List of Strasbourg personalities
This list includes people born in Strasbourg and those who worked in Strasbourg but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
Personalities born in Strasbourg
In the course of its eventful history, Strasbourg changed its nationality several times. Persons who were born in the city during the periods of German rule, i.e. before 1697, 1871–1919 and 1940–1945, were or are accordingly predominantly German. Outside of these epochs, there were or are primarily French. Exceptions to this rule are explicitly stated.
By 1700
- Hugo Ripelin of Strasbourg (around 1205 - around 1270), Dominican theologian
- Johannes Tauler (around 1300 - 1361), theologian and famous preacher
- Rulman Merswin (1307–1382), merchant and spiritual writer
- Fritsche Closener (around 1315 -?), Chronicler and lexicographer
- Jakob Twinger von Königshofen (1346–1420), historian
- Job Vener (around 1370 - 1447), Catholic priest, learned lawyer and author
- Nikolaus Kempf (around 1415 - 1497), mystic and theologian
- Hieronymus Brunschwig (around 1450 - around 1512), doctor and author
- Sebastian Brant (1457 / 58–1521), lawyer
- Peter Schott the Younger (1460–1490), lawyer, theologian and humanist
- Hans Herbst (1470–1552), Swiss painter
- Symphorian Altbießer (around 1475 - around 1537), theologian and reformer
- Otmar Nachtgall (1478 / 80–1537), humanist, theologian, translator and musician
- Hans Kotter (1480–1541), composer and organist
- Gregor Schmerlin (1485–1512), humanist and university professor
- Johannes Bader (around 1487 - 1545), theologian and reformer
- Wilhelm Stetter (1487–1552), Catholic religious priest and painter
- Jakob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489–1553), Mayor of Strasbourg
- Andreas Cratander (around 1490 - around 1540), Swiss printer, publisher and bookseller
- Caspar Schaller (around 1490 - 1542), town clerk, theological publicist and follower of Ulrich Zwingli
- Beatus Murner (1492–?), Printer
- Michael Blum (1494-1550), printer
- Gervasius Schuler (around 1495 - 1563), Swiss Protestant theologian and reformer
- Katharina Zell (1497–1562), theological author and reformer
- Christoph Weiditz (1498–1560), painter, medalist, picture carver and goldsmith
- Friedrich Hagenauer (around 1499 - 1546), medalist and picture carver
- Wilhelm Ludwig Böcklin von Böcklinsau (around 1500 - 1585), court marshal and provost of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg
- Hans Weiditz (around 1500 - 1536), graphic artist for woodcuts
- Jakob Micyllus (1503–1558), humanist, poet and educator
- Christoph Lasius (1504–1572), Protestant theologian
- Jacob Frey (before 1520-1562), playwright and poet of the Alemannic dialect
- Martin Schalling the Younger (1532–1608), Protestant theologian, hymn poet and reformer
- Daniel Specklin (1536–1589), fortress builder, engineer and cartographer
- Johannes Piscator (1546–1625), Reformed theologian
- Philipp Marbach (1550–1611), Lutheran theologian and university professor
- Johann Jacob Hermannus (around 1553 - 1630), reformed clergyman
- Georg Michael Lingelsheim (1556–1636), civil servant and scholar from the Electoral Palatinate
- Johann Theodor de Bry (1561–1623), publisher, engraver, draftsman and gunsmith
- Michel Hospein (1565–1618), humanist, poet and cartographer
- Johann Michael Beuther (1566–1618), legal scholar
- Georg Ridinger (1568–1617), architect and builder
- Jakob Ludwig Beuther (1573–1623), administrative officer and historian
- Friedrich Brentel (1580–1651), miniature painter, draftsman and engraver
- Georg Obrecht (1584–1612), camera operator and professor
- Johannes Lippius (1585–1612), Protestant theologian, philosopher and music theorist
- Sebastian Dadler (1586–1657), goldsmith and medalist
- Oseas Schadaeus (1586–1626), Lutheran clergyman and chronicler
- Johann Georg Dorsche (1597–1659), Lutheran theologian
- Sebastian Stoskopff (1597–1657), painter
- Hans Friedrich Brentel (1602–1636), miniature painter and draftsman
- Johann Wilhelm Baur (1607–1640), etcher, miniature painter and engraver of the Baroque era
- Anna Maria Brentel (1613–1633), miniature painter and etcher
- Balthasar Scheidt (1614–1670), Hebrew and university professor
- Dominikus Dietrich (1620–1692), lawyer
- Johannes Scheffer (1621–1679), German-Swedish humanist and scholar
- Markus Mappus (1632–1701), doctor and university professor and canon at St. Thomas
- Marie Luise von Degenfeld (1634–1677), wife of Elector Karl I Ludwig von der Pfalz
- Anna Magdalena von Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1640–1693), daughter of Christian I von Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler
- Johan Friedrich Mieg (1642–1691), Reformed theologian and university professor
- Johann Joachim Zentgraf (1643–1707), doctor and professor
- Johann Balthasar Moscherosch (1647–1703), Romance scholar and librarian
- Johann Jacob Henrici (1656 – after 1686), physician, city doctor and member of the Leopoldina Academic Academy
- Johann Adam Seupel (1662–1717), citizen, painter and engraver
