List of well-known personalities from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Numerous celebrities have studied or taught at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the associated Tübingen monasteries , Evangelisches Stift Tübingen and Wilhelmsstift . For a complete list of all professors at the University of Tübingen represented in Wikipedia, see category: University professors (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) . There is also the list of rectors at the University of Tübingen .
An overview by subject area:
theology
- Jakob Andreae (1528–1590), Protestant theologian, reformer and Chancellor of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
- Alfons Auer (1915–2005), Catholic theologian, professor of moral theology
- Carl Bardili (1600–1647), Protestant theologian, professor of anatomy and personal physician to Duke Eberhard III.
- Hermann Barth (1945–2017), Protestant theologian
- Karl Barth (1886–1968), Protestant theologian
- Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792–1860), Protestant theologian, professor of church history
- Christian Friedrich Baz (1762–1808), Protestant theologian, lawyer and advocate of the French Revolution
- Schalom Ben-Chorin (born Fritz Rosenthal) (1913–1999), Jewish journalist and religious scholar
- Otto Betz (1917–2005), Protestant theologian, professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies
- Christoph Blumhardt (1842–1919), Protestant theologian
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Protestant theologian
- Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976), Protestant theologian, professor of the New Testament
- Gerhard Ebeling (1912–2001), Protestant theologian, influential exponent of hermeneutic theology in the 20th century
- Johannes Eck (1486–1543), Catholic theologian and counter-reformer
- Heinrich Georg August Ewald (1803–1875), Protestant theologian, professor of theology and oriental studies
- Jürgen Fliege (* 1947), Protestant theologian
- Matthias Freudenberg (* 1962), Protestant theologian
- Ernst Fuchs (1903–1983), Professor of the New Testament
- Franz Xaver von Funk (1840–1907), Catholic theologian, professor of [ancient] church history
- Gebhard Fürst (* 1948), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese
- Kurt Goldammer (1916–1997), important German scholar of religion
- Anton Graf (1811–1867), Catholic theologian
- Norbert Greinacher (* 1931), Catholic theologian, professor of practical theology
- Romano Guardini (1885–1968), Catholic theologian
- Heike Hänsel (* 1966), Catholic theologian, politician (Die Linke), member of the Bundestag
- Gottlob Eberhard von Hafner (1785-1858), Protestant theologian
- Wilhelm Hahn (1909–1996), Protestant theologian, politician (CDU), Minister of Culture of Baden-Württemberg
- Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827), theologian, writer of romance , belongs to the Swabian school of poetry
- Carl Friedrich Haug (1795–1869), Protestant theologian, professor of universal history
- Martin Haug (1895–1983), Protestant theologian, regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
- Bruno Heck (1917–1989), Catholic theologian, Federal Minister (Family)
- Karl Joseph von Hefele (1809–1893), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), Protestant theologian, professor of philosophy
- Volkmar Herntrich (1908–1958), Protestant theologian, regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state
- Johannes von Hieber (1862–1951), Protestant theologian, President of Württemberg
- Matthaeus Hiller (1646–1725), Protestant theologian, clergyman and abbot
- Johann Baptist von Hirscher (1788–1865), Catholic theologian, professor of moral theology and catechesis
- Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), Protestant theologian, poet
- Wilhelm Holder (1542–1609), Protestant theologian, Abbot of Maulbronn
- Karl Holl (1866–1926), Protestant theologian, professor of Protestant theology and church history, member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Wolfgang Huber (* 1942), Protestant theologian, bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany
- Aegidius Hunnius the Elder (1550–1603), Protestant theologian
- Eberhard Jüngel (* 1934), Protestant theologian, professor of systematic theology, Pour le Mérite
- Ernst Käsemann (1906–1998), Lutheran theologian, professor of the New Testament
- Margot Käßmann (* 1958), Protestant theologian, regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and chairwoman of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany
- Walter Kasper (* 1933), Catholic theologian, professor, cardinal in the Vatican
- Balthasar kauffelin (around 1490–1559), Protestant theologian and professor
- Paul Wilhelm von Keppler (1852–1926), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg diocese
- Otto Kirn (1857–1911), Protestant theologian and university professor
- Bertold Klappert (* 1939), Protestant theologian, professor of systematic theology
- Johann Conrad Klemm (1655–1717), Protestant theologian
- Otto Knoch (1926–1993), Catholic theologian, professor of introductory biblical studies and biblical kerygmatics
- Manfred Kock (* 1936), Protestant theologian, President and Council Chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany
- Nathanael Friedrich von Köstlin (1776–1855), professor of practical theology
- Hans Küng (* 1928), Catholic theologian, professor of ecumenical theology
- Heinrich Lang (1826–1876), Protestant theologian
- Karl Joseph Leiprecht (1903–1981), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg diocese
- Maximilian von Lingg (1842–1930), Catholic theologian, 78th Bishop of Augsburg
- Franz Xaver von Linsenmann (1835–1898), Catholic theologian, professor of moral and pastoral theology and bishop's select from Rottenburg
- Josef von Lipp (1795–1869), Catholic theologian, Bishop of Rottenburg.
- Jakob Magirus (1562 / 1564–1624), hymn poet, Protestant abbot in Lorch
- Christoph Markschies (* 1962), Protestant theologian, professor of church history and President of the Humboldt University in Berlin
- Rupert Mayer (1876–1945), Catholic theologian
- Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), reformer
- Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), Protestant theologian, poet
- Jürgen Moltmann (* 1926), Protestant theologian, professor of systematic theology
- Georg Moser (1923–1988), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese
- Ludolf Hermann Müller (1882–1959), Protestant theologian, bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony
- Karl-Ernst Nipkow (1928–2014), Protestant theologian, religious educator
- Heiko Augustinus Oberman (1930–2001), Protestant theologian, professor of church history
- Richard Puza (* 1943), Catholic theologian, professor of canon law
- Konrad Raiser (* 1938), Protestant theologian, professor of systematic theology and general secretary of the World Council
- Joseph Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI.) (* 1927), Catholic theologian, professor, Pope
- Jacob Reihing (1579–1628), Protestant theologian, professor, convert, former Jesuit
- Richard von Rieß (1823–1898), Catholic theologian and cathedral chapter
- Philip Schaff (1819–1893), Protestant theologian and church historian
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854), Protestant theologian, professor
- Lorenz Scheurl (1558–1613), clergyman, theologian and university professor in Helmstedt, student in Tübingen
- Adolf Schlatter (1852–1938), Protestant theologian, professor of natural philosophy
- Lukas Schleppel (15th century – 1519), Catholic auxiliary bishop in Speyer
- Christian Friedrich Schmid (1794–1852), Protestant theologian, professor of practical theology and morality
- Hans Schmidt (1877–1953), Protestant theologian, associate professor for the Old Testament
- Gerhard Schneider (* 1969), Catholic theologian, auxiliary bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese
- Eberhard Schockenhoff (1953–2020), Catholic theologian
- Klaus Scholder (1930–1985), Protestant theologian, professor of Protestant church history
- Anselm Schott (1843-1896), Catholic theologian
- Manfred Schulze (* 1945), Protestant theologian, professor of church history
- Joannes Baptista Sproll (1870–1949), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese
- Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949), Catholic theologian, rector of the University of Tübingen
- David Friedrich Strauss (1808–1874), Protestant theologian
- Wilhelm Gottlieb Tafinger (1691–1757), Protestant clergyman, theologian, professor at the university and general superintendent and abbot of Adelberg
- Paul Tillich (1886–1965), Protestant theologian, professor at Harvard University
- Otto Umfrid (1857–1920), Protestant theologian
- Antje Vollmer (* 1943), Protestant theologian
- Magnus Weidemann (1880–1967), Protestant theologian, painter, graphic artist, photographer and author
- Christian Eberhard Weißmann (1677–1747), Protestant theologian and church historian
- Carl Heinrich Weizsäcker (1822–1899), Protestant theologian, professor, rector and from 1889 to 1899 chancellor of the university
- Rudolf Weth (* 1937), Protestant theologian
- Hubert Wolf (* 1959), Catholic theologian, professor of church history
Linguistics
- Martin Crusius or Martin Krauß (1526–1607), classical philologist and historian
- Helga Gallas (* 1940), Germanist, journalist and literary scholar
- Evelyne Gebhardt (* 1954), politician
- August Schleicher (1821–1868), linguist
- Hans Krahe (1898–1965), philologist and linguist
- Antonio Tovar (1911–1984), philologist, linguist and historian
- Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002), Romance studies and general linguist
law Sciences
- Asfa-Wossen Asserate (* 1948), management consultant, bestselling author and political analyst
- Manfred Balz (* 1944), member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG
- Martin Bangemann (* 1934), politician
- Burckhard Bardili (1629–1692), lawyer, professor
- Fritz Baur (1911–1992), lawyer and professor
- Fritz Bauer (1903–1968), co-initiator of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials
- Jürgen Baumann (1922–2003), legal scholar and FDP politician
- Bernhard Beck (* 1954), member of the management board of EnBW AG
- Johannes Bell (1868–1949), politician and lawyer
- Axel Berg (* 1959), politician
- Christoph Besold (1577–1638), lawyer and state scholar
- Josef Beyerle (1881–1963), lawyer and politician
- Frieder Birzele (* 1940), politician
- Lorenz Bock (1883–1948), lawyer and politician
- Rudolf Böhmler (* 1946), member of the Board of Management of the Deutsche Bundesbank, former State Secretary D.
