologne)
• Gerhard Schrader , † May 10, 1949, physician (born July 9, 1900 in Opole)

1951-1975

• August Scheidgen , † January 18, 1951, architect (born May 1, 1866 in Solingen)
• Josef Zander , † February 15, 1951 in Bad Godesberg, mayor 1915–1933 and 1945–1948, honorary citizen of Bad Godesberg, honorary grave in the castle cemetery (* March 20, 1878 in Kinzweiler, Aachen district)
• Wilhelm Hamacher , † July 29, 1951, center politician (born October 11, 1883 in Troisdorf)
• Wilhelm Knothe , † February 20, 1952, member of the Bundestag (born May 1, 1888 in Kassel)
• Alois Tichy , † December 8, 1952 in Bonn, diplomat (born July 14, 1906 in Antonienhütte)
• Karl Rauch , † February 26, 1953 in Bad Godesberg, legal scholar (born March 27, 1880 in Graz)
• Wilhelm Hölling , † July 11, 1953 in Bad Godesberg, business lawyer (born August 2, 1880 in Elberfeld)
• Otto Graf , † July 23, 1953, politician (born December 20, 1894 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein)
• Walther Bruns , † January 30, 1955, German officer and aeronaut (born June 25, 1889 in Hochstrieß, Danziger Höhe district)
• Franz Weber , † May 1, 1955, State Secretary (born January 14, 1894 in Langenhorst)
• Rudolf Lehmann , † July 26, 1955, head of the legal department at the Wehrmacht High Command (born December 11, 1890 in Posen)
• Hans-Georg von Seidel , † November 10, 1955 in Bad Godesberg, Wehrmacht General (born November 11, 1891 in Diedersdorf)
• Rüdiger von Heyking , † February 18, 1956 in Bad Godesberg, Wehrmacht General (born January 10, 1894 in Rastenburg, East Prussia)
• Ernst Wagemann , † March 20, 1956 in Bad Godesberg, national economist (born February 18, 1884 in Chañarcillo, Chile)
• Theodor Gansen , † on or shortly before May 13, 1956, German painter (born April 8, 1887 in Lebach, Saarlouis district)
• Heinrich Kolfhaus , † May 30, 1956 in Bad Godesberg, Protestant pastor (born April 27, 1879 in Krefeld)
• Walter von Steinäcker , † November 7, 1956, National Socialist lawyer (born June 18, 1883 in Cologne)
• Richard Delbrueck , † August 22, 1957, classical archaeologist (born July 14, 1875 in Jena)
• Franz Blücher , † March 26, 1959 in Bad Godesberg, Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; lived in Bonn for at least 10 years (born March 24, 1896 in Essen)
• Karl Schwarz , † April 22, 1959 in Bad Godesberg, architect (born August 11, 1886 in Zülpich)
• Walter Maximilian Lehmann , † September 22, 1959, honorary professor at the University of Bonn (born January 16, 1880 in Berlin)
• Joseph Antz , † April 18, 1960, teacher at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn (born February 19, 1880 in Waldhölzbach)
• Hans Schlange-Schöningen , † July 20, 1960 in Bad Godesberg, politician (born November 17, 1886 at Gut Schöningen in Pomerania as Hans Schlange)
• Walther Kranz , † September 18, 1960, classical philologist (born November 23, 1884 in Georgsmarienhütte)
• Werner Richter , † September 19, 1960, Germanist (born May 5, 1887 in Berlin)
• Curt Bley , † February 4, 1961, resistance fighter against National Socialism (born April 19, 1910 in Wittenberg)
• Walther Zimmermann , † July 15, 1961, art historian (born June 28, 1902 in Bad Münster am Stein)
• Paul Samel , † February 13, 1962 in Bad Godesberg, Geodät (* April 23, 1877 in Grablaugken)
• Georg Baron Manteuffel-Szoege , † June 8, 1962 in Bad Godesberg, politician (born March 7, 1889 in Montreux, Switzerland)
• Otto Lummitzsch , † December 9, 1962, founder of the Technical Relief Organization (* February 10, 1886 in Leipzig)
• Franz Oelmann , † September 15, 1963, archaeologist (born May 30, 1883 in Wolfenbüttel)
• Karl Müller , † April 18, 1964, politician (born July 29, 1884 in Süchteln)
• Bruno Huguenin , † August 30, 1964 in Bad Godesberg, lawyer (born October 7, 1880 in Antalexen, Labiau district)
• Robert Janker , † October 22, 1964, radiologist (born March 12, 1894 in Munich)
• Oskar Becker , † November 13, 1964, philosopher (born September 5, 1889 in Leipzig)
• Erwin von Beckerath , † November 23, 1964 in Bad Godesberg, economist (born July 31, 1889 in Krefeld)
• Werner Lenartz , † July 10, 1965 in Ippendorf, professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn (born April 13, 1902 in Mesenich)
• Hermann Schäfer , † May 26, 1966 in Bad Godesberg, Federal Minister (born April 6, 1892 in Remscheid)
• Josef Becker , † August 9, 1966, physician (born January 26, 1895 in Elsdorf in the Rhineland)
• Frank Utzerath (* 1967), military vice-president of the military counterintelligence service
• Johannes Stein , † March 23, 1967 in Bonn, professor of medicine (born July 26, 1896 in Orsoy)
• Herbert von Wolff , † May 26, 1967 in Bad Godesberg, Ministerialbeamter (* October 20, 1886 in Friedrichswald, Livonia)
• Karl Albert Reisch , † June 27, 1967, District Administrator (born November 23, 1926 in Boppard)
• Alfred Hartmann , † August 27, 1967 in Bad Godesberg, CEO of VEBA (born September 12, 1894 in Duisburg)
• Hans-Christoph Seebohm , † September 17, 1967, Federal Minister (born August 4, 1903 in Emanuelssegen, Upper Silesia)
• Hellmuth Greinert , † November 30, 1967, politician (born July 29, 1906 in Plauen)
