List of Kuseler personalities
The list of Kuseler personalities contains important personalities related to Kusel , sorted according to people who were born in the city or who worked in Kusel. The list does not claim to be complete.
Honorary citizen
- Gustav Adolf Held (1920–2008), administrative lawyer
- Hans Keller (1920–1992), administrative officer
sons and daughters of the town
Years up to 1900
- Johann Christian von Hofenfels (1744–1787), minister, statesman and diplomat
- Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771–1849), physician and politician
- Carl Ludwig Koch (1778–1857), forester and zoologist, best known as an entomologist and arachnologist
- Karl Kaerner (1804–1869), civil engineer
- Anton Nickel (1805–1874), lawyer
- Karl Ludwig Gümbel (1842–1911), pastor and high school professor
- Julius Dick (1873–1950), natural scientist and botanist
- Ludwig Ehrenspeck (1874–1958), politician
- Ludwig Roebel (1878–1934), engineer and inventor of the Roebel bar
- Hermann Schug (1887–1945), politician, district administrator of the Speyer district
- Paul Bauer (1896–1990), National Socialist sports official, major of the mountain troops
- Hannes Fritz-München (1896–1981), painter
- Robert Hofmann (1896–1969), engineer and politician (NSDAP)
- Fritz Fickeisen (1897–1969), politician (SPD)
- Theodor Acker (1899–1986), President of the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate from 1949 to 1964
20th century
- Richard Imbt (1900–1987), politician (NSDAP)
- Fritz Benedum (1902–1965), politician (KPD)
- Otto Niebergall (1904–1977), politician (KPD)
- Hans Keller (1920–1992), administrative officer
- Fritz Wunderlich (1930–1966), singer (tenor)
- Hans-Peter Keitel (* 1947), entrepreneur
- Margit Conrad (* 1952), politician (SPD)
- Winfried Werner (* 1952), politician (SPD)
- Jochen Hartloff (* 1954), politician (SPD)
- Wolfgang Schmid (* 1957), historian
- Axel A. Weber (* 1957), Chairman of the Board of Directors of the major Swiss bank UBS and former President of the Bundesbank
- Antje Lezius (* 1960), politician (CDU)
- Xaver Jung (* 1962), politician (CDU)
- Bernd Eisenstein (* 1965), geographer and business economist
- Hans Werner Moser (* 1965), football player
- Frank Hinkelmann (* 1967), church and mission historian
- Andreas Werner (* 1967), author in the field of online marketing
- Fritz Barth (* 1968), actor
- Jens Bingert (* 1971), conductor and choir director
- Alexander Ulrich (* 1971), politician (Die Linke)
- Alfred Hagemann (* 1975), art historian and philosopher
- Meiko Reissmann (* 1977), singer of the casting band Overground
- Bastian Becker (* 1979), soccer player
- Martin Haller (* 1983), politician (SPD)
People who work or have worked on site
- Hartwig Bartz (1936–2001), German modern jazz drummer
- Ludwig Louis Benzino (1827–1895), politician, lived and died in Kusel
- Wilhelm Caroli (1895–1942), Catholic priest, victim of National Socialism, died in the Dachau concentration camp, was a chaplain in Kusel in 1925/26
- Horst Eckel (* 1932), German soccer player and member of the German national team that became soccer world champion in 1954
- Ludwig Grub (1930–2007), sculptor
- Otto Hartloff (1909–1977), art teacher, painter
- Winfried Hirschberger (* 1945), politician (SPD)
- Siegfried Jonas , recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit
- France Kermer (* 1945), French Painter, art teacher and author
- Wolfgang Kermer (* 1935), em. Professor of Art History, Rector of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
- Miroslav Klose (* 1978), German national soccer player, lived in Kusel since he was eight years old
- Paul Münch (1879–1951), Palatinate dialect poet
- Horst Schwab (1935–2017), painter, sculptor
- Michael Seyl (* 1963), painter, light artist
- Otto Walzel (1919–1991), politician (SPD, CDU), temporarily member of the city council
- Helmut Wanschap (1911–1987), painter
- Herman Wirth (1885–1981) co-founder of the Research Association of German Ahnenerbe