- Eugen Bolz (1881–1945), politician
- Johann Viktor Bredt (1879–1940), constitutional lawyer and politician
- Fred Breinersdorfer (* 1946), screenwriter, film producer and lawyer
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Breyer (1749–1777), from 1772 associate professor, from 1774 full professor of law
- Siegfried Broß (* 1946), legal scholar
- Ewald Bucher (1914–1991), politician
- Oskar von Bülow (1837–1907), legal scholar
- Herta Däubler-Gmelin (* 1943), lawyer and politician
- Richard Dewes (* 1948), politician
- Hans Dölle (1893–1980), lawyer and university professor
- Alfred Dregger (1920–2002), politician
- Günter Dürig (1920–1996), professor of constitutional law
- Josef Hermann Dufhues (1908–1971), politician
- Michael Eichberger (* 1953), lawyer
- Matthäus Enzlin (1556–1613), lawyer
- Walter Erbe (1909–1967), politician
- Klaus Esser (* 1947), lawyer and manager
- Josef Esser (1910–1999), legal scholar
- Oskar Farny (1891–1983), officer, manager in agriculture and politician
- Robert Fischer (1911–1983), lawyer
- Werner Flume (1908–2009), legal scholar and professor of Roman law, civil law, tax law and legal history
- Hans-Joachim Fuchtel (* 1952), politician
- Wilhelm Ganzhorn (1818–1880), lawyer and court actuary
- Heinrich von Gauß (1858–1921), Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
- Heiner Geißler (1930–2017), politician
- Otto Geßler (1875–1955), politician
- Hans Gmelin (1911–1991), lawyer
- Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945), lawyer, politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Tanja Gönner (* 1969), politician
- Gerhard Goll (* 1942), lawyer, politician and business manager
- Hans Goudefroy (1900–1961), lawyer
- Adolf Gröber (1854–1919), lawyer and politician
- Ludwig Grosse (1907–1992), business lawyer and recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Evelyn Haas (* 1949), honorary professor
- Volker Haas (* 1963), legal scholar
- Hansjörg Häfele (* 1932), politician
- Ulrich von Hassell (1881–1944), local politician, diplomat and resistance fighter
- Otto Haußleiter (1896–?), Political scientist and administrative officer
- Wolfgang Haußmann (1903–1989), politician
- Karl Heck (1896–1997), judge
- Wolfgang Heine (1861–1944), lawyer and politician
- Hans Jochen Henke (* 1945), politician
- Jakob Henrichmann (around 1482–1561), humanist, lawyer and clergyman
- Karl Ferdinand Theodor Hepp (1800-1851), criminal lawyer
- Georg Herwegh (1817–1875), socialist-revolutionary poet from Vormärz
- Roman Herzog (1934–2017), honorary professor
- Otto Hirsch (1885–1941), managing director of the Reich Representation of German Jews
- Karl Christoph Hofacker (1749–1793), legal scholar and Württemberg councilor
- Johann Daniel Hoffmann (1740–1814), legal scholar, professor and privy councilor
- Ferdinand von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1865–1927), King of Romania
- Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1811–1885), ruling Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- Stefan von Holtzbrinck (* 1963), lawyer and publisher
- Christine Hohmann-Denhardt (* 1950), lawyer and politician
- Dieter Hömig (1938–2016), judge
- Karl Friedrich von Hufnagel (1788–1848), legal scholar and politician
- Philipp Jenninger (1932–2018), politician
- Dietrich Katzenstein (1923-2008), judge
- Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter (1852–1912), diplomat
- Klaus Kinkel (1936–2019), politician and lawyer
- Ferdinand Kirchhof (* 1950), lawyer and legal scholar
- Claus Kleber (* 1955), lawyer, journalist, book author and television presenter
- Arnulf Klett (1905–1974), Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
- Christian Reinhold Köstlin (1813–1856), professor of criminal law
- Ulrich Köstlin (* 1952), business lawyer and manager
- Volker Kröning (* 1945), politician
- Christian Lange (* 1964), politician
- Helmut Lemke (1907–1990), politician
- August Lentze (1860–1945), municipal official and finance minister
- Thomas Lobinger (* 1966), legal scholar
- Geert Mackenroth (* 1950), lawyer and politician
- Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz (* 1929), administrative lawyer, politician, minister and lawyer
- Reinhold Maier (1889–1971), politician
- Julius Friedrich von Malblanc (1752–1828), legal scholar, multiple rector of the university
- Hermann von Mangoldt (1895–1953), legal scholar and politician