- Johann Friedrich Ruopp (1672–1708), hymn poet and pastor
- Christian III (1674–1735), Count Palatine von Birkenfeld, Bischweiler and Rappoltstein
- Johann Georg Scherz (1678–1754), Germanist and legal scholar
- Johannes Schübler (1686–1757), Mayor of Heilbronn
- Friedrich Ludwig (1688–1750), Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
- Johann Christoph Bartenstein (1689–1767), statesman and diplomat
18th century
1701 to 1750
- Claude Francin (1702–1773), sculptor
- Johann Andreas Silbermann (1712–1783), organ builder
- Elias Stöber (1719–1778), Protestant theologian
- Karoline von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1721–1774), Countess of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Jacob Reinbold Spielmann (1722–1783), pharmacist, physician and chemist
- Johann Gottfried Zentgrav (1722–1762), German rhetorician, philologist and Protestant theologian
- Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (1724–1797), Austrian field marshal
- Johann Georg Roederer (1726–1763), German physician
- Jean-Marie Cuchot d'Herbain (1727–1801), auxiliary bishop in Trier
- Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729–1803), classical philologist
- Jean-Joseph Rodolphe (1730–1812), horn player, violinist, composer and music teacher
- François-Christophe Kellermann (1735–1820), general, peer and marshal of France
- Jeremias Jakob Oberlin (1735–1806), scholar, philologist, Germanist
- Christoph Wilhelm von Koch (1737–1813), university professor, writer, librarian, diplomat and politician
- Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (1737–1820), poet
- Philippe Rühl (1737–1795), deputy
- Johann Daniel Metzger (1739–1805), German physician
- Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Younger (1740–1812), British-French painter, etcher and aquatint engraver
- Johann Friedrich Oberlin (1740–1826), Protestant pastor and social pioneer
- Johann Christian von Mannlich (1741–1822), German painter and architect
- Jean Benoît Schérer (1741–1824), lawyer, historian, topographer, diplomat and Freemason
- Jacques Maurice Hatry (1742–1802), general and senator
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner (1747–1779), German writer
- Friedrich von Dietrich (1748–1793), natural scientist
- Franz Alexander Espiard von Colonge (1748–1814), Bavarian major general
- Matthias Klotz (1748–1821), German stage painter and lithographer
- Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (1749–1794), harpsichordist and composer
- Johann Christian Ehrmann (1749–1827), German physician and author
1751 to 1800
- Isaak Haffner (1751–1831), theologian and university professor
- Sébastien Érard (1752–1831), instrument maker
- Bernhard Friedrich von Türckheim (1752–1831), banker and politician
- Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753–1800), General
- Franz Heinrich Ziegenhagen (1753–1806), German businessman and social utopian
- Nicolas-Joseph Hüllmandel (1756–1823), pianist, glass harmonica player and composer
- Anton Will (1752–1821), German physician
- Charlotte Ackermann (1757–1775), German actress
- Christophe Guérin (1758–1831), French painter and etcher
- François Andrieux (1759–1833), scholar, poet and lawyer
- Jacques Widerkehr (1759–1823), cellist
- Joseph Ludwig Colmar (1760–1818), Bishop of Mainz
- Christian Kramp (1760–1826), doctor, mathematician and physicist
- Marie Tussaud (1761–1850), wax artist and founder of Madame Tussauds
- Jean-Baptiste Olivier (1765–1813), general of the cavalry
- Louise Humann (1766–1836), Catholic citizen of Strasbourg
- Johann Protasius von Anstett (1766–1835), Russian diplomat
- Johann Daniel Osterrieth (1768–1839), classicist architect
- Johann Jakob Humann (1771–1834), Vicar General of the Diocese of Mainz
- Benjamin Zix (1772–1811), German-French painter
- Jean-Pierre Aumer (1774 / 76–1833), dancer and choreographer
- Louis-François Lejeune (1775–1848), painter and general
- Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (1776–1856), watchmaker
- Christian Gottfried Nestler (1778-1832), professor
- Johann von Türckheim (1778–1847), Baden civil servant and politician
- Johann Friedrich von Türckheim (1780–1850), Mayor of Strasbourg
- Johann Georg Daniel Arnold (1780–1829), German lawyer and writer
- Jean-Georges Humann (1780–1842), statesman
- Gustave Vogt (1781–1870), oboist, music teacher and composer
- Ludwig I (1786–1868), German prince
- Auguste of Bavaria (1788–1851), Viceroy of Italy, Duchess of Leuchtenberg and Princess of Eichstätt
- Andreas Jung (1793–1863), Protestant church historian and librarian
- Georg Wilhelm von Wedekind (1796-1856), German forester
- Franz Härter (1797–1874), pastor
- Ludwig Adolf Spach (1800–1879), historian, translator, journalist and novelist
19th century
1801 to 1850
- Édouard Spach (1801–1879), botanist
- Théodore Ratisbonne (1802-1884), Catholic priest
- Louis Kramp (1804–1871), German-French lithographer, calligrapher and entrepreneur
- Eduard Reuss (1804-1891), Protestant theologian
- August Stöber (1808–1884), writer
- Louis Roederer (1809–1870), wine merchant
- Jean-Georges Kastner (1810–1867), composer and music writer
- Gustave Klotz (1810–1880), architect
- Adolphe Stoeber (1810-1892), Protestant clergyman and writer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bergmann (1812–1887), philologist
- Ferdinand Braun (1812–1854), writer and librettist
- August Eduard Cunitz (1812–1886), Protestant theologian
- Edmond Fleischhauer (1812–1896), entrepreneur, local politician, patron and collector
- Charles Schmidt (1812–1895), theologian, historian and religious scholar
- Alphonse Ratisbonne (1814-1884), co-founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Sion
- Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil (1814–1885), painter
- Émile Boeswillwald (1815–1896), architect and preservationist
- Gustav Adolf Bergmann (1816–1891), German businessman and member of the German Reichstag
- Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816-1856), chemist
- Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884), doctor and chemist
- Jean-Baptiste Verchère de Reffye (1821–1880), gun designer
- Gustav Hummel (1824–1910), businessman and politician from Baden
- Oscar Berger-Levrault (1826–1903), philatelist
- Charles Netter (1826-1882), Chowew Zion
- Frederick Augustus Klein (1827–1903), missionary of the Anglican Church Mission Society
- Ernest Lauth (1827–1902), German banker, mayor of Strasbourg and member of the German Reichstag
- Paul Pradier-Fodéré (1827–1904), lawyer and publicist
- Louis Ratisbonne (1827–1900), writer and translator
- Alexis von Schauenburg (1828–1894), landowner and member of the German Reichstag
- Paul Schützenberger (1829–1897), chemist
- Gustave Jundt (1830–1884), landscape and genre painter, caricaturist, engraver and illustrator
- Charles Friedel (1832–1899), chemist
- Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger (1832–1899), theologian
- François Emile Ehrmann (1833–1910), painter and glass painter
- Carl August Schneegans (1835–1898), liberal journalist and politician
- Mélanie Renouard de Bussière (1836–1914), Queen of Paris
- Émile Waldteufel (1837–1915), musician and composer
- Daniel Auguste Rosenstiehl (1839–1916), chemist
- Chrétien Waydelich (1841–19 ??), croquet player and Olympic champion
- Édouard Schuré (1841–1929), writer and theosophist
- Edward Dannreuther (1844–1905), English pianist and music teacher
- Charles Léon Ungemach (1844–1928), industrialist and member of the state parliament
- Alfred Maurice Picard (1844–1913), engineer and politician
- Nicolaus Delsor (1847–1927), Catholic clergyman, senator and member of the German Reichstag
- Carl Fürstner (1848–1906), German neurologist and psychiatrist
- Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), Romanist and Hispanicist
1851 to 1875
- Paul Friesé (1851–1917), architect
- Hugo Zorn von Bulach (1851–1921), German politician and member of the Reichstag
- Frédéric Kastner (1852–1882), physicist and inventor
- Marie-Georges Picquart (1854–1914), officer, minister of war and involved in the Dreyfus affair
- Paul Appell (1855–1930), mathematician
- Louis-Gustave Binger (1856–1936), officer and Africa explorer
- Alfred Mühleisen (1856–1931), journalist, brewer and member of the German Reichstag
- Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856–1901), German botanist and university professor
- Léon Wieger (1856–1933), theologian, physician, sinologist and author
- Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916), researcher, officer, priest, monk and hermit
- Franz Zorn von Bulach (1858–1925), clergyman
- Charles Diehl (1859–1944), historian
- Gustave Krafft (1861–1927), architect and painter
- Heinrich Schneegans (1863–1914), Romanist and writer
- Hugo Becker (1863–1941), German cellist, cello teacher and composer
- Maximilian Schwalb (1864–1943), German Reich judge and ministerial official
- Charles Andler (1866–1933), Germanist and professor
- August Scharrer (1866–1936), German conductor and composer
- Eugen Wilhelm (1866–1951), German-French lawyer, judge, lawyer and author
- Joseph Maria Benedikt Clauß (1868–1949), Catholic priest, theologian and archivist
- Jacques Peirotes (1869–1935), editor, politician, mayor and member of the German Reichstag
- Minna Wettstein-Adelt (1869–?), Writer, editor and women's rights activist
- André Lichtenberger (1870–1940), novelist and sociologist
- Helmar Lerski (1871–1956), Swiss photographer, cameraman and film director
- Theodor Michelis (1872–1936), officer
- Alfred Saltzgeber (1872–1936), Catholic theologian and parliamentarian
- Auguste Cammissar (1873–1962), painter
- Alexander Dominicus (1873–1945), lawyer, administrative officer and politician
- Johanna Hipp (1873–1953), graphic artist and painter
- Karl von Lewinski (1873–1951), lawyer and diplomat
- Eduard Mosler (1873–1939), banker
- Heinrich Emil Timerding (1873–1945), mathematician
- Heinrich Liebmann (1874–1939), mathematician
- Max Looff (1874–1954), naval officer
- Hermann Hoffmann-Fölkersamb (1875–1955), lawyer, interpreter and diplomat
- Otto Michaelis (1875–1949), Protestant theologian
- Hans Ritter von Baeyer (1875–1941), orthopedist
- Karl Wendling (1875–1962), violinist and music teacher
1876 to 1900
- Erwin Hintze (1876–1931), art historian
- Friedrich Holtzmann (1876–1948), doctor and hygienist
- Paul Jordan (1876–1966), architect and urban planner
- Bruno Meyermann (1876–1963), astronomer
- Rudolf Schröder (1876–?), Forester and member of the German Reichstag
- Hugo von Waldeyer-Hartz (1876–1942), naval officer and writer
- Ivo Schricker (1877–1962), football player and official
- Robert Bing (1878–1956), German-Swiss neurologist
- Paul Bürck (1878–1947), painter, graphic artist and textile designer
- Otto Leiber (1878–1958), painter, graphic artist and sculptor
- Heinrich Oster (1878–1954), chemist and convicted war criminal
- Julius Petersen (1878–1941), literary scholar
- Heinrich Ehehalt (1879–1938), sculptor, medalist and graphic artist
- Karl Klingler (1879–1971), violin virtuoso, concertmaster, composer, music teacher and university professor
- Bruno Schumacher (1879–1957), high school teacher and historian
- Johannes von den Driesch (1880–1967), ministerial official and professor
- Wilhelm Gundel (1880–1945), classical philologist
- Émile Mathis (1880–1956), automobile manufacturer
- Elly Heuss-Knapp (1881–1952), internist, pediatrician and diabetologist
- Richard Laqueur (1881–1959), ancient historian and classical philologist
- Karl Stolte (1881–1951), internist, pediatrician and diabetologist
- Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), educator
- Louise Bresslau-Hoff (1882–1966), writer and poet
- Ernst Damzog (1882–1945), police officer and SS brigade leader
- Hugo Jacobi (1882–1954), poet
- Robert Redslob (1882–1962), Franco-German constitutional and international lawyer
- Georges Weill (1882–1970), French editor and politician, member of the German Reichstag (SPD) and the French National Assembly
- Heinrich Doehle (1883–1963), civil servant
- Siegfried Hilpert (1883–1951), German chemist
- Gertrud Kraut (1883–1980), ceramicist
- Oskar Wackerzapp (1883–1965), politician (CDU)
- Kurt Blaum (1884–1970), politician (CDU)
- Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff (1884–1952), ambassador
- Otto Froitzheim (1884–1962), tennis player and administrative lawyer
- Wilhelm Wagner (1884–1970), geologist
- Karl Friederich (1885–1944), master builder in Ulm
- Paul Gröber , also Pablo Groeber (1885–1964), German-Argentinian geologist and university professor
- Eduard von Jan (1885–1971), Romanist and Provençalist
- Alfons Scherer (1885–1964), administrative lawyer and writer
- Hans Arp (1886–1966), German-French painter, sculptor and poet
- René Beeh (1886–1922), German painter and graphic artist
- Robert Heger (1886–1978), conductor, composer and university professor
- Charles Gottweiss (1887–1976), artist and sculptor
- Friedrich List (1887–1965), lawyer and librarian
- Fritz Scheuermann (1887–?), Lawyer
- Hans von Benda (1888–1972), conductor, music editor and officer
- Charles Frey (1888–1955), journalist and politician, mayor of Strasbourg
- Lucien Adrion (1889–1953), French painter
- Paul Fallot (1889–1960) French geologist and paleontologist
- Manu Leumann (1889–1977), Indo-Europeanist
- Werner Mollweide (1889–1978), painter
- Paul Welsch (1889–1954), French visual artist
- Paul Wernert (1889–1972), German-French paleontologist, ethnologist and archaeologist
- Walter Krüger (1890–1945), General of the Waffen SS
- Otto Mayer (1890–1971), German ministerial official
- Franz Albrecht Medicus (1890–1967), lawyer
- Arno von Moyzischewitz (1890–1937), officer and entrepreneur
- Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967), painter
- Rudolf Cammisar (1891–1983), painter, graphic artist and draftsman
- Hanns Grewenig (1891–1961), engineer and manager in the automotive industry
- Jules Kruger (1891-1959), cameraman
- Emil Martin (1891–1967), politician (SPD)
- Friedrich Muck-Lamberty (1891–1984), craftsman
- Charles Münch (1891–1968), French conductor
- Karl Ott (1891–1977), administrative officer
- Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt (1892–1964), German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
- Albert Herrmann (1892–1977), Baden administrative lawyer and local politician (NSDAP)
- Robert Nussbaum (1892–1941), doctor and benefactor
- Eduard Reinacher (1892–1968), poet, radio play author, narrator and playwright
- Friedrich Stolberg (1892–1975), architect, castle and cave researcher
- Herbert von Bose (1893–1934), senior councilor and political advisor
- Kurt Hutton (1893–1960), British photographer (born as Kurt Hübschmann)
- Wolfgang Hoffmann (1893–1956), lawyer and politician (CDU)
- Friedrich Smend (1893–1980), theologian, librarian and Bach researcher
- José Antonio Benton (1894–1986), lawyer and writer
- Emil Forrer (1894–1986), Swiss Assyriologist, antiquarian and Hittite scientist
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894–1945), politician (NSDAP) and SS leader
- Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (1895–1945), naval officer, most recently Admiral General in World War II
- Ernst von Hippel (1895–1984), lawyer and legal philosopher
- Smilo von Lüttwitz (1895–1975), officer
- Rudolph Minkowski (1895–1976), German-American astrophysicist
- Horst Rechenbach (1895–1968), officer, most recently SS-Oberführer, National Socialist politician, researcher and writer
- Friedrich von Broich (1896–1974), officer
- Paula Jordan (1896–1986), book illustrator, author and painter
- Willi Worch (1896–1972), Nazi functionary
- Paul Alverdes (1897–1979), writer
- Hans Ficker (1897–1968), lawyer
- Maria Gress (1897–1945), educator, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Siegfried Landshut (1897–1968), political scientist and sociologist
- Hans Mayer-Wegelin (1897–1983), forest scientist and university professor
- Erich Reitzenstein (1897–1976), classical philologist
- Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961), architect
- Hermann Mayer-Falkow (1898–1963), actor, theater director and operetta singer
- Georg Graf von Rittberg (1898–1973), German lieutenant general in World War II
- René Keller (1900–2003), Swiss lawyer and senior auditor in military justice
- Victor Nessmann (1900–1944), doctor, resistance fighter and victim of National Socialism
- Erich Welter (1900–1982), publicist and economist
20th century
1901 to 1920
- Burkhard Kommerell (1901–1990), internal medicine doctor and radiologist
- Hans Reiter (1901–1973), politician (NSDAP)
- Paulus von Stolzmann (1901–1989), diplomat
- Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1901–1988), musicologist, music critic and composer
- Jürgen Wagner (1901–1947), SS leader
- Hermann Busch (1902–?), German general
- Oscar Cullmann (1902–1999), Protestant exegete and theologian
- Robert H. Park (1902–1994), American electrical engineer
- Alfred Pönisch (1902 - after 1944), German administrative lawyer and district administrator
- Heinz Renkewitz (1902–1974), Protestant theologian
- Jochen Joachim Bartsch (1903–1965), actor, director, dramaturge and screenwriter
- Amely Goebel (1903–1982), German politician, economist and social worker
- Kurt Heuser (1903–1975), writer and screenwriter
- Oskar Oesterle (1903–1964), civil servant and mine director
- Franz Büchler (1904–1990), writer and visual artist
- Philippe Dollinger (1904–1999), French historian
- Albert Freyermuth (1904–1971), football player
- Friedrich Kolander (1904–1979), actor and director
- Hermann Niebuhr (1904–1968), teacher and basketball player
- Werner Schäfer (1904–1973), concentration camp commandant
- Karl Walker (1904–1975), social scientist and politician (SPD)
- Charles Ehresmann (1905–1979), French mathematician
- Ernst Hasselbach (1905–?), Actor, screenwriter and film producer
- Bruno Müller (1905–1960), lawyer, SS-Obersturmbannführer and senior councilor
- Karl Steuerwald (1905–1989), linguist
- Ernst Anrich (1906–2001), historian and National Socialist
- Hans Bethe (1906–2005), German-American physicist
- Alfred Will (1906–1982), graphic artist and art professor
- Erich Valentin (1906–1993), musicologist
- Lotte Brill (1907 - after 1936), costume and set designer
- Walter Grube (1907–1992), archivist and regional historian
- Georg Renno (1907–1997), Nazi mass murderer
- Rudi Goguel (1908–1976), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Jean Oser (1908–2002), German-American film editor
- Gerolf Steiner (1908–2009), professor of zoology
- Waldemar Krause (1908–1992), SS officer and presumed mass murderer
- Egbert von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (1909–2000), party politicians and military scientists of the GDR
- Erwin Reuben Jacobi (1909–1978), French-Swiss harpsichordist, organist and musicologist
- Hans-Otto Meissner (1909–1992), diplomat and writer
- Max Bense (1910–1990), philosopher, writer and publicist
- Walther Hellige (1910–1984), politician (FDP, CDU)
- Hermann Hildebrandt (1910–1982), conductor
- Helmut von Jan (1910–1991), historian and archivist
- Georges Loinger (1910–2018), French member of the Resistance
- Heinz Cramer (1911–2003), staff officer and modern pentathlon
- Wolfgang Brobeil (1911–1981), journalist, editor and director
- Erwin Feller (1911–1991), politician ( all-German bloc / Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised )
- Jean-Pierre Lévy (1911–1996), member of the Resistance
- Walter Schmitt (1911–2005), physician
- Paul G. Hahnemann (1912–1997), entrepreneur
- Franz Hitzel (1912–1994), German architect and government building director
- Alexander Borell (1913-1998), author
- Frédéric Fritz Keller (1913–1985), football player
- Georg Picht (1913–1982), philosopher, theologian and educator
- Ilse Totzke (1913–1987), musician and Righteous Among the Nations
- Charles Fehrenbach (1914–2008), French astronomer
- Jacques Feldbau (1914–1945), French mathematician
- Ludwig Lenel (1914–2002), organist and composer
- Hans Puls (1914–1992), musicologist, philosophy and language teacher and hymn composer
- Herbert Schneider (1915–1995), politician (DP)
- Heinrich Rindfleisch (1916–1969), doctor and SS officer
- Hans Samelson (1916–2005), American mathematician
- Georg Schug (1917–2007), electrical engineer
- Albert Greiner (1918–2013), theologian, pastor and Luther researcher
- Curt Keller (1918–1992), football player
- Klaus Samelson (1918–1980), mathematician, physicist and computer science pioneer
- Otto Hermann Grevesmühl (1919–1981), German musician, concert master, conductor and concert organizer
- Reno Nonsens (1919–2001), German actor and cabaret artist
- Rhena Schweitzer-Miller (1919–2009), daughter of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer
- Antoinette Becker (1920–1998), French-German author of books for children and young people
1921 to 1940
- André Appel (1921–2007), Lutheran theologian, General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation
- Jean-Louis Koszul (1921–2018), French mathematician
- Jacques Martin (1921-2010), cartoonist
- André Bord (1922–2013), Resistance fighter and Gaullist politician
- Raymond Matzen (1922–2014), poet and university professor
- Jean Bollack (1923–2012), philologist and philosopher
- Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), pantomime
- Germain Muller (1923–1994), cabaret artist, poet and playwright
- Marcel Rudloff (1923–1996), lawyer and Christian Democratic politician
- Serge Leclaire (1924–1994), author and Lacanian psychoanalyst
- Noah Klieger (1925–2018), Israeli sports journalist, survivor and contemporary witness of the Holocaust
- Jean-Pierre Munch (1926–1996), racing cyclist
- Francis Rapp (1926-2020), Medievalist
- Prosper Weil (1926–2018), lawyer
- René Hauss (1927–2010), soccer player and coach
- Hans Medernach (1928–2007), German newspaper publisher and publicist
- François Remetter (* 1928), football player
- Silvan S. Schweber (1928–2017), American theoretical physicist and historian of science
- Claude Starck (* 1928), Swiss cellist
- Claude Rich (1929–2017), actor
- Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019), graphic artist, writer and illustrator
- Lucien Prosper Ernest Fischer (* 1933), emeritus Vicar Apostolic of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
- Solange Fernex (1934–2006), politician ( Les Verts ), pacifist and environmentalist
- Frédéric Schlick (1935–2006), jazz musician
- Guy Reibel (* 1936), composer, music teacher and choir director
- René Egles (* 1939), songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist
1941 to 1960
- Gilbert Gress (* 1941), French-Swiss football player and coach
- Hughes Kirschoffer (* 1941), former French racing driver
- Robert Wurtz (* 1941), French football referee
- Wolfgang Huber (* 1942), Protestant theologian
- Hanne F. Juritz (* 1942), writer and artist
- Jean-Michel Spieser (* 1942), archaeologist
- Matthias Werner (* 1942), historian
- Wolf-Dieter Dressler (* 1943), judge
- Ulrich Frank (1943–2017), actor and voice actor
- Rolf W. Günther (* 1943), doctor
- Michael Haensel (1943–2017), director
- Rolf Kaiser (* 1943), economist and diplomat
- Thomas Lauck (* 1943), musician
- Georg Simonis (* 1943), political scientist
- Mark Wirtz (1943–2020), music producer, composer, arranger, musician, entertainer, stand-up comedian, author and painter
- Bob Wollek (1943–2001), French racing car driver
- Norbert Brieskorn (* 1944), Jesuit priest and professor of legal philosophy
- Gérard Krimmel (* 1944), painter
- Thomas Schulte-Michels (* 1944), theater and opera director
- Jürgen Theobaldy (* 1944), writer
- Hans-Joachim Veen (* 1944), political scientist
- Jean Weissenbach (* 1946), geneticist
- Armand Angster (* 1947), clarinetist
- Joseph Daul (* 1947), politician ( UMP )
- Irène Kuhn (* 1947), Germanist, translator, writer and university teacher
- André Schneider (* 1947), politician (UMP)
- Thierry Mugler (* 1948), fashion designer and photographer
- Francis Wurtz (* 1948), politician ( PCF )
- Michel Warschawski (* 1949), Israeli peace activist and publicist
- Arsène Wenger (* 1949), football player and coach
- Jacques Blum (* 1950), mathematician and university professor
- Jean-Marie Bockel (* 1950), politician ( PS , La Gauche modern )
- Ronald Hirlé (1950–2019), publisher, author, photographer and the founder of the HIRLE publishing house
- Bernard Struber (* 1950), jazz musician and organist
- René Deutschmann (* 1951), soccer player
- Catherine Trautmann (* 1951), politician (PS)
- Guy-Dominique Kennel (* 1952), politician (UMP)
- Marie Pittroff (* 1952), German-French painter
- Jacques Vaillant (born 1952), singer
- Érik Izraelewicz (1954–2012), business journalist
- Klas Kärre (* 1954), Swedish physician and immunologist
- Michèle Wolf (* 1954), soccer player
- Filip Adwent (1955–2005), Polish politician
- Paul Knochel (* 1955), chemist
- Jean-Marie Speich (* 1955), Archbishop and Diplomat of the Holy See
- Patrice Meyer (* 1957), guitarist
- Elizabeth Sombart (* 1958), pianist
- François Jakubowski (* 1958), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Isabelle Graesslé (* 1959), director of the International Museum of the Reformation in Geneva
- Pascale Hugues (* 1959), journalist and writer
- Jackie Niebisch (* 1959), author and illustrator
1961 to 1980
- Benoît Dunoyer de Segonzac (* 1962), composer and bassist
- Philippe Beck (* 1963), writer, poet and philosopher
- Laurent Epstein (* 1964), jazz musician
- Martial Mischler (* 1964), wrestler
- Géraldine Keller (* 1966), singer
- Jean-Marc Foltz (* 1968), clarinetist
- Christophe Ohrel (* 1968), Swiss football player
- Éliette Abécassis (* 1969), writer
- Mathilde ter Heijne (* 1969), Dutch video and installation artist and university teacher
- Yvon Riemer (* 1970), wrestler
- Olivier Schmitthaeusler (* 1970), Roman Catholic priest
- Éric Vogel (* 1970), football player
- Virginie Delvingt (* 1971), badminton player
- Yann Wehrling (* 1971), illustrator and politician
- Salomé Haller (around 1975), opera and oratorio singer
- Valérien Ismaël (* 1975), football player and coach
- Martin Klein (* 1976), cook
- Petit (born 1976, Armando Gonçalves Teixeira ), football player
- Mehdi Baala (* 1978), middle distance runner
- Alex Lutz (* 1978), actor, comedian and theater director
- Cédric Kanté (* 1979), Malian football player
1981 to 2000
- Sanel Jahić (* 1981), Bosnian football player
- Nabil Dafi (* 1982), soccer player
- Paul-Henri Mathieu (* 1982), tennis player
- Gaëlle Baumann (* 1983), poker player
- Erwin Kehlhoffner (* 1983), badminton player
- Clément Halet (* 1984), football player
- Pio Marmaï (* 1984), actor
- Damien Waeghe (* 1984), handball player
- Yannick Imbs (* 1985), soccer player
- Karim Matmour (* 1985), Algerian-French football player
- M. Pokora (* 1985, Matthieu Tota ), pop and RnB singer
- Mickaël Robin (* 1985), handball player
- Zouhair Bouadoud (* 1986), football player
- Abraham Belaga (born 1986), actor
- Celine Distel-Bonnet (* 1987), athlete
- Tommy de Jong (born 1987), football player
- Stéphane Tritz (* 1987), football player
- Anthony Weber (* 1987), soccer player
- Luka Karabatić (* 1988), handball player
- Matthieu Dreyer (* 1989), soccer goalkeeper
- Jonathan Schmid (* 1990), Austrian-French soccer player
- Cyriaque Rivieyran (born 1991), football player
- Yann Benedick (* 1992), soccer player
- Thibaut Favrot (* 1994), ski racer
- Mickaël Cuisance (* 1999), soccer player
Well-known residents of Strasbourg
Until 1800
- Meister Eckhart (1260–1328), theologian, mystic and philosopher
- Jakob Twinger von Königshofen (1346–1420), chronicler and canon of St. Thomas Church
- Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445–1510), German poet and preacher
- Hieronymus Brunschwig (before 1450–1512), surgeon and author, city surgeon in Strasbourg from around 1475 to 1513
- Johannes Burckard (1450–1506), protonotary of the Holy See, 1484 to 1503 master of ceremonies at the Roman Curia, from 1503 bishop
- Johannes Reinhard alias Hans Grüninger (around 1455 - around 1532), printer and publisher
- Erasmus of Rotterdam (around 1467–1536), humanist
- Hans Baldung , called Grien (1484 / 85–1545), painter, draftsman and engraver
- Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547), humanist
- Lorenz Fries (around 1490–1531 / 32), doctor, astrologer and geographer
- Kaspar Schwenckfeld (1490–1561), theologian
- Martin Bucer (1491–1551), preacher and theologian of the Reformation
- Johannes Anglicus (1502–1577), Protestant theologian and hymn composer
- Johannes Sleidanus (1506–1556), German lawyer and diplomat
- Johannes Sturm (1507–1589), educator, founder of the Protestant grammar school
- John Calvin (1509–1564)
- Michael Servetus (1511–1553), Spanish physician, scholar, humanist, theologian and anti-Trinitarian
- Girolamo Zanchi (1516–1590), Reformed theologian, Old Testament scholar in Strasbourg
- Georg Brentel the Elder (1525 / 30–1610), coat of arms and miniature painter and draftsman
- Cyriakus Spangenberg (1528–1604), Protestant theologian and hymn poet
- Tobias Stimmer (1539–1584), Swiss painter
- Johann Carolus (1575–1634), printer, founder of the first Strasbourg weekly newspaper
- Melchior Junius (1545–1604) rhetorician and humanist
- Johannes Pappus (1549–1610), a Lutheran theologian and confessionalist
- Wolfhart Spangenberg (1567–1636), Meistersinger, author of animal pens and dramatic poems
- Matthias Bernegger (1582–1640), university professor, astronomer
- Caspar Brülow (1585–1627), professor of rhetoric and author of Latin school dramas
- Jakob Schaller (1604–1676), philosopher and theologian, provost of the St. Thomas chapter in Strasbourg and university professor
- Jesaias Rompler von Löwenhalt (1605–1672), German baroque poet
- Christoph Schorer (1618–1671), physician, writer and astrologer
- Joachim Karl von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1573–1615), mayor of the city, moved to Calvörde in 1608
- Andreas Silbermann (1678–1734), organ builder
- Johann Daniel Schöpflin (1694–1771) Professor of history, eloquence and constitutional law at the University of Strasbourg.
- Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789), composer and minster bandmaster
- Johann Hermann (1738–1800), French physician, naturalist, zoologist and author.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832) studied law in Strasbourg in 1770/1771; in Sessenheim (he wrote “Sesenheim”) he met the pastor's daughter Friederike Brion and wrote the “Sesenheimer Lieder” with the poems “Willkommen und Abschied” and “Heidenröslein”.
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792), German writer of Sturm und Drang
- Eulogius Schneider (1756–1794), German Jacobin
- Maximilian I of Bavaria (1756-1825), grew up in Strasbourg
- Ignaz Josef Pleyel (1757–1831), composer and minster bandmaster
- Maximilian von Montgelas (1759–1838), long-time minister of Maximilian I.
- Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760–1836) composed the Marseillaise in Strasbourg
- Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859), Austrian statesman, studied from 1788 to 1790 in Strasbourg
- Karl Spindler (1796–1855), German writer
1801 to 1900
- Philipp Graß (1801–1876), classicist sculptor
- Georg Büchner (1813–1837), writer (“Lenz”), studied medicine in Strasbourg
- Ludwig Friedländer (1824–1909), German classical philologist and cultural historian
- Jules Beck (1825–1904), Swiss high mountain photographer
- Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889), taught history at the University of Strasbourg
- Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833–1910) was the director of the Strasbourg University from 1883 to 1906
- Victor Ernst Nessler (1841–1890), composer
- Lujo Brentano (1844–1931), economist and social reformer
- Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927), physician, Nobel Prize winner
- Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German sociologist and cultural philosopher
- Georges Friedel (1865–1933), mineralogist, son of Charles Friedel
- Johannes Haller (1865–1947), German historian
- Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949), composer, general music director of the city for a decade
- Ernst von Dobschütz (1870–1934), theologian; In 1904 he succeeded Heinrich Holtzmann at the University of Strasbourg
- Émile Rupp (1872–1948), organist at Paulskirche
- Fritz Beblo (1872–1947 in Munich) German town planner, architect and painter
- Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), philosopher, theologian, doctor, musicologist, pastor, organ artist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Paul Rohmer (1876–1977), important pediatrician
- Otto Meissner (1880–1953), German politician, father of Hans-Otto Meissner
- Otto Klemperer (1885–1973), conductor, appointed to Strasbourg by Hans Pfitzner
- Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian, taught at the University of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1937, founder of the Annales d'histoire économique et sociale
- Hans Rosbaud (1895–1962), conductor
- George Szell (1897–1970), conductor
- Max Braubach (1899–1975), historian
- Pierre Meyer (1900–1964), French forester, from 1950 to 1964 Conservateur des Eaux et Forêts for the Bas-Rhin department
From 1901
- Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995), studied in Strasbourg from 1923 to 1927
- Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003), writer and philosopher
- Pierre Pflimlin (1907–2000), Lord Mayor of Strasbourg from 1959 to 1983, multiple Minister of the IV and V Republic, Prime Minister, President of the European Parliament, made Strasbourg a European city
- Lucie Aubrac (1912–2007), resistance fighter
- Ernest Bour (1913–2001), conductor, was trained and buried in Strasbourg
- Paul Ricœur (1913–2005), philosopher
- Raymond Aubrac (1914–2012), resistance fighter
- Hélène Boschi (1917–1990), pianist
- Edith Lechtape (1921–2001), artist
- Claude Vigée (* 1921), poet
- René Thom (1923–2002), mathematician
- Guy Debord (1931-1994), philosopher
- Sarkis Zabunyan (* 1938), Turkish-Armenian painter
- Alberto Fujimori (* 1938), former President of Peru
- Jean-Marie Lehn (* 1939), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987
- Alain Lombard (* 1940), conductor
- Adrien Zeller (1940–2009), politician (UMP)
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007), philosopher
- Jean-Luc Nancy (* 1940), philosopher
- Georges Aperghis (* 1945), Greek composer, was "composer in residence" in Strasbourg
- Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989), playwright and dramaturge, worked for a time at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg
- Barbara Honigmann (* 1949 in Berlin), German writer, has lived in Strasbourg since 1984
- John Howe (* 1957), Canadian draftsman
- Mireille Delunsch (* 1962), French soprano
- Jean-Louis Agobet (* 1968), French composer, was "composer in residence" in Strasbourg
- Marjane Satrapi (* 1969), Iranian-French comic artist