List of non-native Speyer

The list of non-native Speyer residents includes people with ties to the city of Speyer who were neither born there nor made honorary citizens .

Personalities who worked in Speyer

Born before 1700

• Rucker von Lauterburg (1400–1466), rector of the University of Leipzig, vicar general in Speyer
• Johann von Mutterstadt (1400–1472), cathedral vicar and historian
• Jakob Wimpfeling (1450–1528), humanist, cathedral vicar and cathedral preacher
• Johann Kranich von Kirchheim (~ 1455–1534), aristocratic Catholic priest, canon in the Principality of Speyer
• Johann von Hattstein († 1546), German Johanniter Grand Prior and President of the Imperial Court of Justice
• Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer (1485–1575), judge at the Imperial Court of Justice, historian
• Johann Renner (1525–1583), notary and chronicler
• Johann Sebastian von Hirnheim († 1555), judge at the Imperial Court of Justice, buried in the cathedral
• Caspar Schober (1504–1532), judge at the Imperial Court of Justice, epitaph in the cathedral
• Wilhelm Besserer (around 1539 - 1601), painter and cartographer, probably also born in Speyer
• Franz Jügert (1563–1638), Syndic of the city of Speyer and assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice
• Johann Konrad Schragmüller , theologian and professor at the University of Marburg
• Johann Seger Ruland (1683-1745), merchant, developed in Speyer a new variety that after him Ruländer is called

18th century

• Adrian Andreas Pfannenschmidt (1724–1790), dye works owner and entrepreneur
• Christoph Mähler (1736-1814), cath. City pastor at the time of the French Revolution and occupation
• Andreas Riem (1749–1814), theologian and publicist of the Enlightenment period, lawyer in Speyer, died in the Bürgerhospital
• Franz Joseph Pfeiffer (1772–1847), salt minister, ennobled, grandfather of Henry Villard
• Georg von Jäger (1778–1863), educator, ennobled
• Ludwig von Redwitz (1779–1848), chief customs inspector in Speyer, father of the poet Oskar von Redwitz
• Wilhelm von Horn (1784–1847), military commander of the Palatinate, major general in the Bavarian Army
• Joseph Kellerhoven (1789–1849), painter
• Franz Alwens (1792–1871), President of the Palatinate government
• Friedrich Magnus Schwerd (1792–1871), natural scientist
• Peter Gayer (1793–1836), district archivist, draftsman and historian
• Christian Heinrich Gilardone (1798–1874), poet

19th century

• Johann Carl Koch (1806–1900), German painter
• Johann Baptist Benz (1807–1880), composer and cathedral music director
• Maximilian Joseph von Lamotte (1809–1887), Vice-President of the Government, Chairman of the 1st Cathedral Building Association
• Eduard Rottmanner (1809–1843), composer and cathedral music director
• Ludwig Schandein (1813–1894), district archivist, historian, dialect poet
• Gottfried Renn (1818–1900), sculptor who worked in Speyer for decades. Speyer honor: Gottfried-Renn-Weg
• Conrad von Bolanden (1828–1920), Catholic priest and writer
• Wilhelm Metz (1828–1888), drawing teacher, composer
• Hippolyt August Schaufert (1834–1872), poet
• Eugen Jäger (1842–1926), publisher and journalist, member of the Bavarian State Parliament and the German Reichstag
• Otto Hörmann von Hörbach (1848–1923), physician
• Joseph Niedhammer (1851–1908), composer and cathedral music director
• Lukas Grünenwald (1858–1937), educator, historian
• Barbara Pfister (1867–1909), stigmatized, grave as a pilgrimage site in the main cemetery
• Maria Joseph Weber (1887–1949), father, writer, long-time superior of the St. Guido Mission Convict
• Edith Stein (1891–1942), saint of the Catholic Church, worked as a teacher in Speyer

20th century

• Elisabeth Alschner (1929–1997), worker, trade unionist and local politician in Speyer
• Helmut Kohl (1930–2017), Federal Chancellor, patron and friend of the city and the cathedral, buried in the old cemetery
• Bernd Benedix (1943–2013), sculptor
• Norbert Becker (* 1949), director of KABS Speyer, university professor and president of the World Mosquito Control Association
• Frank-Joachim Grossmann (* 1958), graphic designer and artist
• Clemens Jöckle (1950–2014), art historian, head of the Speyer Municipal Gallery
• Bernhard Linvers , holder of the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Günter Flory , holder of the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Georg Pfeifenroth , holder of the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Hans-Joachim Spengler , holder of the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Georg Daughtermann , holder of the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate