List of Landstuhl personalities
The list of Landstuhl personalities contains important personalities related to Landstuhl , sorted according to honorary citizens, people who were born in the city or who worked in Landstuhl. The list does not claim to be complete.
Honorary citizen
- Rudolf von Perignon (1880–1959), military and sacred architect
- Hans Schlichting, awarded 1970, (Mayor from 1923–1956, Councilor 1960–1969)
- Theo Schohl , director, author and actor, awarded in 2012
sons and daughters of the town
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19th century
- Joseph Benzino (1819–1893), merchant and art collector
- Eugen Ritter von Benzino (1856–1915), Bavarian military functionary
- Jacques Gros (1858–1922), architect of historicism
- Franziskus von Bettinger (1850-1917), Cardinal of Munich-Freising
- Theodor Bumiller (1864–1912), Africa explorer
- Franz Gillmann (1865–1941), Catholic. Priest, professor of theology at the University of Würzburg
- Adolf Trieb (1874–1950), teacher
- Rudolf von Perignon (1880–1959), military and sacred architect
- Karl Pallmann (1881–1968), politician (economic party)
- Ludwig Becker (1893–1973), politician (KPD), member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Jakob Weber (1894–1957), naturalist and local researcher
- Otto Leibrecht (1895–1973), lawyer and political activist
- Karl Anton Vogt (1899–1951), author and politician
20th century
1901 to 1960
- Joseph-Hans Kühn (1911–1994), classical philologist
- Ludwig Rupertus (1911–1991), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Edmund Westrich (1927–2008), psychologist and university professor
- Theo Schohl (* 1927), director, author and actor
- Walter Knissel (1934–2018), mining professor
- Wolfgang Max Faust (1944–1993), art theorist and editor-in-chief of the art magazine "Wolkenkratzer"
- Hans Gamber (* 1944), writer, pseudonym Christopher Barr
- Roland Paul (* 1951), historian and folklorist
- Hans Schohl (* 1952), artist, kinetic art
- LeVar Burton (born 1957), American actor and director ( Star Trek )
- Petra Heid (* 1957), biologist and politician (SPD)
1961 to 2000
- Jeffery Taubenberger (* 1961), American virologist
- Tarek Dzinaj (1962–2004), writer and doctor
- Rob Awalt (born 1964), American football player
- Peter Degenhardt (* 1964), politician (CDU)
- Richard Lutz (* 1964), business economist, board member of Deutsche Bahn AG since 2017
- Thomas Schwartz (* 1964), German Catholic clergyman and author
- Thomas Schweiberer (* 1965), theater and film actor
- Ralf Leßmeister (* 1967), politician (CDU)
- Michael Baum (* 1968), literary and cultural scientist
- Frank Weber (* 1968), soccer player
- Shawn Bradley (* 1972), German-American basketball player
- David Rouzer (* 1972), American politician (Republican)
- Rob Thomas (* 1972), American rock musician
- Richard McElreath (* 1973), American evolutionary ecologist and anthropologist
- Heather De Lisle (* 1976), American radio presenter
- Frank Dressler-Lehnhof (* 1976), racing cyclist
- Melanie Vollmer (* 1979), actress
- Reggie Williams (born 1983), American football player
- Josh Wicks (born 1983), American football player
- Nadine Keßler (* 1988), soccer player
- Aaron Altherr (* 1991), baseball player
People who worked on site
- Tala Birell (1907–1958), Austrian actress, died in Landstuhl
- Martin Bucer was called to Landstuhl by Franz von Sickingen as a Reformation theologian in 1522
- Philipp Fauth (1867–1941) built his own observatory on the Landstuhler Kirchberg
- Charles A. Gabriel (1928–2003), operations officer in the 86th Squadron of Interceptors at Ramstein Air Base
- Margarete Habersack , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Jakob Kluding , mayor from 1956 to 1964
- Philipp Ludwig , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Beate Mundt , holder of the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Johann Schwebel (1490–1540), theologian and reformer, was a pastor in Landstuhl for a short time
- Hans Herbert Schweitzer (1901–1980), graphic artist in the Third Reich, died in Landstuhl
- Franz von Sickingen (1481–1523), owner of Nanstein Castle, where he died
- Kurt Silberstein , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Klaus Steinmetz (* 1959), undercover agent for the Rhineland-Palatinate Office for the Protection of the Constitution, grew up in Landstuhl
- Ludwig Thoma (1867–1921), occasionally attended high school in Landstuhl
- Nikolaus von Weis (1796–1869), Bishop of Speyer, founded a children's home in Landstuhl