• Hans Merten , † December 12, 1967 in Bad Godesberg, politician, MP and member of the European Parliament (born September 1, 1908 in Wiesbaden)
• Heinrich Hopmann , † February 1, 1968, teacher and politician, mayor of Bad Godesberg (1948–1963), honorary citizen of Bad Godesberg; Honorary grave in the castle cemetery (born January 23, 1897 in Rostock)
• Hellmut Willich , † November 15, 1968, SS-Brigadführer and Major General of the Police, (* May 2, 1895 in Schönberg, Konitz district)
• Karl Schneider , † April 2, 1969, State Secretary (born February 26, 1887 in Berlin-Schöneberg)
• Wolfgang Cartellieri , † July 6, 1969 in Bad Godesberg, State Secretary, (* October 5, 1901 in Heidelberg)
• Hellmuth von Weber , † May 10, 1970, legal scholar (born July 4, 1893 in Nossen)
• Richard Meyer , † June 23, 1970, educator and politician (born September 1, 1885 in Ragnit, East Prussia)
• Franz Hoffmann , † February 12, 1971, administrative officer (born August 24, 1889 in Posen)
• Ludwig Kattenstroth , † August 31, 1971, retired State Secretary D. (born March 13, 1906 in Kattenstroth, Wiedenbrück district)
• Hans Krüger , † November 3, 1971, retired Federal Minister D. (born July 6, 1902 in Neustettin)
• Julius Grober , † November 10, 1971, internist (born November 27, 1875 in Bremen)
• Heinrich Lübke , † April 6, 1972, second Federal President (born October 14, 1894 in Enkhausen / Sauerland)
• Theodor Blank , † May 14, 1972, former Federal Minister D. (born September 19, 1905 in Elz)
• Johann-Albrecht von Blücher , † May 14, 1972, major general a. D. (born November 11, 1892 in Potsdam)
• Leo Bauer , † September 18, 1972, politician (born December 18, 1912 in Skalat, Austria-Hungary, today Ukraine)
• Hans Bonnet , † October 27, 1972, Egyptologist (born February 22, 1887 in Hirschberg)
• Hans Globke , † February 13, 1973, head of the Federal Chancellery under Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (* September 10, 1898 in Düsseldorf)
• Walther Becker , † March 8, 1973 in Bad Godesberg, diplomat (born May 30, 1894 in Weidenau, Westphalia)
• Franz Rademacher , † March 17, 1973, Nazi diplomat (born February 20, 1906 in Neustrelitz)
• Franz Schmidt , † May 22, 1973, City Director of Bonn (born October 3, 1899 in Südlohn)
• Albert Lang , † July 23, 1973, professor of theology (born October 5, 1890 in Falkenberg, Upper Palatinate)
• Ernst Kutscher , † May 12, 1974, lawyer and diplomat (born March 15, 1909 in Greifswald)
• Julius Claussen , † May 16, 1974 in Bad Godesberg, administrative lawyer (born October 3, 1899 in Gelting)
• Vincenz Berger , † December 1974, plant breeder (born April 26, 1883 in Komotau)
• Friedrich von Zitzewitz , † January 26, 1975 in Bonn, lawyer (born February 19, 1888 at Gut Muttrin)
• Karl Wurm , † February 16, 1975 in Bonn, astronomer (* July 21, 1899 in Siegen)
• Walter Schmidt-Rimpler , † April 27, 1975, law professor (born November 25, 1885 in Marburg)

1976-2000

• Walther Mitzka , † November 8, 1976, linguist (born February 27, 1888 in Posen)
• Wilhelm Groth , † February 20, 1977, physical chemist (born January 9, 1904 in Hamburg)
• Otto Scheidgen , † March 25, 1977, architect and monument conservator (born May 10, 1893 in Bad Homburg v. D. H.)
• Ludwig Erhard , † May 5, 1977, former Federal Chancellor D. (born February 4, 1897 in Fürth)
• Hermann Wandersleb , † May 19, 1977, politician (born August 22, 1895 in Meiningen)
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Wehrstedt , † August 18, 1977, Ambassador (born June 26, 1907 in Bad Gandersheim)
• Willi Georg Steffen , † October 10, 1977, diplomat (born October 4, 1902 in Oberstein, Birkenfeld district)
• Hermann Schmidt , † January 2, 1978, geologist and paleontologist (born November 3, 1892 in Elberfeld)
• Gustav Korkhaus , † June 16, 1978, professor of dentistry (born January 4, 1895 in Cologne)
• Herbert Zachert , † November 11, 1979, Japanologist (born April 28, 1908 in Berlin)
• Carlo Schmid , † December 11, 1979, German politician and constitutional lawyer (born December 3, 1896 in Perpignan)
• Johannes Schlingensiepen , † February 6, 1980, Protestant theologian (born January 17, 1898 in Barmen)
• Wolfgang Schmid , † November 23, 1980, professor (born July 3, 1913 in Moers)
• Conrad Ahlers , † December 18, 1980, journalist (born November 8, 1922 in Hamburg)
• Ludwig von Danwitz , † February 22, 1981, journalist (born April 6, 1910 in Berlin)
• Ulrich Scheuner , † February 25, 1981, law professor (born December 24, 1903 in Düsseldorf)
• Ernst Wirmer , † August 19, 1981, Head of Department in the Federal Ministry of Defense (born January 7, 1910 in Warburg)
• Hans-Joachim von Merkatz , † February 25, 1982, former Federal Minister D. (born July 7, 1905 in Stargard, Pomerania)
• Hans Kauffmann , † March 15, 1983 in Bonn, art historian (born March 30, 1896 in Kiel)
• Robert von Förster , † October 29, 1984, diplomat (born April 29, 1913 in Clausthal-Zellerfeld)
• Albert Verbeek , † November 24, 1984, art historian (born February 20, 1909 in Cologne)
• Hubertus Prince zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg , † November 28, 1984, journalist, writer and politician (born October 14, 1906 at Schönwörth Castle near Kufstein, Tyrol)
• Hugo Wilhelm Knipping , † December 25, 1984, professor of medicine (born July 9, 1895 in Dortmund)