- Ulrich Maurer (* 1948), politician
- Hermann Adolph Meinders (1665–1730), lawyer, clerk and historian
- Rudolf Mellinghoff (* 1954), legal scholar
- Adolf Merckle (1934–2009), entrepreneur, investor and lawyer
- Oswald Metzger (* 1954), politician and publicist
- Hermann von Mittnacht (1825–1909), lawyer
- Gebhard Müller (1900–1990), politician
- Ulrich Müller (* 1944), politician
- Johannes Nauclerus (1425–1510), scholar, theologian, legal scholar and historian
- Karl Friedrich Nebenius (1784–1857), Baden civil servant, liberal minister of state and Freemason
- Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (1873–1956), diplomat
- Günther Oettinger (* 1953), politician
- Helmut Ohnewald (1936–2018), politician
- Dietrich Oldenburg (* 1933), lawyer and writer
- Guntram Palm (1931–2013), lawyer, state central bank president and politician
- Friedrich von Payer (1847–1931), politician
- Anton Pfeifer (* 1937), politician
- Felix Porsch (1853–1930), lawyer and politician
- Martin Prenninger (around 1450–1501), humanist and legal scholar
- Ludwig Raiser (1904–1980), professor of civil, commercial and economic law
- Edmund Rau (1868–1953), lawyer
- Kurt Rebmann (1924-2005), lawyer
- Viktor Renner (1899–1969), lawyer and politician
- Manfred Rommel (1928–2013), politician
- Ernst Gustav von Rümelin (1785–1850), senior bailiff and member of the state parliament
- Carl Sartorius (1865–1945), lawyer
- Albert Sauer (1902–1981), politician, honorary senator at the University of Tübingen (1960)
- Alfred Sauter (* 1950), politician
- Hugo Schäffer (1875–1945), lawyer and politician
- Hermann Schaufler (* 1947), politician
- Wolfgang Schieren (1927–1996), insurance manager
- Dietmar Schlee (1938–2002), politician
- Hartwig Schlegelberger (1913–1997), politician
- Rüdiger Schleicher (1895–1945), lawyer, pioneer of air law and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Matthias Seeger (* 1955), lawyer
- Albrecht Schmidt (* 1938), lawyer and bank manager
- Carlo Schmid (1896–1979), politician and constitutional lawyer
- Nils Schmid (* 1973), politician
- Heinrich Schönfelder (1902–1944) lawyer, editor and author
- Eduard von Schrader (1779–1860), legal scholar, professor, senior tribunal councilor and honorary senator
- Henning Schulte-Noelle (* 1942), manager
- Wolfgang Schuster (* 1949), Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
- Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905–1944), lawyer and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
- Heinrich von Sick (1822–1881), Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
- Adolf Theis (1933–2013), President of the University of Tübingen from 1972 to 1995
- Regine Stachelhaus (* 1955), lawyer
- Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862), poet, literary scholar, lawyer and politician
- Nikolaus Varnbuler (1519–1604), legal scholar, diplomat and professor
- Kristiane Weber-Hassemer (* 1939), judge
- Karl von Weizsäcker (1853–1926), politician
- Corinna Werwigk-Hertneck (* 1952), politician
- Ruth Wetzel-Steinwedel (* 1948), lawyer
- Eberhard Wildermuth (1890–1952), politician
- Matthias Wissmann (* 1949), lobbyist and politician
- Albrecht Duke of Württemberg (1865–1939)
- Charles I (Württemberg) (1823-1891), third king of Württemberg
- Wilhelm II (Württemberg) (1848–1921)
- Joachim Zahn (1914–2002), industrial lawyer
Economics
- Ernst Albrecht (1930–2014), politician
- Walter Eucken (1891–1950), economist
- Filmon Ghirmai (* 1979), German athlete
- Helmut Haussmann (* 1943), politician
- Rudolf Hickel (* 1942), economist
- Friedrich List (1789-1846), professor
- Horst Köhler (* 1943), Federal President, honorary professor since 2003
- Balduin Penndorf (1873–1941), economist and business school teacher
- Dieter Pohmer (1925–2013), professor of economics, especially finance
- Wilhelm Rall (* 1946), honorary professor since 2003
- Gustav von Rümelin (1815–1889), Professor of Statistics, Comparative Political Science and Philosophy 1867–1889
- Rudolf Schwarz (1904–1963), writer and parapsychologist
- Jürgen Stark (* 1948), ECB chief economist, honorary professor since 2005
- Joachim Starbatty (* 1940), ordoliberal economist , politician
- Lutz Stavenhagen (1940–1992), politician
- Klaus Töpfer (* 1938), politician, honorary professor since 2005
- Walter Troeltsch (1866–1933), political economist
- Eckhard Wandel (* 1942), economic and social historian, entrepreneur, manager and business consultant
- Martin Biewen , university professor for statistics, econometrics and quantitative methods
sociology
- Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), sociologist, politician and publicist
- Regine Gildemeister (* 1949), sociologist
medicine
- Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), psychiatrist and neuropathologist
- Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Autenrieth (1772–1835), physician
- Erwin Bälz (1849–1913), internist, tropical medicine specialist and anthropologist
- Carl Bardili (1600–1647), physician, professor, personal physician to the Duke of Württemberg
- Theodor Bilharz (1825–1862), physician, physician and natural scientist
- Günter Blobel (1936–2018), biochemist
- Hans Erhard Bock (1903–2004), internist and university professor
- Heinrich von Breslau (1784–1851), pharmacologist, personal physician to the King of Bavaria and privy councilor
- Korbinian Brodmann (1868–1918), neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
- Dietrich Falke (* 1927), specialist in medical microbiology and infectious diseases
- Detlev Ganten (* 1941), specialist in pharmacology and clinical pharmacology
- Robert Eugen Gaupp (1870–1953), psychiatrist and neurologist
- Wilhelm Griesinger (1817–1868), internist, psychiatrist and neurologist
- Martin Heidenhain (1864–1949), anatomist
- Ekkehard Kallee (1922–2012), university professor and nuclear medicine specialist
- Justinus Kerner (1786–1862), doctor, medical writer and poet
- Martin Kirschner (1879–1942), surgeon and university professor
- Ernst Kretschmer (1888–1964), psychiatrist
- Hubert von Luschka (1820–1875), anatomist
- Hans Joachim Mallach (1924–2001), medical examiner
- Albrecht Nagel (1833–1895), ophthalmologist, director of the University Eye Clinic
- Paul Pulewka (1896–1989), director of the Institute of Toxicology
- Leopold Sokrates von Riecke (1790–1876), professor of surgery and obstetrics
- Hans-Konrad Selbmann (* 1941), medical computer scientist and professor emeritus
- Alfred Storch (1888–1962), psychiatrist
- Eugen Wannenmacher (1897–1974), university professor and SS-Sturmbannführer in the office of the Reichsarzzte SS
- Ernst Weinmann (1907–1947), SS-Obersturmbannführer and convicted war criminal
- Erich Wintermantel (* 1956), doctor and engineer
- Arne Gabius (* 1981), middle and long distance runner
Classical Philology
- Heinrich Bebel (1472 or 1473–1518), poet
- Martin Crusius (1526–1607), classical philologist and historian
- Hans Flach (1845–1895), classical philologist
- Gottlieb Friedrich Jäger (1783–1843), Protestant clergyman, theologian and university professor
- Walter Jens (1923–2013), classical philologist, literary historian, writer, critic and translator
- Ioannis Kakridis (1901–1992), classical philologist
- Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), classical philologist, philosopher, humanist, Lutheran theologian, textbook author and neo-Latin poet
- Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1900–1974), literary scholar, classical philologist and translator
- Margarete Sorg-Rose , composer, conductor, author
- Erwin Rohde (1845–1898), classical philologist
- Jens Holzhausen (* 1963), classical philologist
Bioinformatics
- Sebastian Nerz (* 1983), politician
General rhetoric
- Georg Burckhardt (1539–1607), philosopher and professor of logic and rhetoric
- Walter Jens (1923–2013), classical philologist, literary historian, writer, critic and translator
- Gert Ueding (* 1942), Germanist and university lecturer
- Joachim Knape (* 1950), literary scholar
geography
- Elmar Kuhn (* 1944), local history researcher
German studies
- Friedrich Beißner (1905–1977), editor of Hölderlin's works
- Jakob Bleyer (1874–1933), Hungarian Minister for National Minorities and Honorary Senator and Honorary Doctor of the University of Tübingen
- Erhard Eppler (1926-2019), German politician (SPD)
- Eugen Gerstenmaier (1906–1986), member of the Kreisau Circle and President of the Bundestag
- Regina Gottschalk , winner of the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize
- Joachim Kaiser (1928–2017), music critic
- Hellmuth Karasek (1934-2015), literary critic
- Adelbert von Keller (1812–1883), translator and editor
- Fritz Kuhn (* 1955), politician
- Hans Mommsen (1930–2015), historian
- Thomas Oppermann (* 1954), politician
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920–2013), author and publicist
- Ulrich Tukur (* 1957), actor and musician
- Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862), poet, literary scholar, lawyer and politician
- Siegfried Unseld (1924–2002), publisher
- Martin Walser (* 1927), writer
- Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813), poet and translator
- Bernhard Zeller (1919–2008), founding director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach
- Benjamin Piel (* 1984), journalist and winner of the Theodor Wolff Prize
History and Classical Studies
- Kurt Bittel (1907–1991), professor of prehistory and early history , excavator of Hattuscha
- Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922–2016), political scientist and historian
- Martin Doerry (* 1955), journalist and author
- Walter Döring (* 1954), politician
- Horst Fuhrmann (1926–2011), Professor of Medieval and Modern History 1962–1971, Pour le Mérite
- Werner Gauer (* 1937), professor of classical archeology
- Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994), prehistorian and anthropologist
- Joachim Hahn (1942–1997), prehistoric
- Carl Friedrich Haug (1795–1869), Protestant Lutheran theologian and historian
- Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017), historian
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904–1988), Federal Chancellor 1966–1969
- Wolfgang Kimmig (1910–2001), Professor of Prehistory and Early History
- Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005), professor of prehistory and early history, excavator in Troia
- Christoph Jakob Kremer (1722–1777), historian and lawyer from the Electoral Palatinate in Mannheim
- Günther Krahe (* 1928), state curator
- Elmar Kuhn (* 1944), local history researcher
- Hansjürgen Müller-Beck (1927–2018), professor of prehistory
- Sten Nadolny (* 1942), writer
- Eberhard Naujoks (1915–1996), historian and university professor
- Hans Rothfels (1891–1976), historian
- Kurt Sethe (1869–1934), Egyptologist
- Robert Rudolf Schmidt (1882–1950), prehistorian and archaeologist
- Barbara Scholkmann (* 1941), professor of archeology in the Middle Ages
- Albert Schwegler (1819–1857), theologian, philosopher and historian
- Theo Sommer (* 1930), journalist
- Hans Speidel (1897–1984), general, lecturer in modern history
- Philipp W. Stockhammer (* 1977), prehistorian, archaeologist and university lecturer
- Johannes Straub (1912–1996), ancient historian
- Thekla Walker (* 1969), politician
- Heinrich August Winkler (* 1938), historian
- Wilhelm Zimmermann (1807–1878), Protestant theologian, poet, historian
Philosophy / art
- Gabriel Biel (before 1410–1495), scholastic philosopher
- Stefanie Bielmeier (* 1954), writer and art historian
- Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosopher
- Georg Dehio (1850–1932), art historian
- Eve-Marie Engels (* 1951), philosopher and science historian
- Hanno Hahn (1922–1960), art historian and architectural researcher
- Otfried Höffe (* 1943), philosopher
- Hans Holländer (1932–2017), art historian
- Wolfgang Kermer (* 1935), art historian, art educator, author, editor and university professor
- Kevin Kuhn (* 1981), author
- Karl Reinhold von Köstlin (1819–1894), professor of art history and aesthetics
- Julian Nida-Rümelin (* 1954), philosopher
- Jakob Friedrich Reiff (1810–1879), philosopher
- Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522), philosopher, humanist, lawyer and diplomat
- Johann Eberhard Rösler (1668–1733), philosopher, librarian and pedagogue
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854), philosopher and anthropologist
- Burghart Schmidt (* 1942), philosopher
- Helmut Schoeck (1922–1993), sociologist and publicist
- Andreas Heinrich Schott (1758–1831), philosopher, librarian and pedagogue
- Walter Schulz (1912–2000), philosopher
- Gustav Schwab (1792–1850), pastor, high school professor and writer
- Ernst Seidl
- Fridolin Stier (1902–1981), Catholic theologian
- Dieter Stolte (* 1934), journalist and former television manager
- Michel Tournier (1924-2016), writer
Musicology
- Georg von Dadelsen (1918–2007), German Bach researcher
- Walther Dürr (1932–2018), Schubert researcher, editor-in-chief of the New Schubert Edition
- Arnold Feil (1925–2019), music historian, founder of the International Franz Schubert Society
- Walter Gerstenberg (1904–1988), musicologist
- Martin Karl Hasse (1883–1960), composer and music writer
- Thomas Kohlhase (* 1941), musicologist
- Thomas Schipperges (* 1959), musicologist and university professor
- Ernst Fritz Schmid (1904–1960), musicologist and Mozart expert
- Manfred Hermann Schmid (* 1947), Mozart and Beethoven research, music notation
- Margarete Sorg-Rose (* 1960), composer, conductor, author, musicologist
- Andreas Traub (* 1949), musicologist and university professor
- Fritz Volbach (1861–1940), conductor, composer and musicologist
pedagogy
- Otto Friedrich Bollnow (1903–1991), philosopher and educator
- Andreas Flitner (1922–2016), Professor of Education
- Oswald Kroh (1887–1955), educator and psychologist
- Rudolf Sauter (1925–2013), pedagogue, philologist, dialect poet and university professor
- Eduard Spranger (1882–1963), philosopher, educator and psychologist
- Hans Thiersch (* 1935), professor
- Arne Ulbricht (* 1972), writer and teacher
psychology
- Rudolf Bergius (1914-2004), social psychologist
- Niels Birbaumer (* 1945), brain researcher, clinical psychologist, researched the mechanisms of biofeedback at the interface to medicine
- Martin Hautzinger (* 1950), clinical psychologist
- Gerhard Kaminski (* 1925), psychologist from the field of general psychology
- Dirk Revenstorf (* 1939), psychologist for psychotherapy and intervention
Political science
Up until the end of the 19th century, political science was called "Regiminalwissenschaft".
- Klaus von Beyme (* 1934), political scientist
- Theodor Eschenburg (1904–1999), full professor of political science
- Theophil Friedrich von Hack (1843–1911), Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
- Ulrich Kienzle (1936–2020), journalist, publicist and Middle East expert
- Elmar Kuhn (* 1944), local history researcher
- Christoph Palmer (* 1962), management consultant
- Ernst Pfister (* 1947), politician
- Hans Bernhard Graf von Schweinitz (1926–2008), ministerial official, politician and writer
- Jörg-Otto Spiller (* 1942), politician
- Annette Widmann-Mauz (* 1966), politician
- Timm Kern (* 1972), politician
- Hans-Georg Wehling (* 1938), political scientist
Romance Studies
- Andreas Schockenhoff (1957–2014), politician
- Rita Süssmuth (* 1937), politician
- Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002), Romance studies and general linguist
- Johannes Kabatek
- Peter Koch (1951–2014), linguist, Romanist, Frenchist, Italianist and Medievalist
- Adolfo Murguia
- Wido Hempel (1930-2006), Romanist
- Maren Kroymann (* 1949), actress, cabaret artist, singer
Slavic Studies
- Ludolf Müller (1917–2009), Slavist and literary scholar
Political Science
- Gustav Kolb (1798–1865), publicist for the Allgemeine Zeitung
- Richard Stegemann (1856–1925), economist and Chamber of Commerce secretary. First doctorate in 1885 on Karl Marx 's Das Kapital
- Robert Tillmanns (1896–1955), politician
Natural sciences or mathematics
- Lothar Binding (* 1950), member of the Bundestag
- Günter Blobel (1936–2018), biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999
- Valentin Braitenberg (1926–2011), brain researcher and cyberneticist
- Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1909
- Werner Braunbek (1901–1977), professor of theoretical physics
- Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907
- Erwin Bünning (1906–1990), full professor of botany
- Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939
- Rudolph Jacob Camerarius (1665–1721), professor of botany
- Rolf Claessen (* 1972), patent attorney
- Carl Correns (1864–1933), private lecturer in botany
- Theodor Eimer (1843–1898), professor of zoology and comparative anatomy
- Samuel Eisenmenger , called Siderocrates (1534–1585), mathematics
- Matthias Ettrich (* 1972), computer scientist, initiator of the KDE project
- Wolfgang Feist (* 1954), physicist
- Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), botanist
- Hans Geiger (1882–1945), physicist
- Walther Gerlach (1889–1979), professor of physics
- Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804), botanist, professor of medicine
- Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755), professor of botany
- Leopold Gmelin (1788-1853), chemist
- Philipp Friedrich Gmelin (1721–1768), professor of botany
- Andreas Goldmayer (1602–1665), mathematician, astronomer and calendar maker , stud.
- Robert Gradmann (1865–1950), doctorate. botany
- Günther Graup (1940–2006), geologist and impact researcher
- Gregor Hagedorn (* 1965), botanist
- Jürgen Hambrecht (* 1946), Chairman of the Board of Management of BASF
- Johann Daniel Hofacker (1788–1828), veterinarian
- Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824–1877), full professor of botany
- Peter Hans Hofschneider (1929–2004), pioneer of German molecular biology
- Edwin Hennig (1882–1977), professor of geology and paleontology
- Walter Hückel (1895–1973), professor and director of the Pharmaceutical-Chemical Institute
- Karl Hummel (1902–1987), Professor of Pharmacognosy
- Johann Christian Hundeshagen (1783–1834), Professor of Forest Sciences
- Claus Jönsson (* 1930), professor of physics, discoverer of the interference of electrons at the double slit
- Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), astronomer
- Karl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765–1844), full professor of botany
- Christof Koch (* 1956), neuroscientist
- Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733–1806), botanist
- Walther Kossel (1888–1956), professor of physics
- Erwin Kulzer (1928–2014), professor of zoology
- Ernst Lehmann (1880–1957), full professor of botany
- Maria Countess von Linden-Aspermont (1869–1936), the first female student in Tübingen and Württemberg
- Karl Mägdefrau (1907–1999), full professor of botany
- Michael Mästlin (1550–1631), astronomer
- Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), chemist
- Hartmut Michel (* 1948), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988
- Hugo von Mohl (1805–1872), full professor of botany
- Hans Mohr (1930–2016), biologist
- Eugen Müller (1905–1976), professor of applied chemistry
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (* 1942), biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995
- Boris Palmer (* 1972), politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens )
- Friedrich Paschen (1865–1947), Professor of Experimental Physics 1901–1924
- Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920), full professor of botany
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Friedrich August von Quenstedt (1809–1889), professor of geology and mineralogy, paleontologistFriedrich August von Quenstedt in regalia as rector of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
- William Ramsay (1852–1916), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1904
- Otto E. Rössler (* 1940), chaos researcher
- Hans Rotta (1921–2008), publisher, editor, editor and biologist
- Wilhelm Ruhland (1878–1960), full professor of botany
- Bert Sakmann (* 1942), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991
- Klaus Sander (1929–2015), biologist
- Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635), professor of biblical languages, astronomy, mathematics and surveying; Builder of the first calculating machine
- Konrad Schily (* 1937), member of the Bundestag and founding president of the University of Witten / Herdecke
- Bernhard Schölkopf (* 1968), mathematician
- Heinrich Friedrich Siedentopf (1906–1963), astronomer
- Wolfgang Straßer (1941–2015), professor of computer science ( computer graphics ); Co-founder of the Wilhelm Schickard Institute
- Johannes Stöffler (1452–1531), astronomer
- Dieter Vogellehner (1937–2002), botany
- Hermann von Vöchting (1847–1917), professor of botany
- Georg Wagner (1885–1972), professor of applied geology
- Detlef Weigel (* 1961), German-American biologist
- Otti Wilmanns (* 1928), biologist
- Wilhelm Wislicenius (1861–1922), full professor of chemistry
- Georg Wittig (1897–1987), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979
- Walter Zimmermann (1892–1980), professor of botany
Sports science
- Ommo Grupe (1930–2015), sports scientist
- Tobias Unger (* 1979), athlete
- Saban Uzun (* 1987), football coach
- Veit Wank (* 1963), sports scientist
Web links
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