List of well-known Lower Franconia
This is a list of well-known personalities who come from the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia or who worked there.
- Walther von der Vogelweide (~ 1170–1230), minstrel
- Tilman Riemenschneider (around 1460–1531), sculptor
- Balthasar Neumann (1687–1753), baroque master builder
- Friedrich Koenig (1774–1833), printer and inventor of the high-speed press
- Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796–1866), doctor, traveler to Japan and naturalist
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923), discoverer of the rays named after him and first winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Ernst Sachs (1867–1932), industrialist and inventor
- Carl Diem (1882–1962), sports scientist and functionary
- Leonhard Frank (1882–1961), writer
- Max Hermann von Freeden (1913–2001), art historian
- Andreas Kupfer (1914–2001), football player
- Jack Steinberger (* 1921), Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Michael A. Roth (* 1935), entrepreneur and former president of 1. FC Nürnberg
- Armin Grein (* 1939) federal chairman and co-founder of the Free Voters
- Jutta Ditfurth (* 1951), politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens )
- Thomas Bach (* 1953) Olympic champion in fencing and sports functionary (including President of the IOC )
- Felix Magath (* 1953), soccer player and coach
- Frank-Markus Barwasser (* 1960), cabaret artist and journalist
- Achim Greser (* 1961) & Heribert Lenz (* 1958), cartoonists duo
- Urban Priol (* 1961), cabaret artist
- Bernd Hollerbach (* 1969), soccer player and coach
- Tommy Jaud (* 1970), writer and screenwriter
- Frank Baumann (* 1975), soccer player
- Dirk Nowitzki (* 1978), basketball player in the NBA
- Nadine Angerer (* 1978), soccer player (world and European champion)
- Thomas Lurz (* 1979), swimmer
- Heiko Westermann (* 1983), soccer player
- Herbert Trimbach (* 1954), German lawyer
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