• Alfred Gütgemann , † January 17, 1985, professor of medicine (born December 14, 1907 in Mehlem)
• Waldemar Haberey , † April 4, 1985, engineer and archaeologist (born December 4, 1901 in Hohrodberg, Alsace)
• Alois Mertes , † June 16, 1985, diplomat and minister of state (born October 29, 1921 in Gerolstein)
• Leo Weisgerber , † August 8, 1985, linguist and Celtologist (born February 25, 1899 in Metz)
• Paul Würfler , † November 14, 1985, physician (born February 4, 1895 in Wetzlar)
• Joseph Schneider , † June 7, 1986 in Bonn, President of the Federal Social Court (born October 26, 1900 in Diedenhofen, Lorraine)
• Gerold von Braunmühl , † October 10, 1986, diplomat in the Foreign Office (born September 15, 1935 in Breslau)
• Ernst Poertgen , † November 3, 1986, football player (born January 25, 1912 in Altenessen)
• Madame Buchela , † November 8, 1986, fortune teller (born October 12, 1899 in Honzrath)
• Gerhard Schiedermair , † November 23, 1986 in Bad Godesberg, lawyer and university professor (born June 27, 1906 in Marburg)
• Walter Henkels , † June 8, 1987, journalist and author (born February 9, 1906 in Höhscheid, today Solingen-Höhscheid)
• William Borm , † September 2, 1987, FDP politician and MfS agent (born July 7, 1895 in Hamburg)
• Hans von Lehndorff , † September 4, 1987, surgeon and writer (born April 13, 1910 in Graditz near Torgau)
• Theodor Sonnemann , † September 6, 1987, State Secretary (born September 2, 1900 in Hildesheim)
• Rudolf Maerker , † November 24, 1987, journalist, politician and unofficial employee (IM) of the Stasi (born September 7, 1927)
• Hans-Henning Zencke , † February 24, 1988, business journalist (born July 4, 1925 in Berlin)
• Elsbeth Weichmann , † July 10, 1988, politician (born June 20, 1900 in Brno)
• Heinrich Krone , † August 15, 1989, former Minister D. (* December 1, 1895 in Hessisch Oldendorf)
• Werner Essen , † September 23, 1989, population scientist (born November 25, 1901 in Günthersdorf, district of Grünberg i. Schles.)
• Günther Ungeheuer , † October 13, 1989, theater and film actor (born December 15, 1925 in Cologne)
• Herbert Wehner , † January 19, 1990, politician (KPD, SPD) (born July 11, 1906 in Dresden)
• Friedrich Karl Vialon , † April 8, 1990, retired State Secretary D. (born July 10, 1905 in Frankfurt am Main)
• Ludger Westrick , † July 31, 1990, Federal Minister (born October 23, 1894 in Münster)
• Harri Meier , † November 7, 1990, Professor of Romance Studies (born January 8, 1905 in Hamburg)
• Ladis Schwartz , † 1991, Romanian-German sculptor (* 1920 in Timisoara, Romania)
• Victor-Emanuel Preusker , † May 13, 1991, Federal Minister (born February 25, 1913 in Berlin)
• Gert Bastian , † (probably) October 1, 1992, major general and politician (The Greens) (born March 26, 1923 in Munich)
• Petra Kelly , † (probably) October 1, 1992, politician, peace activist and founding member of the Green Party (born November 29, 1947 in Günzburg ad Donau)
• Axel von dem Bussche , † January 26, 1993, officer and resistance fighter July 20, 1944 (born April 24, 1919 in Braunschweig)
• Wolfgang Paul , † December 7, 1993, physicist and Nobel Prize Winner for Physics (born August 10, 1913 in Lorenzkirch, Saxony)
• Helmut Schellknecht , † October 1, 1994, Director at the German Bundestag, (born August 14, 1919 in Lahde)
• Walter Hofmann , † 1995, Professor of Geodesy (born December 15, 1912 in Wiesbaden)
• Karl Maria Hettlage , † September 3, 1995, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance (born November 28, 1902 in Essen)
• Franz Thedieck , † November 20, 1995, politician, retired State Secretary D. (born September 26, 1900 in Hagen)
• Karl-Heinz Mattern , † July 9, 1996, administrative lawyer (born December 11, 1918 in Danzig)
• Hanns Gabelmann , † September 5, 1996, Professor of Archeology (born December 26, 1936 in Stuttgart)
• Eduard Dreher , † September 13, 1996, administrative officer (born April 29, 1907 in Rockau, today part of Dresden)
• Berthold Finkelstein , † October 27, 1996, economist, (* December 23, 1925 in Krefeld)
• Heilwig von der Mehden , † 1997, author and columnist (* 1923 in Essen)
• Gerhard Konow , † May 27, 1997, Head of the Federal Chancellery (born March 16, 1929 in Stettin)
• Hermann Flohn , † June 23, 1997, meteorologist (born February 19, 1912 in Frankfurt am Main)
• Gerhard Reischl , † April 16, 1998, Parl. State Secretary a. D. (born July 17, 1918 in Munich)
• Theodor Oberländer , † May 4, 1998, politician and Federal Minister (born May 1, 1905 in Meiningen)
• Erich Mende , † May 6, 1998, lawyer and politician (born October 28, 1916 in Groß Strehlitz)
• Richard Jaeger , † May 15, 1998, Vice President of the German Bundestag (* February 16, 1913 in Schöneberg, today Berlin-Schöneberg)
• Hartmut Krüger , † July 8, 1998, legal scholar (born August 30, 1943 in Greifswald)
• Heinz Westphal , † October 30, 1998, retired Federal Minister D. (born June 4, 1924 in Berlin)
• Hans Steger , † December 23, 1998, local politician (born February 9, 1922 in Vilich-Rheindorf)
• Wolfgang Hesse , † April 17, 1999, City Director (* 1913)
• Ottfried Hennig , † October 19, 1999, Parliamentary State Secretary (born March 1, 1937 in Königsberg / East Prussia)
• Rüdiger Altmann , † February 13, 2000, publicist (born December 1, 1922 in Frankfurt am Main)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bosch , † March 20, 2000, law professor (born December 2, 1911 in Cologne)
• Hans Edgar Jahn , † April 21, 2000 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, CDU politician (born November 21, 1914 in Neustettin, Pomerania)
• Ernst Dieter Lueg , † May 22, 2000, journalist (born January 9, 1930 in Essen)
• Douglas Swan , † June 7, 2000, painter (born 1930 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA)
• Albert Pfitzer , † July 27, 2000, administrative lawyer (born August 22, 1912 in Kirchen / Ehingen)
• Brigitte Schröder , † October 27, 2000, founder of Evangelical Hospital Help (EKH) (* July 28, 1917 in Breslau)

21st century

• Heinz Starke , † January 31, 2001, Federal Minister of Finance (born February 27, 1911 in Schweidnitz / Silesia)
• Götz von Houwald , † August 16, 2001, diplomat and scientist (born May 13, 1913 in Posen)
• Rudolf Pörtner , † September 12, 2001, writer (born April 30, 1912 in Bad Oeynhausen)
• Hans Thomae , † November 16, 2001, developmental psychologist (born July 31, 1915 in Reit im Winkl)
• Gerhard Stoltenberg , † November 23, 2001, retired Federal Minister D. (born September 29, 1928 in Kiel)
• Ria Maternus , † November 24, 2001, innkeeper (born October 13, 1914 in Neuwied)
• Hannibal von Lüttichau , † January 29, 2002, officer and entrepreneur (born February 2, 1915 in Dresden)
• Werner Ernst , † August 26, 2002, retired State Secretary D. (born January 28, 1910 in Gumbinnen, East Prussia)
• Günter Müggenburg , † November 21, 2002, TV journalist (born March 3, 1926 in Essen)
• Hans Ferdinand Linsser , † November 28, 2002, diplomat (born December 11, 1918 in Dortmund)
• Kurt Georg Heinrich Andersen , † January 9, 2003, Inspector of the Federal Border Police (* October 2, 1898 in Hohenrade, Königsberg district)
• Annemarie Schimmel , † January 26, 2003, Islamic scholar (born April 7, 1922 in Erfurt)
• Johann Georg Juchem , † March 5, 2003, university professor (* July 20, 1939 in Leverkusen)
• Hans Bemmann , † April 1, 2003, Austrian writer (born April 27, 1922 in Groitzsch near Leipzig)
• Günter Poser , † June 3, 2003, naval officer (born September 23, 1916 in Berlin)
• Erich Strätling , † September 16, 2003, diplomat (born October 23, 1918 in Essen)
• Gunther Philipp , † October 2, 2003, theater and film actor (born July 8, 1918 in Topliza, Romania)
• Otto Schlecht , † December 3, 2003, retired State Secretary D. (* December 21, 1925 in Biberach an der Riss)
• Burhan Karkutli , † December 26, 2003, German-Arab artist (* 1932 in Damascus, Syria)
• Wolfgang W. Wurster , † December 29, 2003, building researcher and archaeologist (born July 7, 1937 in Aalen)
• Henning Brandis , † November 16, 2004, microbiologist (born July 17, 1916 in Elberfeld)
• Dieter Wolf , † August 22, 2005, President of the Federal Cartel Office (* December 17, 1934 in Neuwied)
• Johann Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg , † May 26, 2006, Bundeswehr General (born December 30, 1906 in Hofgeismar)
• Günther Wagenlehner , † June 25, 2006, political scientist (born November 19, 1923 in Oederan)
• Horst von Schroeter , † July 25, 2006, Vice Admiral of the German Navy (* July 25, 1919 in Bieberstein, Saxony)
• Herbert Hupka , † August 24, 2006, Member of the Bundestag and politician for expellees (born August 15, 1915 in Diyatalawa, British Ceylon)
• Ulrich de Maizière , † August 26, 2006, General of the Bundeswehr (born February 24, 1912 in Stade)
• Joachim Sochaczewski , † January 15, 2007, General of the Bundeswehr (born October 17, 1931 in Berlin)
• Martin Vogel , † April 1, 2007, musicologist (born March 23, 1923 in Frankfurt (Oder))
• Annemarie Suckow von Heydendorff , † April 21, 2007, sculptor (born March 21, 1912 in Mediasch, Transylvania)
• Albert Schnez , † April 26, 2007, General of the Bundeswehr (born August 30, 1911 in Abtsgmünd)
• Kunrat von Hammerstein-Equord , † June 13, 2007, Wehrmacht officer (born June 14, 1918 in Berlin)
• Siegfried Zoglmann , † October 20, 2007 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Member of the Bundestag (* August 17, 1913 in Neumark / district of Taus)
• Hermann Maassen , † February 25, 2008, lawyer and State Secretary (born October 12, 1915 in Cologne)
• Winfried Vahlensieck , † April 18, 2008, urologist (born April 16, 1929 in Salzkotten)
• Susanne Miller , † July 1, 2008, historian (born May 14, 1915 in Sofia)
• Isa Vermehren † July 15, 2009, initially a cabaret artist and actress, later a religious sister (born April 21, 1918 in Lübeck)
• Karin Hempel-Soos , † October 23, 2009, writer (born March 13, 1939 in Dresden)
• Hilde Purwin , † March 29, 2010, journalist (born September 16, 1919 in Obernissa near Erfurt)
• Gerhard Boeden , † May 26, 2010, President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (born February 10, 1925 in Gütersloh)
• Harald von Petrikovits , † October 29, 2010, archaeologist (born August 8, 1911 in Römerstadt)
• Reinhard Appel , † June 26, 2011, journalist, editor and director (born February 21, 1927 in Königshütte)
• Veronica Carstens , † January 25, 2012, doctor and wife of the former Federal President Carstens (born June 18, 1923 in Bielefeld)
• Alexander Graf York von Wartenburg , † January 25, 2012, diplomat (born May 13, 1927 in Berlin)
• Gisela Niemeyer , † February 7, 2012, former Federal Constitutional Judge D. (born September 25, 1923 in Danzig)
• Friedrich Hirzebruch , † May 27, 2012, mathematician (born October 17, 1927 in Hamm)
• Hans-Hilger Haunschild , † August 30, 2012, retired State Secretary D. (born January 25, 1928 in Berlin)
• Hans Koban , † May 27, 2013 in Bad Godesberg, spokesman for the board of the German Compensation Bank (born July 30, 1935 in Lauta, Saxony)
• Konrad Redeker , † June 7, 2013, lawyer (born June 21, 1923 in Mülheim an der Ruhr)
• Wilfred Geominy , † November 16, 2013, curator of the Academic Art Museum (born October 1, 1947 in Essen)
• Walter J. Schütz , † November 27, 2013, communications scientist (born July 27, 1930 in Bochum)
• Nikolaus Himmelmann , † December 19, 2013, Professor of Classical Archeology (born January 31, 1929 in Münster)
• Doris Maurer , † January 5, 2014, Germanist and author (* December 23, 1951 in Duisburg)
• Lothar Domröse , † May 19, 2014, Lieutenant General a. D. (born October 27, 1920 in Stolp, Pomerania)
• Gottfried Eisermann , † November 10, 2014, professor of sociology (born November 6, 1918 in Berlin)
• Friedhelm Rentrop , † January 26, 2015 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, auditor and member of parliament (born February 14, 1929 in Cologne-Deutz)
• Werner Lamby , † March 21, 2015, Manager (born October 1, 1924)
• Justus Müller Hofstede , † April 27, 2015, art historian (born May 8, 1929 in Berlin)
• Jörg-Dieter Gauger , † July 7, 2015, ancient historian (born November 27, 1947 in Lüdenscheid)
• Heiko Fenn , † March 17, 2016, Flotilla Admiral of the German Navy, musician, composer and choir conductor of the Bonn Shanty Choir (born July 20, 1918 in Kiel)
• Peter Propping , † April 26, 2016, professor of medicine (born December 21, 1942 in Berlin)
• Peter Brühl , † April 28, 2016, urologist and professor at the University of Bonn (born August 30, 1932 in Göttingen)
• Antonius John , † May 11, 2016, journalist (born October 6, 1922 in Ahlen)
• Manfred JM Neumann , † July 9, 2016, Economics Professor (born December 15, 1940 in Berlin-Zehlendorf)
• Karl Dietrich Bracher , † September 19, 2016, political scientist and historian (born March 13, 1922 in Stuttgart)
• Franz Fischer , † October 1, 2016, archaeologist (born January 7, 1925 in Pforzheim)
• Hans-Adolf Jacobsen , † December 12, 2016, political scientist (born November 16, 1925 in Berlin)
• Hans D. Barbier , † February 17, 2017, journalist (born April 15, 1937 in Mönchengladbach)
• Horst Ehmke , † March 12, 2017, retired Federal Minister D. (born February 4, 1927 in Danzig)
• Max Georg Huber , † March 20, 2017, physicist (born June 25, 1937 in Freiburg im Breisgau)
• Konrad Repgen , † April 2, 2017, historian (born May 5, 1923 in Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte)
• Fritz Hellwig , † July 22, 2017, politician (born August 3, 1912 in Saarbrücken)
• Christian Feit , † September 10, 2017, diplomat (born October 21, 1921 in Breslau)
• Hans Geulen , † September 24, 2017, Germanist (born March 23, 1932 in Aachen)
• Bruno Kropff , † October 17, 2017, lawyer and honorary professor at the University of Bonn (born September 7, 1925 in Münster)
• Jürgen Ruhfus , † February 25, 2018, lawyer, diplomat, State Secretary (born August 4, 1930 in Bochum)
• Gerd-Helmut Komossa , † April 26, 2018, major general a. D. (born November 11, 1924 in Allenstein)
• Fides Krause-Brewer , † August 9, 2018, journalist (born August 1, 1919 in Munich)
• Rudolf Schieffer , † September 14, 2018, historian (born January 31, 1947 in Mainz)
• Ulrich Heifer , † October 14, 2018, university professor and coroner (born October 1, 1930 in Siegen)
• Barthold C. Witte , † November 1, 2018, Ministerialbeamter (born May 19, 1928 in Kirchberg (Hunsrück))
• Günther van Norden , † November 21, 2018, church historian (born October 24, 1928 in Cologne)
• Bruno Schmidt-Bleibtreu , † December 14, 2018, Ministerialbeamter (born August 2, 1926 in Odenkirchen)
• Werner Trutwin , † February 12, 2019, philosopher, theologian, philologist and religious scholar (born March 6, 1929 in Essen)
• Hans Werner Lautenschlager , † June 29, 2019, diplomat (born January 31, 1927 in Tientsin)
• Rolf Knütel , † September 25, 2019, legal scholar (* December 23, 1939 in Hamburg)
• Günter Zehm , † November 1, 2019, journalist (born October 12, 1933 in Crimmitschau)
• Annette Kuhn , † November 27, 2019, historian, women's rights activist and peace researcher (born May 22, 1934 in Berlin)
• Jean-Marie Zoellé , † April 6, 2020, French politician and from 2011 Mayor of Saint-Louis (born November 16, 1944 in Sierentz)
• Norbert Blüm , † April 23, 2020, politician (born July 21, 1935 in Rüsselsheim am Main)

Connected with Bonn

The following people were not born in Bonn, but lived there for a long time or had a decisive influence on Bonn's history . Persons whose connection with Bonn is limited to teaching or studying at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität are listed there.

• Thegan , * before 800, † March 20, 849/852, Franconian clergyman and biographer of Ludwig the Pious, provost of the monastery of St. Cassius and Florentius
• Adelheid von Vilich , * around 960 at Geldern Castle, † around 1015/1018 in Cologne, abbess of the Vilich monastery founded by her parents in 983; since 2008 3rd Bonn city patroness
• Eberhard von Virneburg , * unknown, † around 1340, Commander of the Teutonic Order Commander in Ramersdorf
• Tilmann Bredenbach , * 1526 in Emmerich am Rhein, † May 6, 1587 in Cologne, Roman Catholic clergyman and theologian, canon and chairman of the clerical council in Bonn
• Franz Buirmann , * around 1590 in Euskirchen, from 1628 citizen of Bonn, notorious electoral Cologne witch commissioner ; responsible for many victims in witch trials
• Horst Burbulla , * 1959 in Poland, entrepreneur, inventor and Oscar winner; grew up and lives in Bonn
• Clemens August I of Bavaria , * August 17, 1700 in Brussels, † February 6, 1761 at Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, from 1723 to 1761 archbishop and elector in Kurköln ; resided in Bonn
• Heinrich-Johann von Droste zu Hülshoff , born January 23, 1735, † April 5, 1798, was 1771–1776 Komtur (German Order) of Comrade Ramersdorf in Bonn
• Gustav Friedrich Großmann , born November 30, 1746 in Berlin, † May 20, 1796 in Hanover, actor, writer and director; lived and worked in Bonn
• Christian Gottlob Neefe , born February 5, 1748 in Chemnitz, † January 26, 1798 in Dessau, composer , organist , conductor and musicologist , teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven
• Eulogius Schneider , born October 20, 1756 in Wipfeld am Main, † April 1, 1794 in Paris, Franciscan, professor in Bonn - teacher of Beethoven - and Jacobin
• Maximilian Franz of Austria , born December 8, 1756 in Vienna, † July 26, 1801 at Hetzendorf Castle near Vienna, from 1784 to 1801 archbishop and last elector of Kurköln; resided in Bonn
• Ferdinand Ernst von Waldstein , born March 24, 1762 in Vienna, † May 26, 1823 in Vienna, was a privy councilor in Bonn and a sponsor of Ludwig van Beethoven
• Anton Reicha , born February 26, 1770 in Prague, † May 28, 1836 in Paris, composer; together with Ludwig van Beethoven member of the Bonn court orchestra
• Clemens-August von Droste zu Hülshoff , * February 2, 1793 in Coesfeld, † August 13, 1832 in Wiesbaden, professor and rector at the University of Bonn , cousin of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , grave of old cemetery Bonn
• Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen , born January 29, 1797 in Cologne, † October 22, 1857 in Rome, "Rhine Countess", archaeologist, coin collector
• Carl Schurz , born March 2, 1829 in Erftstadt-Liblar, † May 14, 1906 in New York, revolutionary, lived and studied in Bonn, later an American general and statesman
• Katharina Brandis (1841–1928), painter and traveler to India
• Alexander Koenig , born February 20, 1858 in Saint Petersburg; † July 16, 1940 in Gut Blücherhof , Klocksin, Mecklenburg, zoologist and founder of today's Museum Koenig in Bonn, since 1934 honorary citizen of the city of Bonn, buried in Bonn's southern cemetery
• Paul Clemen , born October 31, 1866 in Leipzig, † July 8, 1947 in Endorf, art historian at Bonn University and first provincial curator of the Rhine Province
• Georg Clemens Perthes , born January 17, 1869 in Moers, † January 3, 1927 in Arosa, doctor; studied and worked in Bonn
• Felix Huch , born September 6, 1880 in Braunschweig, † July 6, 1952 in Tutzing, author and doctor; lived in Bad Godesberg for a few years
• Elly Ney , born September 27, 1882 in Düsseldorf, † March 31, 1968 in Tutzing, pianist; grew up in Bonn
• Heinrich Brüning , born November 26, 1885 in Münster, † March 30, 1970 in Norwich, Vermont, USA; studied philosophy and economics in Bonn from 1911 to 1914
• August Macke , born January 3, 1887 in Meschede (Westphalia), † September 26, 1914 south of Perthes-les-Hurlus (Champagne), expressionist painter, lived and worked for several years in Bonn
• Marie Kahle , born May 6, 1893 in Dahme; † 1948 in London, educator, had to flee Bonn from the Nazis because of her help for Jewish fellow citizens
• Carlo Schmid , born December 3, 1896 in Perpignan, France, † December 11, 1979 in Bad Honnef, from 1948 to 1972 member of the Parliamentary Council and the Bundestag
• Ludwig Rickert , born July 20, 1897 in Schelze near Posen, † October 4, 1963 in Wuppertal, teacher, NSDAP member and Lord Mayor of Bonn from 1933 to 1945
• Heinrich Alef , born October 31, 1897 in Impekoven, † September 29, 1966 near Unna, NSDAP member, mayor of Bad Godesberg from 1933 to 1945
• Robert Strobel , * 1898 in Brno, † 1994 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, journalist and founding chairman of the German Press Club
• Siru Pedro Olympio, born April 21, 1898 in Lome (Togo), † February 17, 1969 Togo, doctor and Togolese diplomat; studied medicine in Bonn
• Alf Bayrle , * * December 15, 1900 in Biberach an der Riss, † September 11, 1982 in Rotthalmünster, was a painter and sculptor, co-founder of the Bonn artist group Semikolon
• Alex Möller , born April 26, 1903 in Dortmund, † October 2, 1985 in Karlsruhe, Federal Minister of Finance and Member of the Bundestag
• Ernst Moritz Roth , born January 31, 1902 in Cologne, † March 12, 1945 in Dreisel, artist a. Opponent of the Nazi regime, vicar at the Elisabeth Hospital in Bonn and in Schwarzrheindorf; 1968 Exhibition in Beuel
• Heinrich von Brentano , born June 20, 1904 in Offenbach am Main, † November 14, 1964 in Darmstadt, Federal Foreign Minister
• Lauritz Lauritzen , born January 20, 1910 in Kiel, † June 5, 1980 in Bad Honnef, former Federal Minister. D.
• Gerhard Schröder (CDU) , born September 11, 1910 in Saarbrücken, † December 31, 1989 in Kampen on Sylt, Federal Minister
• Hermann Höcherl , born March 31, 1912 in Brennberg near Regensburg, † May 18, 1989 in Regensburg, Federal Minister of the Interior
• Willi Graf , born January 2, 1918 in Lübeck, † October 12, 1943 in Munich-Stadelheim, member of the White Rose resistance group
• Isa Vermehren , born April 21, 1918 in Lübeck, † July 15, 2009 in Bonn, former cabaret artist, film actress and later nun; lived in Bonn-Pützchen
• Theo Rasehorn , born October 26, 1918 in Lüdenscheid; † January 16, 2016, lawyer, judge at the Bonn Regional Court
• Fides Krause-Brewer , born August 1, 1919 in Munich, née Hofer, journalist in Bonn
• Camillo Fischer , born June 23, 1920 in Zittau / Saxony, † November 2, 2009 in Straubing, photo journalist, documenter of Bonn's time as the German capital and artistic photographer
• Georg Leber , born October 7, 1920 in Obertiefenbach, Hesse, † August 21, 2012 in Schönau am Königssee, retired Federal Minister. D.
• Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg , * May 23, 1921 at Weisendorf Castle near Höchstadt an der Aisch, † October 4, 1972 in Stadtsteinach, Member of the Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary
• Egon Bahr , born March 18, 1922 in Treffurt, † August 19, 2015 in Berlin, former Federal Minister. D.
• Erich Loest , born February 24, 1926 in Mittweida, † September 12, 2013 in Leipzig, writer; lived a few years in Bonn-Bad Godesberg
• Erhard Eppler , born December 9, 1926 in Ulm, politician, former Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation
• Günter Guillaume , born February 1, 1927 in Berlin, † April 10, 1995 in Eggersdorf as Günter Bröhl, MfS spy, whose exposure led to Willy Brandt's resignation
• Horst Ehmke , born February 4, 1927 in Danzig, † March 12, 2017 in Bonn, former Federal Minister; 1980 to 1990 member of the SPD state parliament for the constituency of Bonn
• Georg Pollich , * 1928 in Brestovac / Zagreb, architect
• Klaus Bölling , born August 29, 1928 in Potsdam, † November 1, 2014 in Berlin, government spokesman for the Federal Government
• Christel Guillaume , b. Boom, born October 6, 1927 in Berlin, † March 20, 2004 in Berlin, MfS spy
• Friedrich Voss , born February 1, 1931 in Düsseldorf, † July 27, 2012 in Düsseldorf, politician (CDU, later CSU)
• Hans Daniels , born December 11, 1934 in Düsseldorf, CDU politician; former Lord Mayor of Bonn
• Norbert Blüm , born July 21, 1935 in Rüsselsheim, CDU politician; 1982 to 1998 Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs
• Hans M. Schmidt , * 1936 in Hürth, art historian; Long-standing director of collections at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum (1982–2000)
• Gerd Hergen Lübben , born May 31, 1937 in Sillenstede (Friesland), writer; lives in Bonn
• Dierk Henning Schnitzler , born June 16, 1937 in Remscheid, lawyer, former police chief in Bonn (1994–2002); lives in Bonn
• Geert Müller-Gerbes , born September 18, 1937 in Jena, journalist and former television presenter; lives in Bonn
• Jürgen Echternach , born November 1, 1937 in Lauenburg / Pomerania, † April 4, 2006 in Hamburg, politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary
• Gerd Pützer , born March 28, 1938 in Stolberg (Rhineland), local politician (CDU)
• Klaus Wirtgen , * 1938 in Bad Nauheim; † March 28, 2010 in Bad Honnef, Spiegel journalist during the Bonn Republic
• Wolfgang Clement , born July 7, 1940 in Bochum, politician; lives in Bonn-Bad Godesberg
• Irmgard Karwatzki , born December 15, 1940 in Duisburg, † December 9, 2007 in Mönchengladbach, politician (CDU)
• Don F. Jordan , born February 13, 1941 in New York City, American journalist; lived and worked in Bonn and Bad Godesberg for a long time
• Gerhard Glogowski , born February 11, 1943 in Hanover, politician; grew up in Bonn
• Elke Heidenreich , born February 15, 1943 in Korbach, journalist and moderator; lived and graduated from high school in Bonn
• Siegfried Pater , born February 26, 1945 in Thum; † February 7, 2015 in Bonn, journalist, writer and film director
• Konrad Beikircher , born December 22, 1945 in Bruneck, South Tyrol, cabaret artist and musician; lives in Bonn
• Rainer Pause , born June 14, 1947 in Essen, cabaret artist, founder of the "Pantheon"; lives in Bonn
• Peer Steinbrück , born January 10, 1947 in Hamburg, former Federal Minister of Finance and former Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia; lives in Bonn-Bad Godesberg
• Bill Mockridge , born July 18, 1947 in Toronto, actor and cabaret artist, founder of the jumping mouse; lives in Bonn-Endenich
• Marianne Pitzen , * 1948 in Stuttgart, artist and founder of the Women's Museum
• Hans Weingartz , born February 7, 1949 in Königswinter, publisher, founder of Kid Verlag
• Bärbel Dieckmann , born March 26, 1949 in Leverkusen, former Lord Mayor of Bonn and former member of the Presidium of the SPD
• Gisbert Haefs , born January 9, 1950 in Wachtendonk, North Rhine-Westphalia, writer and translator
• Gerda Hasselfeldt , born July 7, 1950 in Straubing, politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag and former Federal Building Minister
• Lars Brandt , * 1951 in Berlin, artist and author
• Doro Pass-Weingartz , born September 17, 1951 in Gladbeck, politician of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen; from 1994 to 1999 mayor of Bonn
• Matthias Kurth , born February 19, 1952 in Heidelberg, President of the Federal Network Agency
• Karl-Heinz Schommer , 1953 in Dillingen / Saar, architect
• Manfred Stenner , born April 4, 1954 in Hemer, † July 17, 2014 in Bonn, peace activist
• Jürgen Nimptsch , born April 16, 1954 in Wesseling, Lord Mayor of Bonn since 2009
• Udo Di Fabio , * 1954 in Walsum, former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• Bernhard Kremser , * 1954 near Dresden, sculptor, designer, graphic artist and actor
• Norbert Alich , born March 13, 1955, cabaret artist ( Pantheon )
• Stephan Eisel , born June 10, 1955 in Landau, CDU politician, former member of the Bundestag in Bonn
• Michael Denhoff , born April 25, 1955 in Ahaus, composer and cellist; lives in Bonn
• Margie Kinsky , born April 21, 1958 in Rome, co-founder of the Springmaus improvisation theater ; lives in Bonn-Endenich
• Bruce Dickinson , born August 7, 1958 in Worksop, England, singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden ; lived in Bonn
• Peter Kloeppel , born October 14, 1958 in Frankfurt / Main, RTL Newsanchor; lives in Bonn
• Frank H. Asbeck , born August 11, 1959 in Hagen, manager and CEO of Solarworld AG
• Akif Pirinçci , born October 20, 1959 in Istanbul, writer; lives in Bonn
• Guido Westerwelle , * December 27, 1961 in Bad Honnef, † March 18, 2016 in Cologne-Lindenthal; FDP chairman and Federal Foreign Minister with Bonn constituency
• Bruno Kahl , born July 12, 1962 in Essen, President of the Federal Intelligence Service; grew up in Bonn
• Britta Kanacher , * 1963 in Kaiserslautern, religious scholar; founded an institute for migration research and intercultural education in Bonn
• Rüdiger Hoffmann , born March 30, 1964 in Paderborn, German cabaret artist and musician; lives in Bonn-Beuel
• Max Lunga , born March 31, 1964 in Bulawayo, former Zimbabwean national soccer player; lived in Bonn and played 188 games for the Bonner SC
• Hape Kerkeling , born December 9, 1964 in Recklinghausen, comedian, author, presenter, actor, singer and voice actor; lives in Bonn
• Dominik Dombrowski , * 1964 in Waco / Texas, writer; studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and lives in Bonn
• Walter Schmidt , born February 2, 1965 in Saarbrücken, † October 6, 2016 in Saarbrücken, freelance journalist and author; lived and worked in Bonn from 1996 to 2015
• Götz Widmann , born November 13, 1965 in Bad Brückenau, songwriter, lives in Bonn
• Stefan Raab , born October 20, 1966 in Cologne, attended the Aloisius College in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, where he graduated from high school
• Alexander Graf Lambsdorff , born November 5, 1966 in Cologne, FDP member of the Bundestag from Bonn
• Jennifer Nitsch , born December 10, 1966 in Cologne, † June 13, 2004 in Munich, actress; Student of the OKS
• Alexander Braun , * 1966 in Dortmund, art historian and visual artist
• Peter Kohlgraf , born March 21, 1967, Bishop of Mainz; studied and worked in Bonn
• Bodo Illgner , born April 7, 1967 in Koblenz, soccer player; grew up in Bonn
• Ulrich Kelber , born March 29, 1968 in Bamberg, SPD politician, Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information , former member of the Bundestag for Bonn
• Birte Schrein , born February 11, 1969 in Lübeck, theater actress; lives and works in Bonn
• Bernhard Hoëcker , born March 20, 1970 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, actor and comedian; lives in Bonn
• Sabriye Tenberken , born September 19, 1970 in Cologne; grew up in Bonn, Tibetologist and founder of the Braille Without Borders organization
• Lothar Kittstein , born October 22, 1970 in Trier, author and dramaturge; lives and works in Bonn
• Édouard Philippe , born November 28, 1970 in Rouen / France, Prime Minister of the French Republic ; did his Abitur at the French School in Bonn
• Volker Weininger , born January 22, 1971 in Waldbröl, cabaret artist, hand-made speaker and author; lives in Bonn
• Till Brönner , born May 6, 1971 in Viersen, jazz trumpeter; attended boarding school in Bonn-Bad Godesberg and graduated from high school there
• Bastian Pastewka , born April 4, 1972 in Bochum, comedian; grew up in Bonn
• Pablo Thiam , born January 3, 1974 in Conakry, football player and official; grew up in Bonn
• Katja Dörner , born February 18, 1976 in Siegen, Member of the Green Bundestag; lives in Bonn
• Britta Sabbag , born October 30, 1978 in Osnabrück, author; studied in Bonn and lives in Bonn
• Hüzeyfe Doğan , born January 1, 1981 in Karakoçan, Turkey, football player; grew up in Bonn
• Xatar , born December 24, 1981 in Kūh-e Qalā ', rapper; grew up and lives in Bonn
• Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker , born September 23, 1984 in Schleswig, football player; grew up in Bonn
• Alexander Ring , born April 9, 1991 in Helsinki, Finland, football player; grew up in Bonn
• Taşkın Çalış , born July 25, 1993 in Wetzlar, football player; grew up in Bonn
• Amer Kadrić , born October 12, 1994 in Bosnia-Herzegovina, football player; grew up in Bonn
• Frederic Ananou , born September 20, 1997 in Munich, soccer player; grew up in Bonn
• Paula Lambert , born April 26, 1974 in Munich, journalist and presenter; grew up in Bonn

Web links

• Celebrities in the Bonn City Museum

literature

• Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-416-03180-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobias Blasius: Hape Kerkeling represents CDU in federal presidential election. In: www.morgenpost.de. Retrieved January 4, 2017 .